The Chinese public has been transfixed and outraged by news of a decade-long scheme involving the theft and illegal sale of thousands of corpses for use as bone-graft raw material in dental procedures. A document leaked last...
The reported theft and illegal sale of thousands of human corpses for use as raw material in bone graft procedures has shocked the Chinese public and sparked a breathtaking wave of censorship online. Last Thursday, a Beijing...
As state media rings with Xi Jinping’s pronouncement that “persistence is victory” in Shanghai’s fight against Omicron—now sometimes referred to as “The Battle to Protect Shanghai”—a different martial metaphor reigns on social...
Last November, He Jiankui, a researcher at Shenzhen’s Southern University of Science and Technology, announced that he had successfully used the CRISPR-CaS9 genome-editing tool to alter the embryos of twin girls to make them...
At The Diplomat, Cholpon Orozobekova of the the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations describes a...
On Monday, Chinese authorities launched an investigation into Baidu’s unethical search...
Tweeter @beidaijin has shared the following propaganda directive, also posted to CDT Chinese: #Ban...
Badiucao responds to the death of college student Wei Zexi, who died of cancer in April after...
Chinese scientists’ creation of a pair of genetically modified long-tailed macaques named...
In August, Shaanxi obstetrician Zhang Shuxia was accused of selling a newborn child after...
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter visits BGI Shenzhen, the world’s largest sequencer of...
Danone, the French food manufacturer, has been accused of bribing Chinese doctors to provide...
A Greenpeace investigation of Chinese herbal products (PDF) reveals that high concentrations of pesticides are polluting the environment and making China’s traditional medicine harmful to human health. From Sue-Lin Wong...
At Aeon Magazine, James Palmer describes the political, economic and cultural drives behind the $60 billion Traditional Chinese Medicine industry in China and Hong Kong, and its uneasy relationship with science and modern...
At The Wall Street Journal, Gautam Naik details one of Chinese gene-sequencing firm BGI’s current projects: a search for the genetic roots of exceptional intelligence, conducted together with Robert Plomin at King’s...
A report by well-known investigative journalist Wang Keqin has shed light on the mishandling of vaccines which has rendered them ineffective or dangerous. From the New York Times: Mr. Chen said that the center, which is part of...
Translated by CDT from China News Agency: China’s Ministry of Health and Chinese Medicine Administration have jointly issued a regulation that aims to set up a evaluation system to tally the medical ethics of doctors in various hospitals and other health care providers in the country. There are three components in the evaluation regime: self-assessment, […]
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