Chinese study provides evidence for improved stroke treatment

STORY: Chinese study provides evidence for improved stroke treatment DATELINE: Oct. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of doctors and medical staff working at hospitals 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): HU WEI, Neurologist, The First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ADNAN QURESHI, Professor of clinical neurology, University of Missouri School of Medicine STORYLINE: Saturday marks the annual World Stroke Day. Clinicians have found in a new study that removing blood clots within 12 hours after the onset of a stroke can noticeably improve patients' health and reduce death rates. The findings by a Chinese team were reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on Oct. 13. The efforts were led by researchers from the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China. They conducted a randomized, controlled trial involving 340 patients with an average age of 66.5 at 36

Researchers transplant pig organs, tissue in monkeys in China's Xi'an

STORY: Researchers transplant pig organs, tissue in monkeys in China's Xi'an DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the hospital 2. various of the surgery 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DOU KEFENG, Professor of the hospital, academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences 4. various of the surgery STORYLINE: A Chinese research team announced on Tuesday it has transplanted organs and tissue from a gene-edited pig to four monkeys, all of which have been surviving for about 10 days. The xenotransplantation operation was conducted by researchers and clinicians at the Xijing Hospital affiliated to Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, China's Shaanxi Province on Oct. 16. The team transplanted the pig's liver, heart, kidney and its cornea, skin and bone tissue to four monkeys. The transplanted organs and tissue are now in good condition. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DOU KEFENG, Lead researcher "The most difficult part of the surgeries was the transplantatio

GLOBALink | Teachers, students from Chinese medical school pay tribute to body donors

STORY: Teachers, students from Chinese medical school pay tribute to body donors DATELINE: March 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: various of the memorial facilitySOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JIANG HUADONG, Director of human anatomy lab, Zhejiang University School of MedicineSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YU JING, Student, Zhejiang University School of Medicinevarious of flowers and cards STORYLINE: A few days ahead of the traditional Tomb-sweeping Day, teachers and students from the School of Medicine of Zhejiang University in east China paid respect to body donors on Wednesday. At a memorial service, they laid flowers and cards at a monument erected in the university, which bears the names of 1,024 body donors. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JIANG HUADONG, Director of human anatomy lab, Zhejiang University School of Medicine "We call body donors 'silent mentors,' as medical students are learning through anatomy experiments. Before students become clinicians, they have to be train