Category: Health Care

A Chinese company has halted production of an intravenous fluid that may have made 12 children ill in the eastern city of Fuzhou, Bloomberg reported. Zhejiang Juneng Rosi Pharmaceutical withdrew the glucose product while it investigates, according to a statement from parent company Asia Resources Holdings. Initial checks on the intravenous fluid indicate that it […]

China’s health system faces a funding crisis, with the average cost of a single hospital admission almost equivalent to annual per capita income, the Financial Times reported, citing a report published in the medical journal The Lancet. The report found that the average cost of a single hospital admission was more than twice the average […]

In the latest effort to combat the tainted milk scandal that killed four babies, China has recalled all milk and milk powder more than a month old, AP reported. Meanwhile, a 2-year-old boy in Hong Kong has developed kidney stones after consuming contaminated products, bringing the number of sickened children there to eight. State media […]

China has suspended the sale and use of an injectable herbal remedy after three people died and three others suffered adverse reactions, AP reported. The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said the six people suffered "serious ill effects" after being injected at a Yunnan hospital with an extract from an herb called Ciwujia made […]