Article in today's (4/3/2012) Wall Street Journal

sbaaronson

On the front page of the Personal Journal today an interesting article on chinese herbs and cancer treatment.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304177104577313821796467932.html?mod=ITP_personaljournal_1

Anonymous

More good news !  What an exciting day !  Thank you and thank you to researchers the likes of Dr. Cheng !

Bucking the Mainstream to Focus on Healing Herbs

When cancer researcher Yung-Chi Cheng set out some 12 years ago to study a traditional Chinese medicine, the initial reaction from colleagues and other experts in the field was "pretty bad," he says.

Colleagues worried that Yale University's Dr. Cheng, a mainstream, respected professor of pharmacology, was taking a professional risk by delving into possible herbal treatments for cancer. It wasn't possible to get separate batches of herbs containing chemical compounds that were consistent, they told him. And there wasn't evidence to support the claim that the herbs had any benefit. "It was rejectionist and narrow-minded," Dr. Cheng says.

LOVE IT !!!