Ministry of Health

Briefs, March 13, 2013

13 Mar 2013

Ninety CPPCC delegates from the health sector proposed that the Ministry of Health keep its name, despite being merged with the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), Xinhua...

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Public go potty over ministry's plan to use flies to measure toilet health

24 Feb 2013

According to the draft released on Thursday for public feedback, no more than one fly per square metre will be allowed in toilets inside buildings, while free-standing facilities will be allowed...

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Premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang meets Aids activists

28 Nov 2012

Premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang held an unusual meeting with Aids activists from across the nation, the latest indication that the new leadership aims to project a more proactive and inclusive image...

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China's birth defects blamed on pollution, unhealthy living

11 Nov 2012

ollution and unhealthy lifestyle choices have contributed to a big rise in the incidence of birth defects on the mainland in the past 15 years, experts say. Last year, birth defects were detected...

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Japan vows to reduce fatalities

7 Jul 2010

Japanese authorities have pledged to protect foreign workers better after 27 overseas trainees - 21 of them from the mainland - died from work-related incidents or diseases last year.

6:51AM

City on alert for bird flu as virus kills Hubei woman

5 Jun 2010

Hong Kong is on alert against bird flu after a pregnant woman in Hubei province died of the infectious disease on Thursday.

7:21PM

Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Issues should be resolved before hospital opens

Of all the grand projects for integrating the Pearl River Delta as a single economy, medical services may be among the most difficult. While goodwill is there on both sides, profound differences...

7:20PM

Beijing pushes traditional herbal remedy

Mainland health authorities have released three herbal medicine prescriptions they claim can block and cure swine flu.

6:03AM

20 Shanxi patients infected with hepatitis C

Twenty patients in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, have been infected with hepatitis C after undergoing dialysis treatment in two city hospitals.

8:09AM

19th bird-flu victim on mainland

A man has died of bird flu in Nanning , Guangxi , the Ministry of Health announced yesterday, three days after a similar announcement.

8:07PM

Father of man who died of bird flu has it as well

The father of a bird-flu victim who died in Jiangsu last week was confirmed to have been infected as well, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.

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In Brief

Hospitals told to open up

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