Category: Health Care

China reported its first cases of Asian bird flu over the Chinese New Year holiday on a duck farm in the country's southern Guangxi province. Officials were also investigating a suspected outbreak at a duck farm in Wugang city, Hunan province. There was no immediate evidence that the virus had crossed over into humans. The […]

A 32-year-old television producer in Guangzhou has become the first confirmed SARS patient in China since the epidemic ended last June. No other suspected or confirmed SARS cases have been reported on the mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao and the confirmed patient appears to be on his way to recovery, China's Ministry of Health […]

Premier Wen Jiabao met with AIDS patients in a Beijing hospital to mark World AIDS day. It is the first publicly documented instance in which a top-ranking Chinese official has visited with Chinese AIDS patients. The visit underscores the recent increase in attention paid to HIV/AIDS by the Chinese government. China is estimated to have […]

Chinese pharmaceutical companies are buying up expiring United States drug patents in a bid to accelerate expansion drives. US sellers are usually very wary of expanding into China's market, known for widespread and flagrant intellectual property rights violations, but for a royalty they are increasingly willing to sell expiring patents to Chinese drugmakers. The target […]

Traffic accidents have become the leading cause of accidental death in China as the country experiences spectacular growth in auto sales. According to government statistics, casualties caused by traffic accidents stood at 109,363 in 2002, or 78.5 percent of those killed in all accidents across China.