China's Top Ten Medical News For 2002

2004-06-13 15:07

On December 30, 2002, China's top ten medical news selected under the joint sponsorship of the Chinese Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology were unveiled. They are:
* China has forcefully curbed leprosy development in the country on the basis on several — decade efforts, and its leprosy study was granted with the First Prize of National S&T Advancement Award for 2001.
* China launched the world largest international project for comprehensive AIDS studies. The project is independently chaired by Chinese scientists in collaboration with their US counterparts.
* New progresses were achieved in the studies of diseases related genes in the country, such as nasal and pharynx cancer genes positioning, the discovery of venerable genes for diabetes II and the successful cloning of osteoporosis genes.
* China worked out the roadmap for epidemic diseases distributions in the country. The roadmap has shown that the overall occurrences of epidemic diseases went down at a large margin in the last decade.
* China's traditional medical studies have harvested rich achievements such as the completed compilation of "Grand Dictionary for China's Traditional Medicine Literatures", a basic summary of China's ancient traditional medicine literatures, the discovery that channels in traditional medical theory constitute a function tuning and control system, and molecular biological study of Chinese traditional medicinal herbs' effects and associated mechanism
* Experts of Beijing Xuanwu Hospital have successfully saved and treated Liu Hairuo, a renowned anchor of Hong Kong based Phoenix TV with combined Chinese traditional and western medicines.
* Chinese Second Military Medical School worked out the enhanced glycin — azole — natrium drug for chemotherapy, a national class I new drug, and the finding was granted with the gold medal for invention jointly issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization and Chinese Intellectual Property Bureau.
* China made the debut of the world first numerical simulated man, which marked a major progress achieved in the numerical study of human body in the country. * China published the Outlines for Traditional Medicine Modernization and Development and made huge investments in promoting the modernization of Chinese traditional medicines and associated industrial process.
* China's hepatitis prevention and control efforts have achieved phased breakthroughs such as live hepatitis A vaccine freezing technique, molecular study of hepatitis C and successful development of hepatitis C protein chips.

New Server for the National S&T Library

On December 25, 2002, the new network server system was put into operation at the National S&T Library Center. Equipped with a high speed broad band and multiple service functions, the system connects the network management center to its member websites through a lOOOMbps optic network and makes itself a high caliber online platform with an output band width of 100 Mbps. Having connected with other national institutions such as the National Library, CERNET, CSTNET and the Information Institute of Chinese Military Logistics Department, the new server system has created agreeable conditions for further promoting joint development and sharing S&T information. In addition to its original functions such as secondary retrieving and originals reprinting, the new system has been added with other improved functions such as online public archive catalogs (OPAC), foreign language journals surfing, online experts consultation and special information services.