Author Archives: James

Surrogate pregnancy

Written by James. Posted on September 10, 2009. Filed under News Items. 1 Comment.
China Hush brings a translation of a story from NDDaily: Surrogate Pregnancy in China, Be Aware of Escort Girls The article looks into the quasi-legal field of surrogate pregnancy. Quasi-legal because the business is not legal, but surrogate pregnancies are. Contracts between the surrogate mothers and the customers are signed but are but there are [...]

Chinese security and smoking

Written by James. Posted on September 3, 2009. Filed under News Items. No comments.
As a lot of readers will know, the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China is coming up on October 1st. There have been a couple of small stories floating up that the Chinese government is getting tough on smoking by jailing and detaining people who smoke in public places where smaoking is banned. [...]

Health Media Clippings

Written by James. Posted on September 1, 2009. Filed under News Items. 3 Comments.
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Hat tip to China Smack, with their post Chinese Hospital Rushed By Patients & Ticket Scalpers: about 25 seconds into the video you get a glimpse of something you won’t be able to see much elsewhere. You aren’t likely to understand much, but you have people rushing into a hospital to grab tickets to get in [...]

More medical tourism questions

Written by James. Posted on August 31, 2009. Filed under News Items. 4 Comments.
We’ve written about medical tourism multiple times, I am still sceptical. Evan Falchuk raises an interesting point over at See First Blog with his post The Curious Case of Medical Tourism [...] [There] is a great deal of interest in [medical tourism] among the major media – the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and [...]