Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — A drought in northern China that has
limited drinking water to almost 4 million people may also be
making birds more susceptible to the deadly H5N1 avian-flu strain.
The lack of rainfall in Shandong, Shaanxi and other northern
provinces since October causes stress for local fowl, said
, who
specializes in birds. “Any sort of stress would make birds more
susceptible to disease,” she said by e-mail today.
Bird flu killed Read the rest of this entry »

(NYSE: IBM) today announced the launch of a new suite of healthcare
information sharing and analytics technologies at the Guang Dong Hospital
of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which combines the strengths of TCM
and Modern Western Medicine (MWM). The first-of-a-kind system, dubbed CHAS
(Clinical and Health Records Analytics and Sharing), is designed to enable
the sharing of electronic medical records (EMRs) that incorporates TCM and
MWM data Read the rest of this entry »

January 20, 2009 1:45 a.m. EST
Beijing, China (AHN) – Health officials of Hunan Province in central China on Monday said a 16-year-old local boy is critically ill from bird flu infection.
The Hunan provincial health bureau identified the victim only by his family name Wu from the southwestern Guizhou Province. The boy was infected on Jan. 8 and his condition worsened eight days later, bureau officials said.
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BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters) – China will launch a pre-Lunar New Year crackdown on food safety, the Health Ministry said on Monday, focusing on illegal use of additives after a milk scandal last year killed at least six babies and made thousands sick. The campaign would focus on seven provinces, including Hebei where the milk contamination scandal began, ministry spokesman Mao Qunan told a news conference.
“Groups and individuals who have broken the Read the rest of this entry »

(RTTNews) - 
Medical device maker China Medical Technologies, Inc. (CMED:
) Wednesday said it completed the earlier announced sale of its High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or HIFU, tumor therapy system business to one of its major shareholder, Chengxuan International Ltd.
On December 18, Beijing-based China Medical agreed to sell this business to Chengxuan for US$53.5 million in cash. At that time, the company Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese Health Ministry says a second person has died from bird flu in China this year.
The ministry said on its Web site late Sunday that the latest victim was a 27-year-old woman surnamed Zhang who lived in Jinan city of northern China’s Shandong province. She died Saturday.
Earlier this month, a 19-year-old woman died from the bird flu virus in a Beijing hospital after contact with ducks in a market in a neighboring Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will open three offices in China this week in an unprecedented effort to improve the safety of exports headed to America amid recurring product safety scares.
The new FDA offices, which are the first outside of the United States, will increase effectiveness in protecting for American and Chinese consumers, according to the office of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.
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(RTTNews) - 
China Medical Technologies Inc.(CMED:
) announced that its second quarter net income was RMB117.7 million or US$17.3 million, up from RMB77.4 million in the year ago quarter. Net income for the quarter was RMB4.13 per ADS or US$0.61 per ADS, compared to RMB2.88 per ADS in the comp able quarter of last year.
Adjusted net income was RMB154.3 million or US$22.7 million, up from RMB105.1 million in the Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — A woman in China’s far west has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Health Ministry said Saturday, the country’s fourth death from the virus this year as the biggest festive season approaches.
The victim, a 31-year-old woman from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, had been to a live poultry market before she fell ill on Jan. 10, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Xiaoyan, a deputy director Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are slapping a detention order on dozens of imported foods from China.
The Food and Drug Administration says foods made with milk will be held at ports of entry, as a precaution, until independent tests show they are free of the industrial chemical melamine.
The order, which also applies to pet foods, was posted on the FDA Web site Thursday. It’s unusual for the FDA to detain goods from an entire Read the rest of this entry »