Cured lepers still live in "colonies" in China
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PANYU, China  - The old men hunched over a board game looked like any other pensioners playing chess, until they lifted their heads to welcome medical staff approaching their table.
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Dr. Gao Yaojieâs house arrest sheds light on Chinaâs intolerance for grass-roots AIDS activists.
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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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It is rare for a foreign doctor to get to China&#39;s rural areas, where its AIDS epidemic was born and takes a horrible toll. But recently, two nurses and I ventured into a poor farming area, Nizui
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They announced the finding after conducting one of the world&#39;s longest and largest clinical trials to investigate the ancient Chinese needle treatment.
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CHANGZHOU, China -- Twelve years ago, five families from the Washington area came to this city in China's eastern Jiangsu province to adopt children. They found little girls to welcome into their worlds and, in doing so, joined a new generation of American families that had only recently begun to...
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DAXING, China -- Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each...
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BEIJING : China Tuesday insisted that although a highly lethal strain of the bird flu virus had been found in pigs, it did not constitute an epidemic.
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The Chinese were consuming fermented beverages &#151; possibly wine &#151; as long as 9,000 years ago, according to scientists who used modern techniques to peer back through the mists of time.
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China has erected a monument for a little thought of, but important martyr -- the mice, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys who gave their lives to science, especially the testing for SARS vaccine.
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NANJING, China -- On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents' praise.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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Researchers in the remote forests of Cambodia said Wednesday they have discovered the only known colony in Southeast Asia of slender-billed vultures and scores of other endangered birds. The colony was discovered last month in the jungles east of the Mekong River in Cambodia's Stung Treng Province.
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HONG KONG: China hopes to avoid any new SARS outbreaks with a preventative plan that is likely to include a ban on the consumption of civet cats in Guangdong province restaurants.
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HANGZHOU, China -- In spring 2006, an essay appeared on the Internet detailing collusion between the Chinese government's food and drug watchdog agency and a pharmaceutical venture. It accused the country's highest-ranking regulator of accepting a lakeside house and hundreds of thousands of dollars...
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ERIE, Pa. -- Researchers continue to interview people who have recently become sick from a mysterious illness after visiting an island in Lake Erie.
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China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in recent decades, but places like southern Henan Province still remain destitute.