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Another child with cancer endangered by alternative medicine: Yesterday, I wrote about the winner of the Nobel Prize in
Another child with cancer endangered by alternative medicine: Yesterday, I wrote about the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Youyou Tu, who, after screening 2,000 herbal treatments from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for anti-malaria activity, finally discovered Artemisinin. She isolated it from the plant in which it is found, using modern chemistry to isolate it, purify it, and later chemically…
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