Word: chaoyang
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...Here in Chaoyang, an impoverished northeastern Chinese city surrounded by cornfields where farmers still use horse-drawn plows, prehistoric bones have jump-started the economy in a way no free-trade zone or joint venture could have done. The region shot to fame in the mid-1990s when paleontologists began discovering feathered dinosaurs and other well-preserved fossils. They eventually logged at least 500 new species in the area. Good news for scientists, but even better news for an entire generation of farmers, dealers, shop owners, and even local officials who profit from a flourishing underground trade in priceless fossils...
...noticed a series of very serious, official-looking documents pasted up prominently on the wall near the exit. Scanning them, I realized they were the proudly posted announcement of an earlier court judgment in which 23 prominent brand manufacturers sued the Silk Market for counterfeiting. On January 17 the Chaoyang district court in Beijing weighed in with the head-snapping pronouncement that there was not enough evidence of counterfeiting at the Silk Market to convict. As I stood there, a young lady from the stall nearest me pulled at my sleeve, trying to get me to come over and view...
...deny him antibiotics. "Patients often say they want antibiotics even when they don't need them, and then they get angry at the doctors when they try to explain why the drugs won't help," says Dr. Tong Zhaohui, vice director of the respiratory department at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital. To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better?especially if you can get dosed directly through an intravenous line. "They say, 'I want an IV,' and they...
...March, after friends organized a fund-raiser, the Terpstras traveled to Chaoyang hospital in Beijing. There, under local anesthetic, Willie had two holes drilled into the front of her head and about two million cells injected into her brain tissue. Performing the 50-min. operation was neurosurgeon Huang Hongyun, who believes the cells he uses - often wrongly described as stem cells but actually olfactory ensheathing glial cells (oegs) taken from the noses of aborted second-trimester fetuses - can help restore some of the functions stolen by MND and spinal-cord damage. That same day, surrounded by her ecstatic family, Willie...
...Chaoyang hospital in central Beijing is an unlikely place to seek cutting-edge treatment. Orderlies in the shabby five-story building pile surplus furniture in the crowded hallways and push patients around on jerry-rigged gurneys made with bicycle wheels. Yet Nan Davis has traveled halfway around the globe to undergo a new procedure available only here. Six hours ago, Dr. Huang Hongyun injected 1.5 million fetal cells into her damaged spinal cord. Davis, a teacher from Ohio, hasn't walked since 1978 after a car crash left her paralyzed from the bottom of her rib cage down. Shortly after...