China says worried by drug resistant pneumonia
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Almost 70 percent of child pneumonia patients in a recent Chinese survey were resistant to drugs used to treat the disease due to overuse of antibiotics, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Information gathered by the World Health Organization and other groups between 2000 and 2002 indicates the presence of strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to one or more standard drugs in virtually all of the countries surveyed, with particularly high levels in areas of the former Soviet Union and China.
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WASHINGTON : World Health Organization and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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China is touting the pre-emptive measures it has taken to cooperate with the world&#39;s public health establishment in fighting bird flu.
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LONDON - Resistance to a popular anti-influenza drug from Switzerlandâs Roche may be more common than previously thought, raising questions about how it should be used in a major pandemic, Japanese researchers said on Thursday.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's blistering economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.
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Asia faces an outbreak of unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza, which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous  for people.
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Treating severe pneumonia in children at home with oral antibiotics works just as well as treating them with intravenous drugs at a hospital as advised by the World Health Organization, scientists said on Thursday.
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Hong Kong's government has ordered schools to step up precautions against influenza as another child came down with a mysterious respiratory infection.
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Hong Kong&#39;s government has ordered schools to step up precautions against influenza as another child came down with a mysterious respiratory infection.
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China should not be singled out for particular concern over food safety, a big problem that rich and poor countries alike must tackle through better regulation, top World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday.
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Rising trend of early human death cases in recent years in China have sounded alert on how to find effective ways to prevent the widespread sub health problems, which has so
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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China warned the international media against exaggerating its food safety problems and stirring consumer panic, even as its inspectors found substandard children's snacks and more fake blood protein in hospitals.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults. That&#39;s according to two of several
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China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday after the worst flooding in a  century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing,  while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.