For the past several months, China’s State Council Information Office has been hosting a series of press conferences intended to showcase the accomplishments of various government ministries and provincial-level...
In 2009, Taiwan was granted observer status at the United Nation’s World Health Assembly...
In 2013, after years of policy adjustment and the conclusion of a pilot program, China began an...
The New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports that former deputy health minister Dr. Huang...
After years of criticism from international health and human rights groups for its reliance on...
Bloomberg reports that China’s Ministry of Health will soon launch a national campaign...
Overuse of antibiotics on humans and livestock in both the U.S. and China is spurring the...
China has long been criticized by international health and human rights organizations for having...
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
Among the most anticipated policy unveilings at the ongoing Two Sessions is the likely consolidation of some of China’s 27 ministries and countless lower-level government bodies. The State Administration for Radio, Film...
In 2011, human consumption of antibiotics in China was ten times the global average. Because overuse of the drugs can give rise to resistance in the bacteria they target, the Health Ministry has repeatedly promised to cut down...
China’s Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that HIV rates have risen through the first ten months of the year, according to Xinhua News: From January to October, 16,131 new cases of HIV infections among citizens...
A senior health official claimed that China will curb the use executed prisoners as a source of organ transplants while bolstering a volunteer donor program that it hopes will help to limit the much-criticized practice: Nearly...
The practice of harvesting transplant organs from executed prisoners is one of China’s most infamous human rights violations. In March, vice health minister Huang Jiefu announced that it would soon be phased out in favour...
As China tightens food safety regulations amid various accusations, including the discovery of a cancer-causing toxin in baby formula, China is now investigating claims that genetically-modified ‘Golden Rice’ was tested on...
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
“Environmental changes” in China contributed to a 70% rise in birth defects between 1996 and 2010, from 0.88% to 1.49%, according to China Radio International: Congenital heart disease, hyperdactylism, cleft lip with...
A new survey finds that suicide remains the leading cause of death among young Chinese. The survey, released by the state center for disease control and the Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, showed that suicide was the fifth leading...
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