Tibetan medicine popular among Chinese too: Dalai LamaNovember 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tibetan medicine is sought after the world over now and even officials in Communist China are keen followers of the system of treatment, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said here Saturday. There is a lot of interest in Tibetan medicine all over the world...
Dalia Lama plays down rumours of ill health on Italy tripNovember 18th, 2009 ROME - The Dalai Lama Wednesday denied reports that he is suffering from cancer, but admitted that his eventual passing would represent a blow for the Tibetan cause. "The Tibetan people's respect towards me is very strong and my death would be a setback," the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader said whilst in Italy on a trip.
As Obama visits China, Chinese-Americans see inseparable destinies of East and WestNovember 15th, 2009 more images
more imagesChinese-Americans see Obama's trip in unique lightAs President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West. They have as many different feelings about their ancestral home — hope, indifference, pride, pain — as there are characters in the Chinese language.
China's health ministry investigating deaths of 2 people vaccinated for swine fluNovember 13th, 2009 more images
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China investigates 2 deaths after flu vaccinations
BEIJING — Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated. The country's health ministry reported the deaths late Friday on its Web site — the first time China has announced deaths with potential links to the Chinese-made swine flu vaccine.
Manipal hospital under fresh attack in NepalNovember 5th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The Manipal Teaching Hospital, run by India's Manipal Group as a joint venture with the Nepal government, has come under fresh attack from locals, causing its outdoor unit for patients to be closed indefinitely. The 700-bed hospital in Pokhara, established in 1998 under the Manipal College of Medical Sciences, has shut down its outdoor services after two of its doctors were assaulted Tuesday over the death of a patient and local groups began demanding compensation.
More than 3.78 mn Chinese people vaccinated against swine fluNovember 1st, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese health ministry said Sunday that more than 3.78 million people in the country have been vaccinated against swine flu as of Saturday with no reports of serious adverse reaction. The vaccination campaign has been launched across the country except in Chongqing municipality and provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Sichuan, a Xinhua report quoted health ministry sources as saying.
A Chinese man who is supremely fit - at 91October 21st, 2009 BEIJING - Xiao Qinglian can do handstands with both legs over his shoulder while picking up a coin with his mouth. The feat is remarkable as Xiao is 91-years-old.
No "serious adverse reaction" from China-made swine flu vaccine: Health MinisterSeptember 28th, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu has said that no "serious adverse reaction" has been reported from people being immunized with the China-made A/H1N1 flu vaccine. Zhu's comments follow reports of Beijing announcing 14 cases of adverse reaction out of 39,000 residents, who were inoculated with the vaccine.
About 39,000 given swine flu vaccine shots in ChinaSeptember 23rd, 2009 BEIJING - In their bid to control the fast spreading swine flu epidemic, authorities in China have so far administered H1N1 vaccine shots to more than 39,000 people, an epidemic control expert said Wednesday. Liang Xiaofeng, director of the immunization centre under the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said as of Tuesday only 14 people developed side effects after taking the vaccine shots.
When Chinese surgeons 'forgot' to operate on man in OTSeptember 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese patient, who was given an anaesthetic injection and taken into the operation theatre for a surgery, was wheeled back into his room only to find out that the doctors "forgot" to operate on him. Cao Longbao was to undergo a surgery to get three polypi removed from his intestines at a local hospital in Shanghai.
Chinese police warn parents of children sickened by tainted milk from marking anniversarySeptember 10th, 2009 China tainted milk parents warned against meetingBEIJING — Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said Thursday. Milk powder contaminated with an industrial chemical killed at least six babies and sickened nearly 300,000 others with painful kidney stones — making it one of China's worst food safety scandals.
China becomes first country to be ready with H1N1 vaccineSeptember 9th, 2009 BEIJING - With the release of first batch of the H1N1 vaccine, the Chinese Health Ministry has announced the country's vaccination plan against the influenza pandemic. China has become the first country in the world to be ready with a vaccine.
China's H1N1 cases will double to 10,000 soon, says expertSeptember 7th, 2009 BEIJING - With the surfacing of 100 new H1N1 cases since Friday, Chinese health experts have warned that the total cases nationwide will soon double to 10,000, as the peak of the outbreak has begun. "The recent clusters of school outbreaks are just the start of the peak season, which will feature widespread infections.
192 children fall prey to food poisoning in CrimeaSeptember 6th, 2009 SIMFEROPOL - The number of children hit by food poisoning in Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has risen to 192, health authorities said Sunday. "As of 8.00 a.m.
China's Sinovac gets world's first swine flu vaccine production licenseSeptember 3rd, 2009 BEIJING - China Thursday approved a swine flu vaccine produced by the domestic pharmaceutical company Sinovac, making it the first to get a production license in the global race. The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) issued the license for Sinovac's vaccine called Panflu.1 Thursday, after it passed SFDA's experts evaluation Aug 31.
