5. Conclusions and outlook
As a new discipline, what people need to understand about combinatorial biomedicine is “5W1H”, that is, “What combination? When to combine? Where to combine? Who will combine? Why combination? And how to combine it?” For example, here is The Book of Health in the new era, the author’s updated working fruit (Figure 1). In fact, not only social sciences need to be combined, but also natural sciences need to be combined even more. In real world, people are intentionally or unintentionally doing related combinatorial works. Thus, it is time to propose and establish this novel discipline due to obvious advantages in screening, diagnosis, treatments, prevention and rehabilitation of both mNCDs and infectious diseases. And the author’s innovative “TCM Hot Pot” theory is a classical hallmark of combinatorial biomedicine.
Based on the previous works in the last decades, the author has already developed and proposed in time a novel discipline – combinatorial biomedicine. A series of classical examples confirmed that combinatorial biomedicine has a number of obvious advantages in screening, diagnosis, treatments, prevention and rehabilitation of both mNCDs (such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases) and mIDs (such as AIDS, Helicobacter pylori infection, and COVID-19), and will be helpful in the development of life science, biology and medicine, in particular the pandemic and post-COVID-19 era.