Posted By Damjan DeNoble Seasoned China watcher and PBS reporter Shannon Van Sant presents a three part special on healthcare in rural China.  Few people have a good sense of the health disparities in China’s part moder part developing population.  Needless to say, the healthcare needs of city residents and the needs of rural residents [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble I had dinner yesterday with good friend Will Bernholz,who is Marketing Director of Etonkids Educational Group International Division, a Montessori early education chain based in Beijing. At some point in our conversation we started talking about the efforts that  EtonKids was undertaking to co-market with private clinics in Beijing.  He explained [...]

Posted by Damjan DeNoble [Note: A response to this article by Dr. Jonathan Seah, former President of ParkwayHealth in China, can be found here.] A few months ago we posted an interview by Shanghai television station ICS with then President (CEO) of ParkwayHealth China & North Asia Division, Dr. Jonathan Seah.   However, shortly after [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble One topic of continuing interest to me is the ways in which new social media like Facebook, Twitter, and any other number of online services, are shaping how health care providers do business, and how they are changing the type of business hospitals are to become. Much like new Health 2.0 [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble Another good example of why stem cell clinics abroad are a dangerous proposition for any would be medical tourist can be found here.  In short, the article author cites a news story by CBS affiliate KFVS in Southern Illinois that expounds on the successful stem cell treatment undergone by one Chuck [...]