Could ancient textbooks be the source of the next medical breakthrough?

Could ancient textbooks be the source of the next medical breakthrough?

"The discovery that won the latest Nobel Prize for Medicine wouldn’t have been much of a revelation to doctors in ancient China. Pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou established that the compound artemisinin could treat malaria in the early 1970s. But the plant the chemical comes from, Artemisia annua L. (sweet wormwood), was used to treat fevers perhaps caused by malaria as early as the third or fourth century CE."

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Migraines were taken more seriously in medieval times – where did we go wrong?

Migraines were taken more seriously in medieval times – where did we go wrong?

"There aren’t many ailments that have maintained so clear a course over so many centuries. And what’s more, looking at the history of migraines reveals that the ailment was actually taken more seriously in the past, something we can learn a lot from today."

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