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Source: Xinhua Published: November 19, 2011 10:47
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday revoked its approval of Avastin for treating the breast cancer after concluding that the drug has not been shown to be safe and effective for that use.
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Source: Xinhua Published: November 17, 2011 10:32
Supervised exercise was shown to be more effective than stenting or medication for improved walking ability in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a US study reported Wednesday at the 2011 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions meeting.
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Source: Xinhua Published: November 15, 2011 13:55
Stem cells were found in trial treatments powerful in fixing damaged hearts, according to a study presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association Monday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: November 15, 2011 10:34
Vitamin D levels are significantly lower in patients with recurrent inflammatory spinal cord disease, according to a study published online Monday in Archives of Neurology.
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Source: Xinhua Published: November 15, 2011 10:00
Vice Premier Li Keqiang has called for deepening health care reform in a bid to build a health care system that benefits the entire population.
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Source: Global Times Published: November 11, 2011 08:44
It is a gloomy Friday afternoon. A young woman, wrapped in a thick coat walks into a suburban villa. She looks pale. "I'm here to meet a friend," she tells the security guard. Later, the "friend" shows up. He is an ordinary-looking pudgy middle-aged man. But there is nothing ordinary about the way h...
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Source: Global Times Published: November 10, 2011 10:46
Meteorologists have predicted that this winter may be the coldest the world has experienced in a millennium. Therefore be prepared for a particularly harsh next few months in Beijing. The days following New Year could include cold fronts, dramatic temperature drops and heavy snowfall.
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Source: Global Times Published: November 03, 2011 08:30
Wu Junyi is an acupuncturist at a Shanghai TCM hospital. She has just inserted a slim needle into a patient suffering from high blood pressure. Wu tells him to sit for half an hour and moves to the next patient. She has a busy day ahead and most of her patients are seniors. But Wu seems to be part o...
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Source: Published: October 27, 2011 09:30
Although many advances have been made in the screening and treatment of breast cancer in recent years, many questions are still unanswered concerning the cause of the disease. These questions lead to many misunderstandings about breast cancer.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 26, 2011 13:16
The more coffee people consume, the less likely they develop the most common form of skin cancer, a new study suggests, according to media reports Tuesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 26, 2011 10:03
Malaria had killed 64 Cambodians during the first nine months of this year, 22 percent decline from 82 deaths at the same period last year, said health officials on Tuesday.
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Source: Global Times Published: October 24, 2011 08:41
When 66-year-old Xi Lipin recently went to a community hospital in Pudong New Area for a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment, the exam went off without a hitch.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 20, 2011 13:23
The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday called on all governments to keep up sufficient health budgets despite the current economic woes.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 20, 2011 10:38
A Teenager's intelligence is not fixed as usually thought. Instead, it can go through swings in a few years, according to a British study reported online in Nature.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 20, 2011 09:17
A total of 25 people have been killed in 12 US states in a listeria outbreak traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) said Wednesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 19, 2011 15:54
Chinese medical experts have warned that antibiotics have been "heavily overused" at hospitals, which might cause serious side-effects for the health of an entire generation.
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 19, 2011 13:17
Preliminary results from a large-scale Phase III trial of RTS,S show that the malaria vaccine candidate can provide young African children with significant protection against clinical and severe malaria.
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Source: Global Times Published: October 11, 2011 22:24
The study, which covered over 129,000 mothers in Stockholm, Sweden, and their 189,000 children, found that mothers who were very obese, or with a body mass index of 35 and over, had a 61 percent increased risk of their children developing asthma by the time they were between 8 and 10 years of age.
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Source: Global Times Published: October 11, 2011 22:19
Multivitamins false fountain of youth for women, study finds
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Source: Xinhua Published: October 11, 2011 15:41
Debates in the medical field developed on Monday as a US government panel recommended that men of all ages should stop getting prostate cancer blood screenings.
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