Mental illness troubles more than 30 million young Chinese, yet their mental health care is often neglected in families and by society, say mental health care experts on World Mental Health Day on Tuesday.

Tell a farmer living in a remote village: Don't be surprised if one day he comes up with someone who used to be the personal doctor to the late "Great Leader" Chairman Mao, in the near future.

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday urged the abolition of death penalty across the world, saying the capital punishment is inhuman.

China's Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that it is impossible for China to create an exact imitation of another country's health system as it bids to reform its own failing health service.

Rabies killed more people in China than any other infectious disease for the fifth consecutive month in September.

China's Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an has labeled a foreign media report that says organs of executed prisoners are being traded in China as "irresponsible".

China's Health Ministry spokesman lambasted a netizens's controversial idea that traditional Chinese medicine be taken out the country's health care system.

October 10 marks World Mental Health Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) called for attention to suicide as a leading cause of premature and preventable death.

China's Ministry of Health has moved to dissuade people from undergoing leg-lengthening surgery following recent reports of patients' legs becoming disfigured after the operation.

A high-level forum on the preservation and development of Tibetan culture opened in Beijing on Tuesday.