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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

A CCTV investigation, triggered by a data alert from China's medical-insurance system, exposed the 'recycled drug' black chain: subsidized medicines resold for cash, their origins laundered with forged receipts. Since 2025 more than 62,000 institutions have been investigated and 3 billion yuan involved — with spoiled, fake-cold-chain semaglutide the starkest case.

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

A rundown of semaglutide's five major side effects became one of Weibo's most-read health posts this week. Behind it sits a bigger story: a weight-loss drug boom racing ahead of its prescription regime, sold online with the slogan 'no dieting, no exercise, one shot and you're thin.'

'One Shot and You're Thin': China's Weight-Loss Boom Meets Semaglutide's Side Effects

9 Sep 2026

Geng Hongwei, the science blogger whose misconduct exposés have toppled senior academics, has been hired as a specially appointed lecturer by Zhejiang Media University. The hire is being debated as either the professionalization of online accountability — or its domestication.

The 'Regret Pill' Myth: Health Educators Push the Science of Emergency Contraception Timing

8 Sep 2026

Yingying, a 24-year-old livestreamer who drew an audience in the millions by eating enormous meals on camera, died on August 17, weeks after telling viewers that months of competitive overeating had drained her potassium and put her in the hospital. Her death has turned a little-discussed electrolyte into one of China's most-searched health topics.

Mukbang Streamer Dies at 24 After Warning Viewers About Potassium Loss

7 Sep 2026

Gum, Paper Cups, Takeout Boxes: the Ten Everyday Products a Viral Chinese Roundup Flags for Microplastics

6 Sep 2026