China marks 50 years since Cultural Revolution with silence
Beijing shuts down any mention of the mayhem unleashed by Mao’s declaration of war against the ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’...
View ArticleExperience: I was misdiagnosed with MS
Many people felt I should have been relieved or even ecstatic at this news. But all I could think about were all those years lost to a disease I didn’t have...
View ArticleClinical use of disputed therapy prohibited
China's top health authority reiterated on Thursday that the clinical use of immunotherapy for cancer treatment and public hospitals' subcontracting of departments to private entities are banned. The...
View ArticleChina's Communist Party mouthpiece faces rare criticism
BEIJING: Following the death of a cancer-stricken student, a mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party is facing rare criticism from netizens who accused it of being insensitive for advising...
View ArticleTeam effort (UC Irvine Health System)
(Source: UC Irvine Health System) May 13, 2016 Arlene Kaye Arlene Kaye jabs the button to open the garage door at her suburban Orange County home. Sunlight floods the space, revealing that Kaye has...
View ArticleIgnore diagnostic tests at your own risk
Correct and timely diagnosis is the first step in any medical intervention and forms the first line of defence in global health security. Diagnostic tests influence close to 70% of all healthcare...
View ArticlePost-mortem cancer study goes national (Cancer Research UK)
(Source: Cancer Research UK) Cancer Research UK has today announced a £4 million investment to expand the UK's first ever national study collecting blood and tissue samples from patients who have died...
View ArticleDisease Evolution: The Origins Of Anorexia And How It’s Shaped By Culture And...
There are fashions in diseases, as in anything else. It’s understandable that a new, infectious and life-threatening malady could preoccupy us, such as cholera in the 19th century or Ebola in recent...
View Article'Barefoot doctors' from a small Chinese town now control 80% of China's...
It all started when “doctors” with no proper medical training from the coastal town of Putian in Fujian province posted outdoor ads offering to treat people too embarrassed to go to public hospitals...
View ArticleObesity time bomb keeps ticking
Rising standards of living and increasingly sedentary lifestyles have resulted in China becoming the fattest country in the world, and the problem is just beginning. Wang Xiaodong reports. In November,...
View ArticleChinese government-backed social media users flood Web
BEIJING (AP) - China's government fabricates and posts several hundred million social media posts a year to influence public opinion about the country, according to a new paper by U.S. researchers...
View ArticleLiveBBC Local Live: North Yorkshire fracking decision
Summary Live Reporting By Andrew Barton Get InvolvedGet Involved UpdateContaminated water 'wouldn't do a lot of good' - Farmer's fracking fears Sarah Urwin BBC Radio York News Posted at 09:22 Sarah...
View ArticleSummer sun signals relief from allergies
As temperatures start to climb, the incidence of allergic reactions begins to wane, as Yang Wanli reports. The most difficult part of the year for Zhou Yan ended with the official start of summer on...
View ArticleFarmer Saves Baby Alpaca Who Fell Down Hole (Video)
A farmer in Wisconsin saved a baby alpaca on his farm that fell into a badger hole, and the video is adorable. The now viral video shows farmer John Govin, of Govin's Meats and Berries in Menomonie,...
View ArticleNo country for academics: Chinese crackdown forces intellectuals abroad
Political scientists and law experts flee to America as Beijing’s grip on freedoms in China intensifies under President Xi Jingping...
View ArticleRenowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang dies at age 104
BEIJING (AP) — Renowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang, known for her prolific output and marriage to an equally famous author, died Wednesday at age 104, state media said. Yang died at Peking Union Medical...
View ArticleChinese news agency: Taiwan's leader is radical because she is single
Opinion piece says Tsai Ing-wen has an ‘emotional, personalised’ style because she does not have a husband and children...
View ArticleFarmer demands compensation after wrong AIDS diagnosis
ZHENGZHOU - A farmer in central China's Henan Province is seeking 2 million yuan (about 300,000 U.S. dollars) in compensation after he was wrongly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Yang Shoufa, 53, from...
View ArticleChinese kids who climb cliffside ladder to get stairs
Beijing — Just to get home from school, they climb more than 2,500 feet toward the sky — on a ladder made of bamboo and secured to a sheer cliff face. After pictures surfaced of the challenging trek...
View ArticleModi has betrayed farmers: Moghe
Yavatmal: The Narendra Modi-led NDA government has completed two years in power. But he has betrayed the farmers across the country, alleged the former social justice minister Shivajirao Moghe in a...
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