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TCM gets boost from local health authorities

LOCAL health authorities plan to issue an official guide to traditional Chinese medicine experts and their specialities, giving people who seek TCM treatments a better idea of where to go and whom to consult. The guide is part of a larger effort to ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  23 Nov 2009

Middle school online chatters provide shocks

A WIDE-RANGING study of middle school students across China's mainland involving online friendships has thrown up some alarming statistics. For example, only 6 percent of middle school students said making online friends enhanced their studies, ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  22 Nov 2009

Natural history gets new look

VISITORS to the new Shanghai Natural History Museum will be able to witness scientists at work in open laboratories to gain better understanding of how science works, officials said yesterday. That's not the only new thing planned for the museum, ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  22 Nov 2009

6-year-old critical as city posts 1st serious child case of H1N1

THE Shanghai Health Bureau reported the city's fourth serious case of swine flu yesterday -- and the first child to be severely stricken by the disease. The 6-year-old boy was being treated last night at the Children's Hospital of Fudan University, ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  20 Nov 2009

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Diabetes therapy hailed

MORE than 30 patients with Type 1 diabetes have been able to survive without insulin shots for months -- over a year, in one case -- thanks to a novel therapy of transplanting patients' own blood stem cells, along with applying other immunity ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  18 Nov 2009

City reports 3rd serious H1N1 case

SHANGHAI yesterday announced its third serious case of swine flu - a 43-year-old man who was in stable condition at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. The patient, a local resident, was being treated last night in a negative-pressure ward ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  17 Nov 2009

Shanghai seen as big CO2 producer

TOTAL carbon emission generated by Shanghai in one year is nearly double that of Sydney and triple that of Tokyo, according to recent research on climate change in Asia and major Pacific cities. With industry generating more than 60 percent of local ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  16 Nov 2009

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City prepares for seriously ill swine-flu patients

EXPERTS from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, a designated hospital for swine-flu treatment, expect an increase in patients seriously sickened by the virus. Their fears come as the number of swine-flu cases balloons in both China and many ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  15 Nov 2009

Diabetes takes hold in teenagers

SHANGHAI residents as young as 14 are now at risk of diabetes, once a disease of the middle-aged, as a lifestyle of rich foods and scant exercise becomes more widespread, medical experts said. "Previously, 90 percent of children with diabetes were ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  15 Nov 2009

High alert: It's disease season

SHANGHAI has entered the key period for swine flu, seasonal flu and other infectious diseases, and medical authorities need to be on high alert to head off possibly deadly outbreaks, the Shanghai Health Bureau said yesterday. So far, no local deaths ...

From CAI WENJUN, Shanghai Daily,  13 Nov 2009

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