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One Shot, Months of Control: China's 'Hypertension Vaccine' Heads Into Phase Two

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A Wuhan biotech firm's 'hypertension vaccine' has cleared its first-in-human trial and will move into Phase II, promising months of blood-pressure control from a few injections a year — a prospect aimed at China's 330 million hypertension patients.

Chongqing Makes Telling Your Spouse an HIV Result a Legal Duty

Chongqing Makes Telling Your Spouse an HIV Result a Legal Duty

From December 1, Chongqing's new AIDS prevention regulations make informing your spouse of an HIV test result a legal obligation — and let medical institutions deliver the notice for patients who will not.

Most Chinese Lung Nodule Patients Have Never Smoked, Zhong Nanshan's Team Finds

Most Chinese Lung Nodule Patients Have Never Smoked, Zhong Nanshan's Team Finds

A nationwide study led by respiratory pioneer Zhong Nanshan found that 71 per cent of Chinese lung nodule patients had never smoked, and nearly three-quarters of the lung cancers it tracked appeared in people outside the usual high-risk groups — prompting a call to rethink who gets screened.

Thin for Now: What Happened to the Chinese Who Injected Semaglutide to Lose Weight

A year into China's weight-loss-injection boom, clinical numbers and user testimonials are converging on an awkward answer: the shots work — about two-thirds of users shed 17 percent of their body weight — but more than half regain it after stopping. Now the drug's popularity has opened a third front: counterfeit and 'recycled' semaglutide circulating outside pharmacies.

Tell the Spouse: China Debates Mandatory HIV Disclosure in Premarital Checkups

Tell the Spouse: China Debates Mandatory HIV Disclosure in Premarital Checkups

A pollster's plain question — should HIV testing be written into premarital checkups, with results disclosed to the partner — drew more than 28,000 likes and a familiar collision: China's infection numbers are climbing, but its AIDS regulations make an infected person's diagnosis confidential, even from the person about to marry them.

Why China Is Barring Its Influencer Doctors From Selling Products Online

Why China Is Barring Its Influencer Doctors From Selling Products Online

A rumor that medical workers are being barred from commercial partnerships across the industry is essentially accurate: a stack of national documents and platform rules now prohibit China's 'influencer doctors' from livestream selling medicines, supplements and wellness courses.

From the Medicine Cabinet to the Black Market: China's 'Recycled Drug' Trade Exposed

20 Sep 2026

Syphilis, the 'Great Imitator', Is Quietly Creeping Back Among Young Chinese

18 Sep 2026

A 66-year-old American man lived more than nine months dialysis-free with a gene-edited pig kidney implanted at Massachusetts General Hospital, The Lancet has reported — the first time a pig organ served as a bridge until a human kidney arrived. Chinese readers are following closely: the country ran Asia's first pig-kidney transplant in 2024.

Nine Months on a Pig Kidney: Landmark 'Bridge' Transplant Renews China's Xenotransplantation Debate

18 Sep 2026

Blackie Chen, the Taiwanese TV host who founded the P. League+ basketball association, survived a heart attack and told followers his doctor blames years of sleeping three or four hours a night. His three-point plea from a Taipei hospital bed — take fatigue seriously, learn the symptoms, schedule sleep like work — has struck a nerve on Chinese social media.

Health Has No Overtime: Blackie Chen's Heart Attack Puts the Sleep-Deprived Workplace on Notice

18 Sep 2026

A student's claim that Tongji University's campus hospital required an examination to prove she was menstruating before issuing a sick note has set off a national argument over privacy and medical gatekeeping. The hospital says exams happen only when doctors judge them necessary; the row has put China's rarely used menstrual-leave rules under fresh scrutiny.

Asked to Prove a Period: The Sick-Note Row at Tongji University's Campus Clinic

17 Sep 2026

German trainer shoes have become the flat, narrow shoe of the season in China, and Hangzhou hospitals are seeing the consequence: a 32-year-old who squeezed her feet into the style for months has been diagnosed with bunions. The story has opened a debate over whether the shoes — or the way Chinese shoppers buy them — are to blame.

The German Trainer Shoes Trending in China Are Sending Wearers to the Hospital

16 Sep 2026

A Mother Switched Her Family to Non-Iodized Salt. Her Toddler Stopped Talking.

14 Sep 2026

After a Famous Anchor's Death, China's Feeds Fill With Stroke Warnings

13 Sep 2026

The National Healthcare Security Administration disclosed that staff at Hebei Medical University Second Hospital took bribes 46 times over 11 years, totalling 184 million yuan, from more than 30 drug and device firms — a rare, itemised look at how kickbacks are built into China's hospital procurement.

China's Health Regulator Says 30 Drug Firms Paid 184 Million Yuan in Kickbacks to One Hospital

13 Sep 2026

China's Updated Heimlich Guidance Puts Back Blows First

13 Sep 2026

A 7-Year-Old's Early Puberty Diagnosis Begins at the Family Fried-Chicken Shop

11 Sep 2026

Japan's Syphilis Surge, Thirteen-Fold in a Decade, Now Runs Into a Penicillin Shortage

10 Sep 2026