The fifth outbreak of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus has struck far and wide in China. The number of cases of infection with the avian influenza A (H7N9) suddenly increased in 2013-2014, but the number of cases reported this winter has exceeded the number reported in all ...

Since the first outbreak of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus was identified in 2013, five seasonal outbreaks have occurred in China. The fifth outbreak started earlier than usual. A sudden increase in cases of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus has been ...

Three years after the identification of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia, the first case of MERS in China was reported on May 29, 2015. Although the Chinese government issued the MERS Prevention and Control Plan in 2013, a novel edition was released on June ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved a new diagnostic code, "5B72 Undernutrition in Adults", in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Prior to this update, undernutrition in adults was represented only by the code "5B54 Underweight in Adults". ...

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, ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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 ...