Clinical Trial of Chinese Herbal Medicine for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)

The Effectiveness of an Empirical Chinese Medicine Formulation for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: an Open Label Clinical Trial
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