Traditional Chinese medicine eyes European market
A leading pharmaceutical firm that produces traditional Chinese medicine in the northwestern Gansu Province is hoping to make Sweden its gateway to the European Union market after a landmark EU...
View ArticleHong Kong Recalls Proprietary Chinese medicine “Cousedin Cold &Cough Relief Cap”
On November 4, 2010 Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) today urged members of the public not to buy or use a proprietary Chinese medicine (pCm) called “Cousedin Cold & Cough Relief Cap”, as it was...
View ArticleAcupuncture and Unesco List
BEIJING – ACUPUNCTURE and Peking Opera have been selected as candidates for Unesco intangible cultural heritage status. ‘That’s significant, particularly for acupuncture, which is widely practiced in...
View ArticleHealth official called “pig foot director”
LANZHOU/BEIJING – A local official in Northwest China’s Gansu province has triggered a furious dispute among the public after promoting traditional Chinese medicine on his microblog. Liu Weizhong, 54,...
View ArticlePhone App That Predicts Health Risk Using A Picture Of Your Tongue
For over 5,000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has claimed to be able to predict the state of your inner health (or ‘zheng’) simply by looking at your tongue. Now a smartphone app that...
View ArticleChina reports H7N9 bird flu cases
• Two infections of H7N9 bird flu, involving one death, were reported in east China’s Zhejiang Province. • The total number of infected people in China has been brought to nine, local authorities said....
View ArticleChina Bird Flu: H7N9 Causes Fourth Death
BEIJING — A middle-aged man who transported poultry for a living and another unidentified person have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll to five among 14 confirmed cases in...
View ArticleChina reports 5th death from H7N9 bird flu
SHANGHAI, April 4 (Xinhua) — Authorities in Shanghai said Thursday night that another person has died from H7N9 bird flu, bringing the death toll from the new deadly strain to five around the country....
View ArticleChina health officials’ TCM advice in flu fight draws fire
Mainland health officials have been criticised by some doctors for suggesting traditional Chinese medicine and other alternative treatments to help ward off bird flu as the months-long process of...
View ArticleBreakthrough in bird flu investigation with virus found at Shanghai market
Mainland authorities have made a breakthrough in their investigation of the H7N9 bird flu virus, which has killed two more people, finding it in pigeon samples at a Shanghai market. Authorities in the...
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