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China’s quack doctors are not afraid to hire someone who’ll hurt you, or me

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on August 25, 2010. Filed under China, Public Health. 2 Comments.
Fang Xuanchang is a respected Chinese science and technology journalist who was recently beaten by two men he suspects were thugs hired by an angry doctor he exposed in a story. The incident suggests a new enemy to journalists in a nation filled with government press crackdowns: vindictive story subjects who hire mobsters to seek revenge. Photograph by: John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times/MCT
All I can say is, boy it's good to be in the US of A, where I can safely say, "Go F[ine and self regulate] yourself [better] TianTian Puhua Hospital in Beijing for taking suffering people's money and feeding them false hope." I really hate to get half-way to vulgar like I just did, but medical predators make me so angry.

Rise of Syphilis, in China, and the Beijing Olympics are related

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on May 10, 2010. Filed under China, News Items, Public Health. 3 Comments.
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The difference between 2004 and now is that China started presenting it's public face to the world. If 1978 marked the era of China's opening, then 2004's awarding of the Olympics to Beijing marked the era of China's entrance into world society. The interesting story that the figures tell then, is how China's entrance into world society negatively impacted the country's public health.

Wanna start a healthcare company, in China? Work with a business incubator

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under China. No comments.
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What sets these China [healthcare/health science] incubators apart from venture capital firms is their main purpose is not to give money; at the end of the day they are not responsible to investors. Some probably do give money and I'm not sure whether The Hamner does or not, but the core of their investment is in the form of expert guidance and a powerful Chinese network. The main advantages of seeking them out are two fold:

Superbugs a problem in China, here, and everywhere. And don’t just blame it on Chinese doctors.

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on February 12, 2010. Filed under China, Public Health. 2 Comments.
To be sure, the drug resistance situation in China is worrying. Of course, the article fails to mention the fact that the situation is equally worrying in much of the world. Overprescribing of antibiotics to humans, overuse of antibiotics in agriculture, and drug resistant bacteria are big problems in America, the UK and Europe, South and Latin America, Australia, Russia, India and anywhere else that antibiotics are readily available. In the UK, it should be added, antibiotics panic is a favorite way of pundits to get the public riled up. I think its because the threat of country-wide infection is a particularly frightening prospect for people living on islands; there's only so many places that one can run to get away.

C-Sections in China, what if they are more common when parents know its a boy?

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on February 11, 2010. Filed under China. No comments.
China's low gender empowerment is also reflected in the country's preference for boys over girls. Chinese parents are not shy about using ultrasound to determine the sex of their children, and there is evidence that the proliferation of ultrasound machines coincides with a rise in selective abortions whereby parents. This is also a formula for higher C-section rates. When a woman is in the doctor's office with her husband, and they find out that the child is a boy, how great is the pressure on the woman to have a C-section if the doctor says this is absolutely the surest way to ensure the healthy delivery of the baby? This then leads directly to the second thought. In that Lancet C-section study, wouldn't it be interesting to take a look at how many of the C-section babies were boys?