A video of 62-year-old Chinese actor Liu Jinshan being treated at a traditional medicine clinic has gone viral, sparking reflection on his three-decade career and the pressures of raising a young daughter late in life.
A 34-year-old stand-up comedian died after an infection following tonsil removal surgery, prompting doctors to explain the real risks of an operation many consider routine. The case has focused attention on consent, post-operative warning signs and the limits of calling any surgery small.
Tech giants are piling into pharmaceuticals, betting that AI can shorten drug discovery and cut failure rates. The question is how much of that promise is real and how much is a familiar boom.
A popular explainer asks whether the bitter well water of ancient Chinese cities was anything like today's tap water. The answer hinges on how much of modern public health is really plumbing, chemistry and a long list of tests.
A 32-year-old biology doctoral candidate in the United States is accused of lacing a colleague's coffee with acrylamide, a common Western blot reagent that attacks nerves. The case has put an ordinary lab chemical under scrutiny and raised questions about how labs track the substances on their shelves.
About 23 million Chinese children are estimated to live with attention problems, yet only around 3 percent ever reach treatment. Doctors say the barrier is rarely diagnosis itself but parents who ask whether it will simply pass.
Chinese researchers combined glowing molecules with a two-dimensional material to build a responsive hydrogel that triggers a controlled form of cell death in choroidal melanoma, a rare cancer inside the eye. The work is early-stage lab science, but it shows how materials chemistry is being aimed at hard-to-treat tumors.
A Chinese essayist describes how Alzheimer's disease takes a parent long before death, leaving families to mourn someone who still sits at the table. The piece, published on a mass-market reading platform, gives a name to a loss Chinese families rarely discuss openly.
A team at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has built a smartphone-linked test strip that screens produce for 6 to 36 pesticide residues in 5 to 15 minutes, replacing days of lab work. The system is designed for farmers, markets and inspectors rather than laboratories.
A Chinese team has run the world's first human trial of chemogenetic neuromodulation, pairing gene therapy with a small-molecule drug so doctors can dial nerve activity up or down. The results appeared in a major medical journal, with outside reviewers calling the adjustable dose the key advance.
A Zhihu explainer traces the disappearance of the intramuscular penicillin injection that once greeted nearly every sick child in Chinese county clinics, arguing that better drug formulations and modern medical infrastructure, not nostalgia, retired it.
Lu Jing, once one of China's most recognized news anchors, left television at her peak in 1990 and later became a broadcasting teacher. Her marriage to an orthopedic surgeon and her father's medical legacy give the story its unusual shape.
In a rare interview on a medical program, actor Hu Ge pulled out a bottle of rapid-relief heart pills and said he carries a defibrillator whenever he travels. The admission has turned a private health habit into a public talking point about middle-aged stars and sudden cardiac risk.
A Chinese commentator argues that China's next big economic lever is not new construction but retrofitting what is already built: factories that need more power and logistics, communities short of elder care and childcare, and offices sitting empty while firms hunt for space.
A viral joke about a clinic sign banning chatbot-diagnosed patients has exposed real friction between Chinese doctors and people who consult AI tools like Doubao before visiting a hospital.
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