Volunteer doctors revisit quake epicenter
2018-05-04
Volunteer doctors revisited Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, the epicenter of a devastating earthquake nearly 10 years ago.
Chinese researchers identify new leprosy gene variants
2018-05-03
Chinese researchers have identified two new risk gene variants that are responsible for leprosy.
Wang Hesheng visits Cuba
2018-05-03
From April 22 to 27, at the invitation of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, Wang Hesheng, vice-minister of the National Health Commission (NHC), visited Cuba and attended the "2018 Cuba-Health" international conference on public health.
Cancer drug imports now tariff-free
2018-05-02
Supportive policies have been released by the central government to reduce the prices of cancer drugs and further relieve financial stress for patients, health officials said.
Latest HPV vaccine OK for import to mainland
2018-05-02
Residents of the Chinese mainland now have access to a nine-way HPV vaccine－which works against up to nine types of HPV－after the medication was given the nod by China's top drug administration.
China to build birth defect database
2018-05-01
Chinese authorities have confirmed the launch of a monitoring project designed to create a genetic birth defect list of at least 500,000 samples, reports the Beijing News.
China’s cancer patients welcome tariff-free drugs
2018-05-01
"It takes years for medicine that has been proven clinically effective and widely used internationally to get China's import approval and incorporated into our catalog of medical insurance reimbursement, but for us cancer patients, our lives count by the month or the day," said 44-year-old middle school teacher Cheng Jing, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2016.
China removes import tariffs on all cancer drugs
2018-05-01
China has exempted import tariffs on all common drugs including cancer drugs, cancer alkaloid-based drugs, and imported traditional Chinese medicine on May 1.
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