Scorpions and cockroaches weren’t necessarily part of the picture when Dr. Eric Peterson imagined the benefits of developing relationships with his Chinese counterparts. The senior associate dean for clinical research at UT Southwestern Medical Center had been looking to expand the reach of large trials he was leading by recruiting patients and researchers in what was then the world’s most populous country.He hadn’t considered that Chinese physicians might come to him hoping to flip the script. In 2019, a group of cardiologists contacted Peterson, wanting to test a traditional Chinese medication using Western methodology. Led by Dr. Yuejin Yang, they had long prescribed tongxinluo—the word’s meaning translates as “to open the network of the heart”—to cardiac patients who had suffered a stroke or were experiencing…
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