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A common Chinese herb danshen (丹参, Salvia miltiorrhiza) may help patients with severe acute pancreatitis, in which the pancrease is dying from the acute inflammation, by controlling the serum levels of cytokines that play a key role in advancing inflammation to mulitple organs.

China's national bird selection is creating a flap with the public. It's not about the bird, but its name.

The country's State Forestry Administration (SFA) suggested the avian symbol of China should be the dandinghe in Chinese, otherwise known as the Japanese crane, but people aren't happy with its associations with Japan.

Health experts say tobacco consumption is hitting alarming rates in China. World health officials estimate that one-third of the male population under the age of 29 is likely to die from tobacco-related illnesses. But officials in the communist government have said the country - the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco products - cannot afford to stop smoking. VOA's Luis Ramirez has more from Beijing.

As "The Laowai Death Stare" is having so much success in the hao!hao! report, I thought we could draw some attention on another post on the same subject and that i find even more funny (and interesting!).
Learn about the "Marco Polo Syndrome"!

A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China.

The long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.

The UBC Centre for Reproductive Health, which takes credit for Canada’s first in vitro–fertilization baby, born in 1983, is collaborating with Acubalance Wellness Centre–which focuses exclusively on the role of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in reproductive health–for an integrated approach to infertility.

In careful adherence to China’s laws that prohibit evangelizing, the Bible is not on sale in mainstream Chinese bookshops but through a distribution system managed by the official church, such as stalls set up for people attending morning service, according to the Times of London report.

A girl who worked for the Kappa brand of clothing inside an Orient Shopping Centre in Shanghai suddenly becomes famous when her sex video is spread on the internet. Some Chinese netizens attack her while others argue that what she did was very normal except it was made public.