China parents to sue over "tainted" umbilical blood
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Scores of Shanghai parents are to sue a  biotech firm suspected of concealing the fact that their  children's umbilical cord blood, believed to be a likely cure  for future blood diseases, was tainted, state media said on  Thursday.
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A Chinese court has ordered a holiday resort and a crocodile keeper to pay almost 220,000 yuan ($30,600) in compensation to the parents of a nine-year-old boy who was devoured by the reptiles last year.
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Growing numbers of Chinese children are  being born with deformities due to pollution, later pregnancies  and unhealthy lifestyles, state media said on Thursday quoting  a medical expert.
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A Libyan family whose two daughters died of AIDS after being in a hospital hit by an outbreak of the deadly virus went to court to sue the state over their deaths, a legal source said.
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In what is being called a "wrongful birth" case, a jury awarded more than $21 million Monday to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems.
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Government health officials are investigating if a Chinese factory may be a source of problems with a Baxter International blood thinner linked to hundreds of reports of allergic reactions and four deaths.
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Health officials will ask a court to decide whether to continue treating a seriously-ill baby as his family plead for him.
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Five people, three of them ethnic Chinese, appeared in court charged in connection with the drowning deaths of at least 21 Chinese migrant workers in northwest England, last February.
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An MP is to launch a bid to get doctors to offer parents the option of storing their baby's umbilical cord blood.
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BEIJING - Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
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China is to launch a nationwide survey  of people who sold their blood in the 1990s as it tries to  track down HIV/AIDS victims, state television said on  Wednesday.
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(KRON) -- There are more safety concerns about painkillers after the parents of a 7-year-old Los Angeles girl sued the makers of Children&#39;s Motrin.
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A cluster of cases of bleeding in the lungs involving four infants in the Boston area looks like it may be associated with a common genetic blood-clotting defect, a federal investigation shows.
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China still faces a problem with the illegal sale of blood to hospitals, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, years after such trade sparked an AIDS outbreak in the central province of Henan.
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Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children's snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said yesterday.
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BEIJING -- China said yesterday that it was investigating the sale of fake blood protein, a potentially dangerous and widespread practice that underscores the country's problems with product safety.
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Blood from a baby's umbilical cord could help doctors predict which children will suffer from allergies and asthma later in their lives, British and American scientists said on Thursday.