Reform to end reliance on drug sales
2015-08-07
Reforms aimed at ending county-level public hospitals relying on drug sales to supplement their incomes will be adopted at all such hospitals nationwide by the end of October.
Watchdog acts to prevent medical insurance leaks, manage costs
2015-08-05
Supervision of companies involved in a major national medical insurance program is to be intensified to prevent subscribers' personal details from being leaked.
Breast-feeding pushed for infant health
2015-08-04
Less than 28 percent of babies under six months old were exclusively breast-fed in China in 2013, compared with 67 percent in 1998.
Mosquitoes released in fight against dengue fever
2015-08-03
More than half a million specially bred male mosquitoes are being released on an island in southern China every week to fight dengue fever.
First rural doctors graduate
2015-07-30
Most of China's first group of doctors specifically trained for work in rural areas have been assigned to hospitals and clinics in the country's less-developed regions, health and education officials said recently.
Massive survey to focus on 223,000 elderly
2015-07-29
A national survey on China's aging population, the largest such effort of its kind, will start on Saturday, authorities announced on Tuesday.
China strives for 'Zero AIDS' era
2015-07-24
Chinese President Xi Jinping's wife Peng Liyuan, who is also the WHO's goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, said she would join the nation's battle against HIV/AIDS, striving for a "zero AIDS" China.
New program 'to benefit commercial insurers'
2015-07-27
Commercial insurers are expected to benefit from a major medical insurance program that will cover almost all residents in China by the end of this year, despite restrictions on their profit margins.
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