Integrating modern and traditional medicine requires breaking down the legal and regulatory barriers that disadvantage the poor.

Traditional and modern medicine have much to offer each other despite their differences. Priya Shetty assesses an uneasy relationship.

The barriers to mainstream medical approval are great but some traditional treatments are finding new routes to acceptance, finds Yojana Sharma.

Traditional medical cultures need a true partnership with modern medicine, say Bhushan Patwardhan, Gerard Bodeker and Darshan Shankar.

How can modern drug discovery methods enhance the value of African traditional medicines, asks South African drug expert Kelly Chibale.

Local health needs should be paramount in efforts to merge traditional and modern medicine, says Oswaldo Salaverry.

It's time to consign to history the idea that traditional medical systems have nothing to offer modern medical science, says Antony Taubman of the World Trade Organization.