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Interview: Discovering drugs in China
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:45:29 +0100 | Chemistry World | Latest News
Ming-Qiang Zhang talks about affordable medicines, nano vacuum cleaners and pharmaceutical research (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)

12 killed in China's latest industrial accident
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0100 | Los Angeles Times - Science
The explosion at a plastics factory in eastern China injures 300 and reduces buildings to rubble. It follows an oil spill this month and an acid leak that poisoned a river. A powerful explosion caused by a broken gas pipeline killed at least 12 people Wednesday, injured about 300 and flattened hundreds of buildings in eastern China in the latest in a series of troubling industrial accidents. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)

Burns caused by alcohol-based fires in the household coal stove in Anhui Province, China
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:31:49 +0100 | Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Conclusion: Burns caused by alcohol-based fires in household coal stoves is a common thermal injury in the middle of Anhui Province in China with characteristic clinical presentation and calls for preventive educational intervention. (Source: Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries)

Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:28:12 +0100 | Red Cross Chat
Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… PAKISTAN: The ICRC is providing training in first aid for journalists from Pakistan working in violence-affected areas. IRAQ: The ICRC is helping more than 64,000 destitute Iraqis through the holy month of Ramadan by providing them with food and hygiene items. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: The ICRC and the Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have begun to distribute food to 53,000 people who have fled their villages because of violence since mid-July. Meanwhile the ICRC recently reunited 14 ...

Habituating individuality: the framing of tuberculosis and its material solutions in republican china.
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:06:03 +0100 | Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Authors: Lei SH In their endeavor to solve China's tuberculosis crisis, public health advocates in the 1930s framed tuberculosis as a disease of the Chinese family. Instead of being considered as a social disease, tuberculosis drew people's attention to the graphic details of personal health habits and the allegedly pathogenic structure of the Chinese family. Focusing on so-called unhygienic habits and on the selective acceptance, abandonment, or innovation of household utensils (such as the traditional sleeping platform, the individual cup, and the hygienic table), the author traces the process by which tuberculosis contributed to the making of the modern Chinese body by way of habituating individuality. PMID: 20657056 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medi...

Philips buys Chinese ultrasound transducer maker
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:13:57 +0100 | Cardiovascular Business News
Royal Philips Electronics has acquired Shanghai Apex Electronics Technology, a manufacturer of ultrasound transducers, based in Shanghai, China, in order for Philips to increase its portfolio of transducers aimed at the emerging markets. (Source: Cardiovascular Business News)

Philips buys Chinese ultrasound transducer maker
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:13:57 +0100 | Health Imaging News
Royal Philips Electronics has acquired Shanghai Apex Electronics Technology, a manufacturer of ultrasound transducers, based in Shanghai, China, in order for Philips to increase its portfolio of transducers aimed at the emerging markets. (Source: Health Imaging News)

China trains fur farm foxes to combat rat plague
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:14:37 +0100 | Reuters: Health
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in China's far west have bred and trained "an army" of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)