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the issue at the last week's press conference announcing the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has generated tension thrill in the stuffy room Stockholm. Referring to the allotment of half the price Pharmacologist Tu Youyou to derive artemisinin antimalarial drug from a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a Chinese reporter asked: "Can we say this is the first time you assign [recognition to] TCM? "" We do not give a price to traditional medicine, "retorted Hans Forssberg, member of the selection committee. traditional medicine was inspired, he said, but the price was for the discovery of a new drug. in fact, the price exposes a widening gap between the current dominant biomedical and alternative therapies such as supporters of TCM, which is based on principles dating back 2,000 years.
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↵ * Shanghai, China
with Hao reporting Xin.
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