U.S.-based St. Jude Medical Inc. has opened a new facility in Beijing to provide physicians throughout China with practical experiences to improve the quality of therapy delivery and help enhance patient outcomes.

China Charity Federation and China Health Education Center, together with several other parties in China, have jointly launched a public welfare initiative to increase the public's awareness of rare diseases.

Peng Shaoxing, a vice director from Henan Provincial Trade Unions, has told local media that HPTU has attached great importance to the lung checkup of the migrant worker Zhang Haichao and has initiated an investigation on the issue.

From now until the end of January 2010, 2,800 clinicians from seven hospitals in Beijing will work on controlling their cigarette smoking.

GE Healthcare in Asia has released Centricity PACS Web Diagnostic, a new Web-based diagnostic viewer that will bring comprehensive detailed patient history to a single patient folder.

AmeriCares has opened a second field hospital in Sichuan Province — in Wenchuan County, which was the epicenter of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 69,000 people and left approximately 5 million homeless.

USA Men's basketball players and legends recently visited the Shanghai Children's Medical Center to meet its young patients — including a nine-year old boy who is being treated for injuries sustained during May's earthquake in Sichuan Province. NBA players like Dominique Wilkins joined Lily Hsu, program director for Project HOPE, and members of SCMC staff [...]