Today when people in the West need medical help, they often choose a "new" kind of medicine that is actually quite old.

今天，当西方国家的人们需要医疗帮助时，他们往往会选择一种“新”药物，实际上这种药物已经十分古老。

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Naturopathic medicine (mostly practised in the West; includes diet modification, herbal medicine, acupuncture and massage)

自然疗法（主要是在西方，包括改变饮食习惯、草药、针灸和按摩）

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Attitudes to hygiene in the West have evolved not only with modern medicine and microbiology.

西方对保健学的态度不仅与现代医学还和微生物学的演变有关。

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Meanwhile, fears over radioactive fallout here in the United States, which led to panic buying of an anti-radiation medicine and survival gear in the West, have been allayed for the time being by EPA findings that almost no radiation has survived the 5, 000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean.

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Notable losers in May included BioTime, a regenerative medicine firm run by Michael West, who was one of the key figures in the early days of embryonic stem cell research, and Cytori Therapeutics, which is trying to commercialize stem cells found in fat for breast reconstruction and other uses.

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The four 'em's of e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, e-medicine are old hat to so many in the West.

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