Health

A seven-year-old Shenzhen girl whose family replaced her eczema treatment with three months of "detox" herbal baths developed wounds over 80 percent of her body and nearly died of sepsis—a case Chinese doctors are using to warn parents off miracle-cure remedies.

Chinese health media are warning against swatting the tiny black drain flies that breed in bathroom pipes, after a man lost an eye to an infection traced to one. The insects, called 'mobile germ libraries' on Weibo, can carry E. coli and Salmonella — and the fix is the drain, not the fly.

A girl of ordinary, healthy teenage size was flagged 'overweight, heavier than 99 percent of girls her age' by a Xiaotiancai phone-watch. Doctors say the watch mixed up its own data — and the episode reopened China's argument about whether consumer devices are teaching children they are fat.