The Children of China’s Cancer Slum
With pharmaceutical price gouging in the news thanks to the arrest of Turing Pharmaceutials CEO...
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China Suffers 27% of World Cancer Deaths
At Bloomberg Christina Larson reports on the dramatic rise of cancer in China: A recent report...
China Bans Officials From Smoking in Public
Xinhua reports that China’s State Council and the Party’s Central Committee have...
China Eyes Public Smoking Ban
As one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen a twofold...
Tobacco Production Doubled in China
Looking to a recent report by the Research Center for Health Development [zh], the Global Times...
Lung Cancer Experts Call for Action on Tobacco
Over the weekend, experts at the annual North-South Lung Cancer Summit in Beijing warned that...
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....
The Real Danger in China’s Mines
Along with the high accident rate in coal mine operation, the hidden danger of lung-related disease is making coal mining in China a deadly profession. From C. Custer, L. Li and Jonathan Silin at 2non: Hao, who asked that he be...
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...
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