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The New York Times “Room for Debate” Looks at China’s Healthcare System

If you have not already, head over to the New York Times and their “Room for Debate” section.  It has been covering the topic of China’s healthcare system with a series of columns attempting to answer the question “Is ...
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Differences Between Cybermedicine and Telemedicine, and why it matters.

I have a new article up on the blog of the UN Foundation hosted initiative Health Unbound called “The mHealth alliance is concerned with cybermedicine AND telemedicine. There is a difference. Here’s why it matters.̶...
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Meat, Dairy, and the Chinese Nutrition Divide

This post was originally published on The China Nutrition Project (CNP). Asia Healthcare Blog has CNP’s permission to reprint its articles and Tayler Cox, the post author, has contributed to AHCB in the past. The origina...
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China Bystander: China Expands Vaccination Campaign Following Deadly Polio Outbreak

Last week we linked to a story by China Bystander about a wide-scale vaccination program underway in Xinjiang after a major polio outbreak: “A mass vaccination program is underway in Xinjiang following an outbreak of poli...
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First Polio outbreak in China in 10 years underway in Xinjiang, by way of Pakistan

I don’t like to take whole posts from other blogs, but I make an exception when there is a developing public health concern. Today China Bystander broke the story that China has begun a wide-scale vaccination program in X...
by Damjan Denoble
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