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Loulan Beauty upsets Chinese View of Colonization of Xinjiang
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 day 19 hours (www.nytimes.com)
In Xinjiang, a part of China that mainstream culture considers to be entirely Chinese, the discovery of over two hundred extremely well-preserved and marketly not Han Chinese mummies have called that assertion into question. Xinjiang borders Kazakh and Mongolia.
My take? Well DUH. Human beings migrate like crazy. Borders change. My ancestors moved from God-knows-where to Ireland, displacing the people who lived there earlier. Today we call their other descendants "Irish" and wouldn't think of calling them anything else 


Smoking and solid fuel use in homes cause millions of deaths
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (esciencenews.com)
If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from lung cancer in China, accounting for 19% and 5% of all deaths in that country during this period. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) predict that the combined effects of these two major factors alone will be responsible for more than 80% of COPD deaths and 75% of lung cancer deaths in China over a thirty-year period 


American Company Tries Western-Style Hospitals in China
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 4 weeks (buzz.yahoo.com)
An American company is trying to popularize Western-style hospitals that cater to the elite in China. But it faces significant hurdles when it comes to getting the Chinese to pay for its services.
Chindex International, a Bethesda, Md., company featured in today’s Washington Post, has opened hospitals and clinics where foreign physicians and some of China’s top doctors charge as much as several hundred dollars for a single visit. That’s steep compared to the $10 or $20 per-visit charge at state-owned hospitals 


Health services in China face enormous challenge after earthquake
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.bmj.com)
The earthquake in Sichuan on 12 May has left at least 292 480 people injured and 5.4 million homeless, creating a huge medical and public health challenge for the Chinese authorities. 


Beijing reports first child virus death
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (ap.google.com)
This study reports the first death from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across the country and killed at least forty-two people. 
Enterovirus 71 has broken out in Fuyang of China.
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (access.health.qld.gov.au)
Enterovirus 71 has outbroken in China. As of now there have been more than 20 deaths attributed to it. Most of these were children. This article gives us some basic knowledge about EV71. 


China virus toll continues rise
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (news.bbc.co.uk)
According to this article, we know that the virus toll in China continues rise. EV71is highly contagious, causing fever, blisters in the mouth and a rash on the hands and feet. From this report, it is said that the outbreak emerged in Fuyang city in March, but was only reported in mid-April. The reason why there was a delay in the reporting at the provincial level was that they didn’t know what the causes for these different cases were. 


Heparin contaminated "on purpose"
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (news.bbc.co.uk)
America's drug watchdogs believe that Chinese-made ingredients for a blood-thinning drug may have been deliberately contaminated, but Chinese officials have acknowledged the presence of the contaminant. But they say it is not to blame for the allergic reactions or deaths, citing a lack of incidents in more than 10 other countries which have received the same contaminated stocks. 


Beijing May Green for the Olympics, but Long-Term Forecast Is Gray
d8allen submitted, created time 7 months 5 days (www.nytimes.com)
Reprogrammed Skin Cells Strut Their Stuff
Eric wu submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
I am so excited when I read this good news.No doubt,It has taken a hopeful light for our human being to conquer sickle cell anemia.
It has been reported that common skin cells transfered to stem cells by adding four special genes two weeks ago.It also has a debate in China. A Chinese scientist whose name is not specific to me wrote a article in China GuangMing Daily to declare that the new breakthrough on stem cell research has referred to his achievement more or less. But another Chinese scientist who is famous for revealing false science made a face for his action 


Chinese turtles facing extinction: another Yangtze goddess under guard
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
This article is more interesting for the way it's listed than what's in it. Most of us already know that amphibians and aquatic reptiles, like the unicorn in Harry Potter I, are often the first innocents to suffer. But this article, which does show up on the science page, is primarily listed under "World News: Asia." I wonder where it showed up in the paper version.
The lady in question is the last known living female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle. She's eighty and not much to look at, but she is as carefully tended as the most delicate ghost orchid 


Chinese company to sue Google over name
Scarlett submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.sciam.com)
A Chinese company is suing Google Inc.'s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S. search engine's registered Chinese name is too similar to its own and has harmed its operations. 


The first skull of the earliest giant panda
cappuccion submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.pnas.org)
Fossils of the giant panda Ailuropoda (Order Carnivora, Family Ursidae) are largely isolated teeth, mandibles, and a few rare skulls, known from the late Pliocene to late Pleistocene in China and Southeast Asia. Much of this material represents a Pleistocene chronospecies, Ailuropoda baconi, an animal larger than the living giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca. The earliest certain record of Ailuropoda is the late Pliocene chronospecies, Ailuropoda microta, smaller than either A. baconi or A. melanoleuca, and previously known only from teeth and a few mandibles from karst caves in south China 


India considers Chinese move to lift tiger trade ban
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reuters.com)
"India indicated on Monday it could back China's push to lift a blanket ban on trading tiger parts if certain conditions were met to protect wild tigers and a new study showed their numbers would not be affected.
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China to Send Bird Flu Samples to WHO
medal submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (hosted.ap.org)
"China is preparing to send virus samples from recent human bird flu cases to the World Health Organization after the agency said this week that it had not received any for over a year, state media reported Friday." 