According to statistics, in the period between period of 1999 and 2003 there were nearly 30,000 cases of heart attack and sudden cardiac death due to Vioxx usage. In 2000 there was a study which showed evidence that these medications cause increased heart rate and are associated with heart attack and strokes. FDA, Merck and other pharmaceutical companies, however, remained silent. According to another study published in Lancet, NSAID drugs usage can double the risk of heart a

Marta Hanson (TC) : I’m sure I’m not the only one surprised by the announcement that half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinehas gone to a researcher who spent her entire career researching traditional Chinese medicine. Based at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing (now the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences) since 1965, scientist Youyou Tu, her colleagues, and home institution may well be just as stunned today as I am. Being gra