Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine has put a spotlight on traditional medicine. Photos: AFP
Tu Youyou is the first woman to have won the Nobel Prize for medicine in China for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a traditional herb. However, even before collecting the award a debate has sparked.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners say that she is Westernising age-old cures, while the Nobel committee wants to be clear that the award is for her work and not the effectiveness of traditional medicine.
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