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A recent study published in Stroke, the monthly journal of the American Heart Association, points out that people who sit for more than eight hours a day and are physically inactive have a sevenfold higher risk of stroke than those who sit for less than…

Recently, while reading medical news reports, I clipped out some parts I felt were useful, and now I share them with all readers. Researchers from the University of St Andrews in the UK observed the reactions of 30 subjects after being hurt to a certain…

Yesterday, Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the National Health Commission, announced at a press conference of the Healthy China Action Promotion Committee that deaths caused by chronic non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes account for 88% of…

Recently The Lancet published the leading cause of death in China—stroke—and pointed out that this is strongly linked to the Chinese dietary pattern: Chinese people eat far too much salt. I have always eaten lightly. These past few days I have been on vacation with…

Original headline: Chinese and foreign scientists discover a strongly drug-resistant “superbug” gene Xinhua, Beijing, Nov. 23 (Reporter Peng Qian)—Chinese and foreign researchers have recently discovered a “superbug” gene in livestock and in humans that can withstand potent antibiotics, meaning that the “last line of defense”…