If you are a local Chinese man who has successfully impregnated your wife without any help from the doctor -- there's probably a grand total of five of you reading this, but anyhow -- the Shanghai Sperm Bank wants to study your jism. more ›

Could wolf-berry and ginseng be the answer to the AIDS pandemic or are we dealing with another wild exaggeration? A three-year medical trial at Guang'anmen Hospital, using Chinese medicine to combat HIV/AIDS, has announced a breakthrough in their studies. more ›

Not that we needed another reason to love Chinese mushrooms, but it seems like researchers have figured out that a certain type can shrink cancer tumors by as much as 75%! The Maitake mushroom (or 舞茸蘑菇 wu rong muo gu in Chinese), which is also found in Japanese cooking, managed to help combat bladder and prostate cancer in a study by the British Journal of Urology. Besides cancer, mushrooms also seem to help reduce the risk of heart disease and could be the key to weight loss. That's something worth chewing over. more ›

50 year old Wei Shengchu has loved traditional Chinese medicine since young. On 25 Sept 2002, he read on the papers that a Canadian man had stuck 420 needles on his rigt and left arms and successfully clinched a Guinness record for himself. Wei was very surprised since he thought this was no great feat at all, and 420 was not a particularly big number. According to Wei's calculations, if he worked on both disinfecting the needles and piercing them at the same time, then he would be able to stick between 5-7 needles per minute. If all the needles were to be disinfected first and consecutively pierced, then he would be able to stick in 12 needles each minute. That would be the maximum possible speed. Through repeated research, trial and error, Wei decided to stick the needles in his face and head, working his way up from 1380 needles all the way up to 2100. He began to develop great confidence in his technique and even went in public to perform. more ›

Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming is back in China to consult with traditional Chinese medicine practitioners over his foot injury, AP says, and the prospect of his absence is "sparking a panic" in China. Even without him, Yao says China will finish in twelfth position in the worst case scenario. Also, he is expected to be one of the torch-bearers when the Games finally open this August, but for now Yao can't get anywhere without his crutches. more ›

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One of the nice features on Google Calendar is the ability to add the lunar calendar on top of the western one, which helped us verify that today, Thursday, is indeed the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. more ›

The Crystal Method at Miami's 2005 Winter Conference music festival more ›

The Shanghai Daily recently ran a story about a privately-owned drug rehab center in the city: more ›