Baidu Probe Exposes Chaos of China’s Medical System
On Monday, Chinese authorities launched an investigation into Baidu’s unethical search...
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LatestMinitrue: Inner Workings of Shady Medical Business [Updated]
Tweeter @beidaijin has shared the following propaganda directive, also posted to CDT Chinese: #Ban...
Badiucao (巴丢草): Baiduing “How to Treat The Party”
Badiucao responds to the death of college student Wei Zexi, who died of cancer in April after...
Hundreds Ill at “Toxic School” Near Chemical Plants
According to state television broadcaster CCTV, hundreds of students at Changzhou Foreign...
The Children of China’s Cancer Slum
With pharmaceutical price gouging in the news thanks to the arrest of Turing Pharmaceutials CEO...
Will Pollution Drive Political Change?
As air quality in China continues to deteriorate, the government is trying various solutions to...
China’s Poisonous Waterways
Writer Sheng Keyi reflects on her return trips home to the once “sweet and sparkling”...
China Suffers 27% of World Cancer Deaths
At Bloomberg Christina Larson reports on the dramatic rise of cancer in China: A recent report...
Abandoned Steel Mills Threaten Public Health
Falling prices, weak demand and mounting debt in China’s steel industry have led to a series of closures and mergers in recent years, leaving many mills abandoned. At China Dialogue, Gao Shengke reports that health risks...
Pollution Leading to Higher Cancer Rates in China
China’s rapid development is creating a number of well-documented environmental problems, which in turn are leading to elevated cancer rates, especially in rural regions. Al Jazeera reports: While rising cancer rates are...
China’s Expanding Life Spans—and Waistlines
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson describes a paper from the latest, China-themed issue of The Lancet medical journal, which shows that China’s health problems increasingly resemble those of developed countries....
Inside China’s “Cancer Villages”
The Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman talks to residents of some of China’s hundreds of “cancer villages” about the obstacles to their efforts to seek redress: Yanglingang residents count their home as one of...
The Beijing Patient: How Smog Changed Two Lives
Cancer is now the primary cause of death in Beijing, and air pollution is a major factor in this grim reality. The capital’s dangerous smog caused an “airpocalypse” this January, leading one public health expert to call the...
Data: Cancer Beijing’s Biggest Killer
Data released by Beijing’s Cancer Prevention and Control Research Office indicates that cancer is the leading cause of death in China’s capital, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s Christina Larson: Exposure...
Cancer in China Influenced by Pollution, Poverty
The Xinhua News Agency looks at the different patterns of cancer treatment in China versus the west, due to China’s notorious environmental pollution and lack of adequate medical insurance: While the incidence rate of...
A Cancer Cycle, From Here to China
An aniline spill in Shanxi on New Year’s Eve caused extended disruption of water supplies in the downstream Hebei city of Handan earlier this month. Public anger at the authorities’ five-day cover-up then led to four...
The Dark Side of the Boom
Jonathan Watts reports for the Guardian (via chinadialogue): Since last year, there has been an explosion of lead poisoning cases close to smelting plants. Studies have shown that communities that recycle electronic waste are...
Coal Is Linked to Cancer in China Province
Nonsmoking women in one region of Yunnan Province die from lung cancer at a higher rate than anywhere else in the world. The New York Times reports: A group of scientists now say they have a possible explanation: the burning of...
