BEIJING, Oct. 17 — Terminologies of traditional medicine should no longer be lost in translation.
    The world’s first document listing international standard terminologies of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was jointly launched in Beijing yesterday by the World Health Organization(WHO) and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS).
    The document contains nearly 4,000 terms covering eight categories including [...]

 BEIJING, Oct. 17 — Preventive healthcare initiatives feature largely in the blueprint for China’s medical reform, a key official closely involved in the policymaking revealed.    Ge Yanfeng, deputy chief of the social development research department under the Development Research Center of the State Council, made the remarks on Monday at the one-day Summit of the Pacific [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 17 — China will launch a long-awaited unified code name system in the pharmaceutical industry, probably by the end of this year, one of the persons responsible for drafting the system said yesterday in Shanghai.    All medicines in the country will be included in the new system and each drug will be given a [...]

WUHAN, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — Ninety-five percent of China’s catering establishments will have a certified hygiene grade by the end of this year as part of a nationwide effort to improve food safety, a senior health official said on Wednesday.    Health departments would issue four grades from A for the best restaurants to D for the [...]

    BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — China’s Health Minister Chen Zhu has called for respect to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the scientific value of which is doubted by some people.    ”A prudent scientist should not judge TCM in haste if he did not understand its meaning, advantage and core theories,” Chen, a Paris-trained hematology scientist, said in [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) – A total of 18,650 died in the United States in 2005 after being infected with a virulent drug-resistant bacterium that can be carried by healthy people, living on their skin or in their noses, said The Journal of the American Medical Association Wednesday.    Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was responsible for an estimated 94,000 life-threatening [...]

    BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) — Garlic is a well-known, loved food ingredient, easy to introduce in daily meal and is moreover good for the cardiovascular system, according to a new study in U.S. quoted by media reports Wednesday.
    The study, conducted by scientists at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, found that garlic is rich in allicin, an organic polysulphides. When [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhuanet) — A rare tropical fungus that showed up in British Columbia six years ago and has infected more than 100 people has spread south, infecting at least four residents of Whatcom County, Washington, killing two of them, according to health officials.    Cryptococcus gattii is invisible to the naked eye and found mostly [...]

   BEIJING, Oct. 17 — China will launch a long-awaited unified code name system in the pharmaceutical industry, probably by the end of this year, one of the persons responsible for drafting the system said yesterday in Shanghai.    All medicines in the country will be included in the new system and each drug will be given a [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 17 — Preventive healthcare initiatives feature largely in the blueprint for China’s medical reform, a key official closely involved in the policymaking revealed.    Ge Yanfeng, deputy chief of the social development research department under the Development Research Center of the State Council, made the remarks on Monday at the one-day Summit of the Pacific [...]