BioScience Trends. 2009 ;3(1):1-2.

In recent years, an unprecedented epizootic avian influenza virus, known as A (H5N1), that is highly pathogenic has crossed the species barrier in Asia to cause many human fatalities and an increasing pandemic threat from Southeast Asian to other countries, with occasional transmission to humans ...

BioScience Trends. 2008 ;2(6):216-217.

On December 27, 2008, the Beijing Symposium on a Hearing Screening Program for Neonates and Children was held at Beijing Tongren Hospital in Beijing, China. The symposium was sponsored by the Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and organized by the ...

BioScience Trends. 2008 ;2(4):135-136.

Japan-China Joint Medical Workshop on Drug Discoveries and Therapeutics 2008 (JCMWDDT 22008) was held at The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2008. The workshop was started with an announcement by Chairperson from Japan, Dr. Sekimizu (Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of ...

BioScience Trends. 2008 ;2(4):133-134.

On September 10, 2008, at the University of Tokyo, researchers from China, Laos, Mongolia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Japan exchanged results and shared experiences at the symposium on "The International Health Policy and Medical Waste Management Research in Asian Region". This three-year research ...

BioScience Trends. 2008 ;2(3):96.

The 7th Sino-Japanese Symposium on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Disease was held in Beijing from April 18 to 19, 2008 and welcomed four professors as Symposium Presidents: Profs. Ke-Ming Ja, Zhiqiang Huang, and Jia-Hong Dong from China and Prof. Keiichi Kubota from Japan. Top professors from Japan ...

Drug Discov Ther. 2009 ;3(1):1.

The successive appearance of strains of epizootic avian influenza A virus with the subtype H5N1 in China has attracted considerable concern from the public and Chinese authorities. According to the latest WHO estimates as of February 2, 2009, the number of H5N1 virus deaths in China totaled 25, ...

Drug Discov Ther. 2008 ;2(5):262-263.

The Japan-China Joint Medical Workshop on Drug Discoveries and Therapeutics 2008 (JCMWDDT 2008) was held from September 29 to October 1, 2008 at The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. JCMWDDT is an international workshop that is mainly organized by Asian editorial members of Drug Discoveries & ...

Drug Discov Ther. 2008 ;2(1):1.

Cancer remains one of the world's most prominent causes of human morbidity and mortality, particularly in developing countries. According to 2005 statistics from the WHO, approximately 7.6 million people died of cancer out of 58 million deaths worldwide, with 9 million people estimated to die ...

Drug Discov Ther. 2007 ;1(2):84-85.

According to Xinhua News, Chen Zhu, China’s Minister of Health, mentioned at the 2007 Annual Conference of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) that an action plan for the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis B could control hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection to below 1% by ...

Drug Discov Ther. 2007 ;1(1):3.

China appears to consistently lag behind developed countries like the US, Japan, and the nations of Europe in the development of pharmaceuticals, putting China in an embarrassing situation. In fact, China is still dependent on foreign imports for most highly effective cures to major diseases such ...