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BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Health announced Wednesday it has ordered medical institutions to be on alert against the multi-drug resistant bacteria NDM-1. The ministry has ordered all medical institutions across China t...

GUANGZHOU, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- For smoking in offices or rooms of a Karaoke TV entertainment center, one could face a fine of 50 yuan, the cost of buying four to five packs of mid-range cigarettes in China. Proprietors or operators of these...

HEFEI, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The last of 38 people sickened after a cholera outbreak in an east China county has been discharged from hospital, local health authorities said Wednesday. By Tuesday, no new cholera cases had been reported in Men...

BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese health official said Tuesday that the vaccine to be used in an upcoming national measles-elimination campaign is safe and second-time inoculations of children will cause no adverse effect for those who...

  A boy on a diet eats mainly vegetables and fruit at a summer camp for overweight children in Shanghai designed for them to lose weight. (Photo source: China Daily) BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- More than one third of school-age childre...

      Pillows infused with Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs have seen a spike in sales at Beijing bedding shops and drugstores during the summer. (Source: China Daily/Wang Jing) by Yang Wanli BEIJING, Sep. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Forget purch...

DHAKA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- With 32 new cases detected in the last 24 hours, total 479 people have been confirmed to be infected by anthrax until Thursday. Bangladesh's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) under th...

BRASILIA, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO)released on Wednesday a report urging the Brazilian government to meet funding needs of its public health system. According to the document, up to 1988, half of Brazilians did...

GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Guatemalan Health Ministry said on Tuesday that 25 people in the country died of dengue this year. There have been 11,800 possible cases reported, of which 1,925 were confirmed and 123 were serious c...

THE HAGUE, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The ability to switch from speed to accuracy in perceptual decision making is determined by the strength of the connection between two brain areas, an international team said in the latest issue of Proceeding...