BREAKING NEWS: Paediatricians don’t catch colds. So scientists decided to investigate their blood—and found a “treasure trove” of 56 antibodies, it was revealed today.
These will be developed to create treatments to help everyone fight respiratory diseases, including severe ones that can kill small children and older people.
Hui Zhai and his team at the…

Chinese medicine
A MUSHROOM USED in ancient Chinese remedies successfully battles colorectal cancer, the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths across the world, scientists at a traditional Chinese medicine conference in Hong Kong said this week.
It has long been believed that a Chinese mushroom with the scientific name of Amauroderma rugosum has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective,…
AN ANCIENT ASIAN remedy is becoming popular worldwide – just do a web search on “Psyllium Husks” to see how much it is being talked about. In medical dispensaries around the world, it can be found formed into a pill called Metamucil, but more than 200 new psyllium husk products have been launched in the…
THE DOCTOR WAS BAFFLED. His patient, a nurse, had severe problems with his sleep patterns. But neither western medicine nor Chinese medicine had helped.
The medical man, whose name was Bian Zhaoxiang, listened carefully to the patient’s description of his symptoms and his lifestyle, and prescribed medications he thought would help.
But they didn’t. …
