2015-08-07
Reforms aimed at ending county-level public hospitals relying on drug sales to supplement their incomes will be adopted at all such hospitals nationwide by the end of October.
2015-08-05
Supervision of companies involved in a major national medical insurance program is to be intensified to prevent subscribers' personal details from being leaked.
2015-08-04
Less than 28 percent of babies under six months old were exclusively breast-fed in China in 2013, compared with 67 percent in 1998.
2015-08-03
More than half a million specially bred male mosquitoes are being released on an island in southern China every week to fight dengue fever.
2015-07-30
Most of China's first group of doctors specifically trained for work in rural areas have been assigned to hospitals and clinics in the country's less-developed regions, health and education officials said recently.
2015-07-29
A national survey on China's aging population, the largest such effort of its kind, will start on Saturday, authorities announced on Tuesday.
2015-07-24
Chinese President Xi Jinping's wife Peng Liyuan, who is also the WHO's goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, said she would join the nation's battle against HIV/AIDS, striving for a "zero AIDS" China.
2015-07-27
Commercial insurers are expected to benefit from a major medical insurance program that will cover almost all residents in China by the end of this year, despite restrictions on their profit margins.
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