I recently bumped into a colleague I hadn’t seen for a while at a conference. He started asking me about a short trip I had made with a Chinese charity […]
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Zhihua Zheng et al: Changing the perspective of off-label drug use in China
Until recently off-label drug use was controversial in China, as there is no legislation on it. Compared to on-label use, a lack of research for off-label use is deemed a […]
Zhongjie He et al: China’s “Emergency Platinum Ten Minutes” Programme
In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961 by R Adams Cowley, [1] […]
China’s semantic trick with prisoner organs
By Kirk C Allison, Norbert W Paul, Michael E Shapiro, Charl Els, and Huige Li. On 3 December 2014, the director of the China Organ Donation Committee and former vice-minister […]
The challenges China faces as it stops using organs from executed prisoners
From 1 January 2015, China stopped using organs from executed prisoners for transplants. This was announced by Jiefu Huang, China’s former vice minister of health and current head of the Organ […]
Siyi Yu: China is speeding up the opening of the medical service market
Recently, a notification was released by China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission and business supervision department announcing that the establishment of wholly foreign owned hospitals is allowed in seven provinces […]
Deng Luo et al: A call for change for China’s doctors
“Where has the time gone?” was the title of a popular song from China’s 2013 Spring Festival Gala, which went viral after China Central Television broadcast it to billions of viewers. Interestingly, the song’s […]
Ma Zhen-Sheng et al: How can violence against doctors in China be prevented?
On 10 January 2014, a four year old female was hospitalized with fever in the department of pediatrics of Xi’an Central Hospital in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, and was discharged […]
Yueju Liu et al: The past and present of government funded healthcare in China
Yueju Liu,Yanling Su, Han Li, Juan Wang, and Yingze Zhang reflect on the past and present of government funded healthcare in China. Urban healthcare reform from 1949 to 1993 After […]