Expert guides on medical tourism, treatments, and healthcare in China.
We visited one of China's busiest cardiac surgery centers. Here's what we saw — the technology, the team, and why international patients are choosing it.
Cycle-by-cycle cost breakdown of IVF treatment in China. Medication, procedures, travel, and how it compares to Western pricing.
We sat down with a refractive surgeon at a top Shanghai eye center. His answers might surprise you.
A patient coordinator addresses the most common misconceptions international patients have about getting surgery in China.
We compared hip replacement surgery across 3 countries on price, technology, recovery, and patient experience. Here's what we found.
A 52-year-old American shares his day-by-day experience getting 6 dental implants in Shanghai. Costs, surprises, and honest takeaways.
Line-by-line cost comparison of CAR-T cell therapy in China vs the United States. Drug costs, hospital fees, travel, and total savings.
A neurologist explains why the first few hours after a stroke determine the rest of your life — and why China's top stroke centers are achieving recovery rates that rival anywhere in the world.
When doctors said his BMI was too high to donate a kidney to his dying child, this father lost 50 kilograms in months. A Shanghai hospital's multidisciplinary team then performed the living-donor transplant that gave his son a second chance at life.
A young woman collapsed with the worst headache of her life. Scans revealed a massive cerebral aneurysm at the highest surgical grade. A Shanghai hospital's neurovascular team spent 12 hours dismantling it — and she walked out of the hospital.
PUMCH's hematology team published the first-ever randomized trial showing luspatercept plus cyclosporine achieves 79% response rates in non-transfusion-dependent aplastic anemia — nearly double the standard treatment, especially in elderly patients.
PUMCH's vascular surgery team co-led a 169-patient study identifying two stem cell subtypes in arterial fat tissue that cause atherosclerotic plaques to rupture — the mechanism behind most heart attacks and strokes.
PUMCH's gynecologic oncology team published research revealing that cervical cancer subtypes have fundamentally different immune environments — explaining why PD-1 inhibitors work well for squamous cell carcinoma but fail in adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine types.
Researchers at Tangdu Hospital published a breakthrough in Theranostics — a 3D-printed asymmetric bioadhesive patch that repairs intestinal tissue without sutures, prevents the deadly complication of anastomotic leakage, and blocks post-surgical adhesions.
