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Archive for February, 2012
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China, HK, Macau
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Sex ratio and saving, in China

There are, by last official count, 122 boys being born for every 100 girls in China, on the average, while in some areas it is as high as 145 to 100.  Over the years there have been countless riffs on how politically, socially...
by Damjan Denoble
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China, HK, Macau
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Western Physicians in China see things differently

Dr. Richard Cyr of the excellent "My Health Beijing" blog has had a practice, in Beijing, for the past three years. Sometime ago I communicated to him that it would be fascinating to read how his Beijing experience differs fro...
by Damjan Denoble
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India & the ASEAN
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Medical tourism and its related issues are complicated , but scholarship is starting to look into it.

Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School. His working paper "Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient Protective-Argument" is the most in depth exploration of the medical tourism i...
by Damjan Denoble
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China, HK, Macau
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The useful, the comedic, and the odd. It’s Links Saturday!

Once in a while we like to let you know what we’re reading.  Some of the stories below may end up as the focus of a column we do in the future, most will not.  But, strangely enough, all are entertaining in their own ri...
by James Flanagan
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India & the ASEAN
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Human Organ Printing makes sense in a world that’s 9 billion people strong

The number of biotech patents in Asia has skyrocketed in the past decade. Moreover, Asian labs have taken to stem cells as a champion issue of national prestige; stem cell technology, again, is crucial to pushing forward the d...
by Damjan Denoble
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