Until recently, within living memory, the situation was the same in both the United States and Britain. Smoking was accepted as being a bad thing. On the other hand, it brought serious money into the goverrnment of the day. That much of this money was later expended on medical care was not brought into the […]
Category: Health Care
A dog is suspected of being the source of a pneumonic plague outbreak in the remote town of Ziketan in Qinghai province, AFP reported, citing state media. The dog was thought to have been owned by the initial victim, a 32-year-old herdsman. Professor Wang Hu, director of the Qinghai disease control bureau said the dog […]
A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwestern China’s Qinghai province and authorities have quarantined a town to prevent further infection, Bloomberg reported, citing state media. The 37-year-old man living in in Ziketan in eastern Qinghai province was a neigbor of the first person to have died of pneumonic plague. Ten other people, […]
Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups. (The mouse in our illustration is NOT one of them. Pretty damn cute, though.) They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells — cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic […]
China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) has come "a long way" since its launch years ago, but further medium- and long-term reforms are needed in order to improve health care in rural China, according to the World Bank. "The amount of money going into the scheme, the amount of people covered in the scheme […]