The 800-year-old Lugou Bridge in Southwest of Beijing, recorded in the travelogue of Marco Polo, is suffering damages in its beautiful lion sculptures because of weathering.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved Tyzeka (telbivudine) for the treatment of adults with chronic hepatitis B (HBV), a serious viral infection.

Bayer HealthCare (BHC) will spend more than 1 billion yuan (about 125 million U.S. dollars) to acquire the Western over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold portfolio of China's Qidong Gaitianli Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., BHC and Qidong's holding company Topsun jointly announced here on Wednesday.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has extended by one month the deadline for the ongoing student essay competition on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific, said ADB in a news release Wednesday.

Hepatitis C is now a major public health threat in China and health departments must do more to raise public awareness of the disease, an expert said here Wednesday.

A new survey shows that men in Shanghai, China's most affluent city, are not only more likely to get rich, but also are more likely to have a satisfying sex life.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for industry investment in improved diagnostic methods for tuberculosis (TB), which still causes many deaths, especially in developing countries.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a 700-year-old rare moat surrounding a monastery in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Between 3,000 to 6,000 women in Kenya die of pregnancy related complications every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

The quarantine imposed on an area in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which was hit by an outbreak of bird flu last month, has been lifted, local authorities announced on Wednesday.