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Tag Archives: medicine
An environmental protection association, a pyramid scheme, and a 5,000-RMB miracle pill
The Shenzhen Evening News reports on a fake wonder-drug that’s being used to attract applicants to a pyramid scheme.
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged health care, medicine, scams, Shenzhen Evening News
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Chicken blood injections and other health crazes
Zhang Wuben wasn’t the first purveyor of peculiar miracle cures. In the mid-20th Century, Chinese citizens endured fads of chicken blood injections, kombucha, water, and hand-waving.
Posted in Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged @classic, Cultural Revolution, history, medicine, miracle cures, pseudoscience, Yu Changshi, Zhang Wuben
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China’s private healthcare racket
Why is the price of private healthcare in China rising at 3,000 per cent a year, and how long will the private clinics be able to get away with it for?
Posted in Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged clinics, healthcare, hospitals, medicine
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Zhang Wuben and the traditional Chinese medicine racket
How diet guru Zhang Wuben, a laid-off worker made himself a Chinese medicine doctor and then was denounced as a fraud.
Posted in Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged care, health, medicine, scams, Zhang Wuben
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A doctor who prescribes beans and eggplant as cure-alls
Zhang Wuben charges 2,000 RMB for a consult and prescribes mung beans, eggplant, and daikon. Now he’s being exposed as a fraud in the Chinese press.
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged eggplant, medicine, mung beans, quacks, The Beijing News, Yanzhao Seniors News, Zhang Wuben
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Diet treatment to blame for patient’s sudden death?
City Evening News: A patient’s sudden death during a course of diet treatment raised question about nature healing.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged City Evening News, lawsuit, medical, medicine
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Home dialysis cooperative shut down in Beijing’s Tongzhou District
Beijing Times: The government busted a group of renal patients who pooled resources to set up their own dialysis machine.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Beijing Times, dialysis, government, kidney disease, medicine
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Dentist arrested as government cracks down on medical quacks
Beijing Times: A dentist was arrested yesterday in Beijing, as the government upgraded its effort to crack down on unlicensed doctors.
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Tagged Beijing Times, medicine, quack
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A medical scam’s willing participants
From Oriental Outlook, a personal account by a doctor of patients shilling for bad medicine. Also, a Legal Report episode on how commercials are faked.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Media and Advertising, Media regulation, TV
Tagged @classic, fake ads, Legal Report, medicine, Oriental Outlook, SARFT
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It only matters what the machine thinks: getting diagnosed in a Chinese hospital
On July 20 The Beijing News printed a reader comment about the kind of medical service they received when they paid a visit to the ophthalmologist.
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