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Ethnic Tibetan doctor Atra, 75, arrived at the hospital at about 10 am, put on his white uniform, and started checking the patients waiting in line. He retired 15 years ago but still offers a voluntary service.

The Beijing Children's Hospital will drive all the stray cats from its compound and clear away the catteries by Thursday, it recently announced.

Milling around the hotel lobby at the Sir Francis Drake hotel in downtown San Francisco are an eclectic group of investors, entrepreneurs and executives from established healthcare companies.

Nearly three years ago China's State Council unveiled its plan to extend healthcare to every Chinese citizen by 2020. The ambitious plan was launched at a time when universal health coverage was building momentum globally. In June 2009 US President Barack Obama outlined his plan for a universal healthcare system in the US, vowing to "give every American quality healthcare". Indeed, most emerging economies have either officially implemented or unveiled blueprints toward universal healthcare. India, for example, also aims to have universal care by 2020.

BEIJING - All hospitals covered by Beijing's medical insurance system have now established hospital information systems, which ensure doctors make correct prescriptions and keep an eye on the use of medical insurance.

A planned "medical city" for east Beijing's Tongzhou district is eyeing the growing demand for high-quality medical services and has set a goal of becoming a medical tourism site. 

Deterioration of doctor-patient relationships has become one of the year's focal events in China, as tensions continue to mount over the intensifying credibility crisis in the country's medical system.

Immersed in the joy of his daughter's birth, first-time father Yang Hong spoke highly of the improved medical service he experienced in the city of Zunyi in southwest China's Guizhou province.

Private doctors have offered to create a volunteer service to help local public hospitals to go through an acute manpower shortage, said the Allied Concern Group on the Standard of Medical Services in Hong Kong on Thursday.

A company launched by Nashville’s Frist family to pursue opportunities in China has tweaked its name and is in talks to acquire three more hospitals in that fast-changing country.

BEIJING - A planned "medical city" for east Beijing's Tongzhou district is eyeing the growing demand for high-quality medical services and has set a goal of becoming a medical tourism site.

CHONGQING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese-Canadian research center for child development and the study of Alzheimer's disease will be built at Chongqing Children's Hospital in southwest China, hospital authorities said Sunday.

China’s first self-designed 10,000-ton-class hospital ship “The Peace Ark” has left China on a 100-day voyage to the Caribbean, where it will visit Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica as part of a mission dubbed “Harmonious Mission 2011” to provide medical services to local residents, according to CRIENGLISH.com

Municipal Health Bureau news: 8 hospitals will soon become the member of the 114 appointment platform as the second batch. The platform is about to achieve the first "expansion".

BEIJING - A remote medical station was established on Tuesday near Yongshu Reef, located in the Nansha Archipelago in the South China Sea, according to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.

BEIJING-- The total fiscal investment of China's government departments at all levels in the basic public health services has topped 65 billion yuan ($10.17 billion) over the past two years, Minister of Health Chen Zhu said at a conference on Thursday.

TIANJIN, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- China will need to spend at least 30 billion yuan (4.69 billion U.S. dollars) over the next 15 years to establish a helicopter rescue system that is capable of serving its 1.3 billion people, experts said Wednesday.

WENCHUAN, Sichuan - Cisco Systems Inc has invested more than $50 million in a three-year program to help Sichuan's post-earthquake regions to set up an advanced networked infrastructure that has greatly improved the standard of local people's healthcare and education services.

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Beijing established a new medical authority on Thursday as part of an ongoing project to change the way the nation's public hospitals operate.

BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese central government has allocated another 18.4 billion yuan (about 2.8 billion U.S. dollars) to a subsidy fund to support the nation's medical reform, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Tuesday.