After the concept of symptoms in traditional Chinese medicine was defined, the classification of symp-toms in traditional Chinese medicine and the characteristics of clinical diagnosis and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine were described .It was suggested that the symptoms in traditional Chinese medicine should be classified into 3 kinds, namely symptoms and signs according to the 4 diagnostic methods, symptoms and signs according to the diagnostic devices, symptoms and signs according to the physical constitutions of patients in order to lay a foun-dation for improving the classification in clinical term system of traditional Chinese medicine.

The standard of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) literature metadata is the technological basis and premise of the TCM resource administration and sharing. This paper studied the TCM literature metadata design condition by defining the object of description and discussing the necessity of TCM literature metadata preliminary. It put forward metadata framework structure and element extension principles so as to carry out the specific design work. In order to enhance the practicability of metadata, two means of expression including system table and metadata dictionary were designed with special provisions on description detail rules of metadata dictionary. The design principle of TCM literature metadata was summarized. The issue of balance between accuracy and entirety was considered in the metadata designing.

Based on computer and network technologies,the information system has grown into an important part for normal operation of hospitals,pushing up the importance of its risk analysis and defense.This article briefly described general methods and processes of risk analysis for information system,brought forward methods of risk classification and level-defense to identify and manage risks effectively,highlighted the importance of risk analysis,after-defense evaluating and tracking.This method is called into play to identify risks exposure of the information system of Beijing Red Cross Blood Center,contributing to a risk response table,developing a sustained improvement process for risk identification,control,appraisal and tracking,with defense carried out in specific system upgrading projects.

The demands for Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)standardization are rising internationally,but the development for TCM intemational standards is confronted with competence.In this context,the authors analyzed the competing status of intemationalized TCM standardization from 3 aspects:1.It is the key point for competition that obtaining leadership in the international organization and dominant position in developing important intemational standards:2.Integrating technical development and intellectual property with intemational standards has been gradually formed;3.Striving to make breakthrough in the development of TCM international standards on the basis of TCM Chinese national standards.The authors recommend that international standards be initiated from TCM service standards.TCM products quality standards and TCM process standards.

Informatics of traditional Chinese medicine is an emerging subject.This dissertation analyzes the connotation and scope of the study of traditional Chinese medicine informatics.Through investigating the demand for personnel talents of Chinese medicine hospital and Information Institute of TCM,we comment on with what theoretical basis and practical abilities the TCM information personnel talents should possess.It also proposes the training mode and optimization measures of TCM Informatics education.

This paper presents a development model of resource information institute from organic integration the institute of information and library.The all data of resources-information institute come from and serve for theoretical research,clinical practice,and scientific research of TCM.Comparing with usual research institute and library,the resource information institute has five dominant positions,which are subjects,scientific researches,resource,professionals and services.

By collecting literatures on apoplexy recorded in"Database of Basic TCM disease"from 2001 to 2005,we statistically analyzed changes on volume of documents,major authors,major journals,and contents of study in these literatures.

Objective To investigate the clinical safety of preoperative lymphatic chemotherapy in the treatment of reetal cancer.Methods The regional and systemic symptoms,postoperatwe stoma healing,haematogenesis.functions of hean,liver and kidney after lymphatic chemotherapy,and the level of CD3+,CD4+,CD8+,CD4+/CD8+,CD(16+56)+in blood 30 minutes before and 48 hours after lymphatic chemotherapv were detected.Results There were no significant effects of lymphatic chemotherapy on the regional and systemic symptoms,postoperative stoma healing,haematogenesis and the functions of heart,liver and kidney.The level of CD4+/CD8+48 hours after lymphatic chemotherapy was significantly increased(t=7.145,P＜0.05),while no significant changes of CD3+,CIM+,CD8+,CD(16+56)+were detected(t=1.782,1.151,1.184,0.955,P＞0.05),when compared with those 30 minutes before lymphatic chemotherapy.Conclusions Preoperative lymphatic chemotherapy is safe and can enhance patients'immunity in early stage.

Objective To evaluate the role of high-dose chemotherapy combined with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in relapsed/refractory marginal zone lymphomas. Methods The transplant database was reviewed retrospectively from Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital identified 12 patients who underwent high-dose chemotherapy combined with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Results Among the twelve patients who underwent autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the median duration of progression-free survival (PFS) was 104 months and the median duration overall survival (OS) was 117 months; 6 patients were still alive with disease-free. Conclusion High-dose chemotherapy combined with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is feasible to patients with relapsed/refractory marginal zone lymphomas, particularly to those insensitive to rituximabincluded combined chemotherapy.

Objective To transform knowledge organization systems (KOS) about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) domain into standardized ontologies, in order to achieve the publication, sharing, and fusion of TCM KOS on the Web, and to further improve the organization and management of TCM knowledge. Methods Simple knowledge organization system (SKOS), a technical specification recommended by World Wide Web Consortium, was used to transform TCM KOS into publishable ontologies on the Web. Results Traditional Chinese medicine language system was transformed into an SKOS ontology, which was stored into a knowledge base that could support SPARQL (standard query language of the Semantic Web) query access, and provide concept, terminology, and knowledge services for Semantic Web applications, such as semantic wiki and semantic search via Web service interfaces. Conclusion This research preliminarily verifies the applicability of SKOS in TCM domain, and exemplifies the process of transforming TCM KOS into SKOS ontologies.