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Flu man better

Metro | Health
2009-11-19

THE 43-year-old local man who suffered severe symptoms of swine flu is improving, doctors from Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, a designated hospital for swine flu treatment, said yesterday. He is the city's...

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Diabetes therapy hailed

Metro | Health
2009-11-19

MORE than 30 patients with Type 1 diabetes have been able to survive without insulin shots for months -- over a year, in one case -- thanks to a novel therapy of transplanting patients' own blood stem cells, along...

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City reports 3rd serious H1N1 case

Metro | Health
2009-11-18

SHANGHAI yesterday announced its third serious case of swine flu - a 43-year-old man who was in stable condition at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. The patient, a local resident, was being treated last...

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Cardiac advice

Metro | Health
2009-11-17

AT least 540,000 people die of cardiac arrest in China's mainland every year, and public awareness lags, medical experts said yesterday. The five minutes after cardiac arrest is the golden period for treatment. Doctors...

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City prepares for seriously ill swine-flu patients

Metro | Health
2009-11-16

EXPERTS from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, a designated hospital for swine-flu treatment, expect an increase in patients seriously sickened by the virus. Their fears come as the number of swine-flu...

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Diabetes takes hold in teenagers

Metro | Health
2009-11-16

SHANGHAI residents as young as 14 are now at risk of diabetes, once a disease of the middle-aged, as a lifestyle of rich foods and scant exercise becomes more widespread, medical experts said. "Previously, 90 percent...

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High alert: It's disease season

Metro | Health
2009-11-14

SHANGHAI has entered the key period for swine flu, seasonal flu and other infectious diseases, and medical authorities need to be on high alert to head off possibly deadly outbreaks, the Shanghai Health Bureau said...

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Media exhibition embraces future

Metro | Health
2009-11-14

THE 10th Shanghai Media Exhibition opened yesterday at the No. 2 West Hall of Shanghai Exhibition Center at 1000 Yan'an Road M. The show displays the history and development of technology in the local industry...

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Local H1N1 monitoring net expanded to public venues

Metro | Health
2009-11-12

SHANGHAI has launched a major expansion of its network for monitoring the development of swine flu, health officials said yesterday. Meanwhile, some international schools seem to be reluctant to pick up on the...

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Swine-flu jabs: Shanghai sticks with game plan

Metro | Health
2009-11-9

SHANGHAI health officials said yesterday it was unnecessary to expand free swine-flu vaccinations to all the residents of the city. The policy of only vaccinating at-risk people like students, medical personnel...

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Father unknown, newborn shunned

Metro | Health
2009-11-9

OFFICIALS for the city's first hotline for unexpected pregnancies urged girls and young women to be more cautious when meeting men. And they said the pressures on pregnant girls are especially keen if they come...

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Swine flu: city's schools safe

Metro | Health
2009-11-7

THE Shanghai Health Bureau acted quickly yesterday to avert panic with the official line: There is no outbreak of swine flu in city schools. Its initiative was sparked after East China University of Science and...

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Transplants big

Metro | Health
2009-11-6

CHINA'S mainland has fulfilled over 86,000 kidney transplants. It carries out 4,000 to 5,000 kidney transplants every year, the second largest number in the world following the United States, Dr Chen Zhonghua, deputy...

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Hospital airlift

Metro | Health
2009-11-4

A 57-year-old man surnamed Wang was rushed to hospital by a helicopter yesterday from a fishing boat on the East China Sea with what doctors said was a cerebral hemorrhage. Wang was still in critical condition. The...

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Some parents resist swine flu shots

Metro | Health
2009-11-3

THE Shanghai Health Bureau reassured residents yesterday that swine flu vaccine is safe and effective following reports that some parents are refusing to allow their children to be inoculated against the sometimes-deadly...