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Healthcare

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Once bitten, twice shy

Local mosquitoes seem immune to foreign sprays
Jul 24, 2015 (WiC 291)

Some say that people with a particular blood type attract more mosquitoes and thus get bitten more. Apparently those with Type O blood are a favourite dining option for the bloodsucking pest. But Joe Conlon, a technical adviser to the American ...

The world’s biggest hospital

Zhengzhou hospital has 7,000 beds and does 196,000 ops annually
Jul 3, 2015 (WiC 288)

During the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty a physician by the name of Hua Tuo made an extraordinary discovery. He found that a mixture containing alcohol (a lot of it) and stramonium (derived from the jimson weed plant) placed his patients ...

New study renews Chinese debate on antibiotics
Jun 26, 2015 (WiC 287)

China’s rivers and lakes are notoriously polluted – heavy metals, industrial effluent and fertilisers all swirl within their waters. But a new study released last week suggests they are also carrying huge amounts of active antibiotics. The ...

Heart rates quicken

Are the authorities now going after foreign medical equipment makers?
May 15, 2015 (WiC 281)

In March 2013 an anonymous insider alleged that GlaxoSmithKline’s research head in China had fabricated data published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine. GSK withdrew the paper and two researchers were sacked. As it turned out, the ...

Foreign pharmaceutical firms are finding it tough going in China
Feb 27, 2015 (WiC 272)

R&D in Chinese medicine has taken some twists and turns throughout the country’s history, not least in the middle of the ninth century. That’s when alchemists experimenting with an elixir for eternal life discovered that a mixture of ...

Guangzhou on Ebola alert
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

In late 2002 Hong Kong media began to report on panic buying of rice vinegar in Guangdong, where a pneumonia-like illness had been spreading. Public anxiety soon spilled over the border, and Hongkongers started stocking up on the vinegar too ...

China’s P4 lab debate

Can a Chinese pharma firm develop a cure for Ebola?
Oct 17, 2014 (WiC 256)

The Chinese call it Sobola. But the deadly disease is better known outside China as Ebola, after one of the earliest diagnosed cases which occurred in an area near Africa’s Ebola River in 1976. According to the World Health Organisation, as ...

“Trust me, I’m a doctor”

Doctors go on strike to protest beatings received from angry patients
Sep 12, 2014 (WiC 252)

Late last month more than 100 medical workers gathered outside Yulong Hospital in Yunnan province. They were protesting at the number of times they’d been attacked by disgruntled patients or their relatives, reports Yunnan Information ...

Opting for America

Rich cancer patients prefer treatment in US
Jul 25, 2014 (WiC 247)

Jack Ma is concerned about cancer. In an article written late last year for the Harvard Business Review he commented on the vast increase in cases of the disease in China. “Cancer – a rare word in conversation 30 years ago – is now an ...

Stiff competition

New players take on Pfizer's drug in China
Jul 11, 2014 (WiC 245)

For Beijing’s policymakers, the fact that a product is ‘Made in China’ is no longer sufficient. Conceived in China is what they really want. And that phrase could be about to take on new meaning, following the expiry of Pfizer’s Viagra ...

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