I’m very pleased that December ended on a high note for MyHealthBeijing, and I am very thankful to all my readers. This last month had interviews in China Daily, CityWeekend Beijing, and Radio Beijing. Now there is a Spotlight interview in the current bi-monthly Agenda magazine (Doctor Richard Speaks – Interview with MD Richard Saint Cyr, …

Last week I had the pleasure of a long 20 minute radio interview with Chloe from Radio Beijing, the bilingual radio station. Playing on AM radio 774 as well as the internet, they are part of the NetFM group. They have a weekly City Rhythm broadcast, and last week we had a good talk about preventive medicine …

Happy Holidays from MyHealthBeijing! I’ll be taking a few days off these next couple weeks. I wish you all a wonderful time and hope we all take advantage of these days to remember that our loved ones always come first…

I’m very flattered that CityWeekend has noticed my website and recently interviewed me for their latest edition, available now. You can view the article online here.

Today is World AIDS Day, and local newspapers are providing good information online today. The Global Times has a nice series of articles reviewing the situation in China (Global Times – A nation of ghost whispers.) The gist of the story centers on the stigma attached to HIV positive people here, and the strong discrimination …

I’m very pleased to report that today’s China Daily has an interview and article about my website. It’s in the Metro section, lead article, part of a review of the air quality and automobile situation in Beijing. Here is the website link to the article.

I am very proud to report that this website has been peer-reviewed by the NGO Health On the Net Foundation, and was certified for inclusion in their HONcode list of the most ethical and trustworthy medical websites. More information from them: HON has been created for improving the quality of information intended to both patients …

It’s impossible for me to ignore the health care debate raging in my home country. One constant theme in the U.S. regarding improving health care is the need for better monitoring of what hospitals and doctors actually do, and which treatments actually work. This is not at all easy to do, but some doctors and …

The human body is truly a miracle, and every doctor should be humble enough to admit that there’s a lot we don’t know about how it all works, much less how best to cure disease. Cancer is one the last great scourges of our age, and the past decades have seen slow progress on many …

Diabetes can be a terrible disease for people; it’s a chronic disease that involves not just medicines but aggressive lifestyle changes as well as intrusive and painful glucose checks, not to mention the insulin injections. And the long term effects on your body can be devastating — nerve pain, foot infections and amputations, kidney failure, …

The hepatitis B virus is one of those dangerous viruses that can cause chronic disease; this one attacks the liver, and after many years can cause liver failure (cirrhosis), liver cancer and death. Unfortunately, in China this disease is extremely common, with an estimated 10% of Chinese infected for life. In China, most people get …

There’s an interesting new study published in Lancet this week; in China, the #1 killer is hypertension. This, along with stroke, are common killers all over the world. The problem in China is that treatment levels are much lower than in other countries, especially in rural areas. An easy thing to help high blood pressure …