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Category Archives: Health care and pharmaceuticals
Massive over-use of antibiotics in the media
Chinese media focus on a serious health hazard that should be preventable: the wild over-use of antibiotics.
Posted in Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged antibiotics, drugs, healthcare, hospitals, pharmaceuticals
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Bubonic plague in China
New research points to China as the origins of medieval outbreaks of bubonic plague, and an interview with Dr Yu Dongzheng, director of animal to human infectious diseases at the National Centre for Disease Control in Beijing:
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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It’s summer — time to get circumcised!
Parents in Hangzhou are having their sons circumcised to beat the heat.
Posted in Health care and pharmaceuticals, Newspapers
Tagged circumcision, Hangzhou, Metropolitan Express
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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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Hospital holds newborn hostage when parents can’t pay their bill
The Dongguan Maternal & Child Healthcare Hospital has held a newborn hostage for three months because his parents can’t pay their 39,299.75 RMB maternity bill.
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged Dongguan Times, hospitals, medical care
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