Public hospitals in Hong Kong may stop admitting mainland mothers seeking to deliver their child in the territory to keep more resources for the use of local women. more ›

A controversial bill that is being proposed in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region will, if passed, make real-name HIV testing and disclosure compulsory. Under the regulation, which is still in draft form, HIV-positive patients would have to  inform their partners of their status within three days of receiving test results, failing which this would be done by health workers. more ›

Nicola Davison of The Guardian reports on the upswing in business that the surrogate industry is expecting in the Year of the Dragon. She speaks to a woman surnamed Gao, a surrogate mother on the hunt for the next infertile couple seeking a womb: more ›

A 7.4kg (15.5lb) boy born to a 29-year-old woman in Xinxiang, Henan province is now officially the heaviest baby in the history of China. Both mom and child are fine. The world record for heaviest baby was a 10.8kg baby born in Ohio in 1879. more ›

In a bid to boost the capital's blood supplies, Beijing Municipal Health Bureau has announced that the amount of blood university students donate will affect their academic grades. Supplies have been critically low since last winter, partially due to public mistrust caused by the Guo Meimei scandal. more ›

Hainan province's recent decision to build a 1.28million RMB gold toilet may have seemed like a logical, future-proof investment at the time, but the latest health findings favour traditional toilets, suggesting that squatting is actually better for your health. The science is explained on the website Slate: more ›

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A popular American English teacher has been helped out with her medical bills by her students and former colleauges at Xiamen University, after she made notice her struggle with Parkinson was financially and mentally engraving on her too heavily. more ›

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A man has passed away in Shenzhen a week after being admitted to the hospital for bird flu. This is said to be the first bird flu fatality since 2010: more ›

How do you damage the reputation of one of the nation's top universities and its affiliates? Why, by letting stupid interns change the name of your institution's cancer patients to make fun of their terminal illness, of course! The family of a patient at Fudan University's Cancer Center is furious with the institution after receiving a hospital bill that refers to their loved one as "drop dead Zhang." more ›

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Chinese-language edition of a campaign by Action for Aids, Singapore for World Aids Day 2011. more ›

A hepatitis epidemic believed to be caused by intravenous injections has broken out along the Henan-Anhui border. more ›

The most recent Chinese breakthrough in genetics concerns a Shanghai woman who was able to give birth to a healthy girl, despite harboring an inherited genetic disease, thanks to a new screening method that selects and eliminates aberrant gene embryos from test tube babies. more ›

Just in case you were planning on sleeping tonight, reports have surfaced of a 16-year-old teen from Sichuan who, after troubles breathing, found out he had a 4 inch leech living inside of his throat. more ›

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Did you know? Each time you wipe your face (or your ass) here in China, there's a good chance you're giving yourself cancer? Here's the latest edition in our "Everything Causes Cancer" series, via Want China Times: more ›

A small village in eastern Shandong once famed as a "longevity town" is now a "cancer town" after villagers began dying one after the other from cancer in the last three years. The cancer is believed to have been caused by the inhalation of illegally dumped toxic chemicals: more ›

China's quality watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, says that 19 products, including Lipton Tieguanyin (pictured on the right) have been found to contain excessive levels of potentially harmful rare-earth minerals in a random check of 58 oolong products from Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian and Guangdong. Five of these brands are manufactured by Shanghai-based companies and they are: Mingfeng, Jiaranlu, Zhengxiangyuan, Cuiming and Shenxin. more ›

For those of you who still think you're safe outside Beijing, researchers reported yesterday that downtown Shanghai's fog vapor harbors cancer-causing chemicals. Researchers at Fudan University found our fog to contain carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) at levels ranging 0.03 micrograms to 6.67 micrograms per liter. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Friend or Foe album release concert, HEALTH plays a free show if you can get tickets, Wooozy sessions are back with rock from Wuhan, and local grunge on Single's Day! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more. more ›

More horrible news from Foshan's Nanhai district, the exact same area where the double hit-and-run of two-year-old toddler Yueyue made international news last month. Nurses at the city's Nanhai District Red Cross Hospital dumped a newly-born infant in a plastic bag in the toilet, thinking it was dead when it was actually still alive. more ›

A 14-year-old boy is the only pupil studying at a village school near Dandong (丹东) in Liaoning province. His surname is Feng, and he is HIV-positive. He has been suffering from discrimination by his fellow villagers, and was rejected by the local elementary school. However, in the elementary school set up specifically for him, he enjoys complete freedom from discrimination. This is because there are only two people in the school: Feng, who is 14 years old, and Wang Lijun, 63 years old who teaches Feng and plays with him. more ›

A man surnamed Wang living in Qingdao, Shandong Province claims that he has found a worm in a can of Frisolac milk powder imported from Holland. The dealer promises to return the powder and send him another 400g can free. However, when Wang asked for higher compensation, the dealer says it is only possible when the worm is proven to be Dutch. more ›

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A recent test of local milk tea and fresh juice samples conducted by the Shanghai Commission of Consumer Rights and Interests Protection revealed alarmingly high levels of bacteria. Out of 40 specimens, 12 fresh juice samples were found to contain large amounts of some bacteria types while 16 milk tea samples tested positive for high levels of E. coli, a microbe infamous for causing severe diarrhea or lā dùzi, as it is referred to locally. And you thought you only had to stay away from unwashed fruit and tap water. more ›

Tired of unsuspectingly walking out the door on those days where China's atmosphere makes Jupiter's gaseous cloud layer look like a biosphere in Costa Rica? Now with new real-time air quality tracking twitters, sites, and apps (all city-specific), you can monitor the skies without holding your licked finger to the wind, and know exactly which days it might be better to stay in instead of going on that 10 km bike ride. more ›

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Think the RMB25 cut-wash-blow at your local salon is a bargain? Think again. Chinese news reports are now saying that a lot of the shampoo used in hair salons around China are just cheap blends of thickener, fragrance, shampoo powder and water costing between 0.4-1.2 yuan per kilo. In some of the more extreme cases, experts have found the shampoo to contain mercury, sulfur or benzene. This could either damage your hair, cause you to go bald, or even give you cancer. more ›