Medical Health

Individuals with criminal records are ineligible for sex change surgery according to a draft of China’s first official guidelines for gender reassignment operations published this week.
Under the new criteria, candidates must live full-time for at least five consecutive years as a member of the opposite sex before surgery and must have one [...]

The University of Montreal students had shown no flu symptoms but were nonetheless quarantined in the northeast Chinese city of Changchun after they arrived by plane last Saturday.
Canadian foreign affairs spokesman Alain Cacchione said he had just been informed the students would be released on Thursday morning. Canadian officials said there were [...]

In recent years, officials have largely turned a blind eye to this underground womb-for-rent industry that defies the country’s strict childbirth laws. Now, there are signs the authorities are starting to crack down by forcing some surrogate mothers to abort their fetuses.
In the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, three young surrogate first-time [...]

The virus could spread quickly in densely populated cities in China or India where healthcare systems are often inadequate and antibiotic resistance is common, health officials say.
But so far there have so far been no confirmed or even suspected cases of the virus in either China or India, where more than one [...]

“Unlike shopping in supermarkets, where I buy the brands I know and I know the brands I buy, buying drugs is different; the brands you know may not be what they claim to be,” said the 38-year-old father.
China’s poorly regulated medical market has spawned a new ’Wild West’ for untested drugs offered [...]

A report published in The Lancet journal on Thursday found that in high-income countries, only 1 percent of tuberculosis infections cannot be treated with two or more front-line drugs.
However in Eastern Europe, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said, 19 percent of tuberculosis infections are multi-drug resistant (MDR-TB), with especially high rates in [...]

The infections were discovered in September after a patient who had received a transfusion during an operation tested positive for the disease, the Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday. The hospital in the southwestern city of Pingtang traced the transfusion to a donor in another province who had sold as many as 42 pints (20 liters) [...]

Two children died of the disease, also known as enterovirus, over the weekend in Heze city in the eastern province of Shandong, the provincial medical department said on its website. According to the Beijing News paper, tests on the causes of another four recent infant deaths in and around Heze were still being [...]

The State Food and Drug Administration had investigated 33 products, including baby shampoo, made by Johnson & Johnson after a U.S. consumer group charged that they contained carcinogens. The SFDA, in a statement on its website, said it would continue to monitor the situation and carry out timely tests. “The results of [...]

The commission will come under the auspices of the State Council, or Cabinet, and will be set out under a new food safety law to be put to the annual parliamentary session next month, Xinhua news agency said. The commission’s task would be “to strengthen the country’s food monitoring system, whose low efficiency [...]