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A Hunan girl with epidermolysis bullosa needs bandage changes over most of her body, twice a day, at a cost of over 10,000 yuan a month — and her family's public care logs are teaching China what routine prenatal care misses.
A 60-year-old woman in Ningbo spent days hammering her abdomen with a massage gun to burn off what she took for belly fat; the growth was ovarian cancer, and the larger of two tumors measured 15 centimeters. Doctors say she came within a membrane's thickness of seeding cancer through her abdominal cavity — and they are using the case to warn about China's favorite recovery gadget.
With fatty liver now China's most common liver disease, state-media health segments are flagging a two-way link between the condition and depression — and a singer's account of twenty years on antidepressants is pushing the mind-body message home.
Doctors in Fuzhou diagnosed a 25-year-old online seller with 'digital dementia' — not Alzheimer's but a memory gone idle from outsourcing itself to the screen — after her daily phone use passed ten hours and her forgetfulness began to frighten her.
China's weather bureau confirmed this week that the El Niño forming in the Pacific is already the strongest since monitoring began in 1951 — arriving in the same month a Lancet report put last year's heat-related deaths in China at nearly 20,000. The country is about to learn what its new climate baseline feels like.
For decades viral hepatitis was the liver disease Chinese people feared most. Better hygiene and vaccination have pushed it down — and a fattier, more sedentary way of life has pushed metabolic fatty liver to the top, with prevalence estimates of 30 to 40 percent and a firm grip on the young.
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