Europe’s Plagues Came From China, Study Finds

The waves of plague that twice devastated Europe and changed the course of history had their origins in China, a team of medical geneticists reported.

Sony Hopes for a Blockbuster as ‘Dr. Oz’ Format Goes to China

Sony Pictures Television is expected to announce a deal on Wednesday to export the format of “The Dr. Oz Show” to Chinese television.

Chinese Experiment Seeks Secrets To Happiness

Last year, a book called China Is Unhappy topped the best-seller lists in the Middle Kingdom. It was a nationalistic screed arguing that China should stop debasing itself and stand up to its critics. But is China really unhappy? And how can it become happier?

Chinese Hospitals Are Battlegrounds of Discontent

In 2006, patients or their relatives attacked more than 5,500 medical workers, reflecting wide discontent with China’s public health care system.

For China's Growing Middle Class, Expanding Waistlines Pose Problem

In the second in his series of reports from China on global health issues, Ray Suarez reports on the dramatic increase in obesity as the country's growing class of educated and well-paid consumers adopt some Western-style shopping and eating habits.

China Faces Growing Health Crisis from Prevalent Tobacco Use

In the first of three global health reports from China, Ray Suarez examines the work of anti-tobacco advocates in China, where the government -- which is a huge producer of tobacco products -- has done little to quash the deadly smoking epidemic.

Chinese Dissidents Committed to Mental Hospitals

Special correspondent Shannon Van Sant reports on political dissidents being committed to mental hospitals in China.

Teenager dies in Internet rehab

A teenager was allegedly beaten to death by counselors at an Internet addiction rehabilitation clinic in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The 15-year-old middle school graduate, surnamed Deng, was pronounced dead around 3 am Sunday at Wuxu town health center in Nanning, China's national radio website cnr.cn reported on Sunday.

Chinese Town Sealed Off After Plague Deaths

An outbreak of pneumonic plague has killed two residents of a village in rural west-central China, the state-run Xinhua news service reported.

China Internet addiction

Jan 20 - China has cemented its position as the world's largest Internet population, with the number of Internet users reaching a staggering 300 million at the end of 2008, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre.

At a newly created Internet addiction treatment centre, Cheng Jiawei had to finish one last exercise of arranging toy figurines in a sandpit, a way her doctors could understand how her mind worked.

China Announces Subsidies for Health Care

China announced Wednesday that it intends to spend $123 billion by 2011 to establish universal health care for the country’s 1.3 billion people.

Diffusing AIDS time bomb in China

Dec 1 - China targets migrant workers in HIV/AIDS prevention drive.

As World Aids Day marks its 20th anniversary, the fight to stem the deadly virus is far from won.

Infection rates are continuing to soar in many countries, slashing life expectancy and condemning bereaved families to a cycle of perpetual grieving.

In China, where an estimated 700,000 people are HIV positive, authorities are targeting the country's 200 million migrant workers, the backbone of the Chinese economy, who are among the most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

F.D.A. Opens Office in Beijing to Screen Food and Drug Exports

The U.S. opened a branch of the Food and Drug Administration in the Chinese capital, the first of several overseas offices aimed at regulating the safety of imported food and medicine.

The Safety Gap

China is becoming the biggest producer of pharmaceutical ingredients in the world – but the F.D.A. inspects just a tiny fraction of China’s drug plants. Can we be sure what we’re taking is safe?

China Bans One Brand of Herbal Drug After 3 Deaths

China’s Food and Drug Administration said it had discovered two harmful batches of the medicine and urged people to report any problems with it.

H.I.V. Spreads in China, Affecting New Populations

Infection with the AIDS virus in China is spreading beyond the country’s original high-risk groups and the virus has spread to all provinces.

Beijing cleans up act for Olympics

Apr. 14 - Beijing announces new measures for heavy polluters to improve air quality for the Olympics.

To offset concerns about the health implications for competitors, Beijing is taking drastic action to ensure the Games don't stumble at the last hurdle.

Heparin Is Now Suspected in 62 Fatalities Across U.S.

It is not known if the deaths linked to the blood thinner were the result of a contaminant introduced in China during the manufacturing process.

The Drug Scare That Exposed a World of Hurt

Following the heparin scandal, weak oversight of a global market for medicines has received new attention.

Heparin Discovery May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting

A blood thinner linked to deaths may have been tainted with a chemically altered form of chondroitin sulfate, a dietary supplement made from animal cartilage.