Category: Health Care

Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer said it expects to increase sales in China at more than 25% a year as it takes advantage of stronger intellectual property right protection and a population increasingly suffering from the cardiovascular diseases and diabetes seen in developed countries, the Wall Street Journal reported. Allan Gabor, Pfizer’s regional president of North Asia […]

 Source: China Daily 

Zhang Lin, a white-collar worker in Beijing, on potential H1N1 cover-ups: "These days, rumors abound about the pandemic, such as someone losing their hearing because of the disease or someone dying because of the vaccine. I want to know more about these deaths to help me decide whether I should get an H1N1 flu shot […]

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame Australia on self-harming, internet-addicted teens in Guangdong: "In recent years, with the greater availability of the internet in most Asian countries, internet addiction has become an increasing mental problem among adolescents…. Many studies have reported associations between internet addiction, psychiatric symptoms and depression among adolescents.”

John Langenbrunner, a World Bank health economist in Beijing, on healthcare spending: "People are paying too much out of their pockets for health care. Many are becoming impoverished in the process. The level of dissatisfaction, at the local level, is very high and the government is responding to this."