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China is considering stepping up Massage in Beijing maritime patrols in the South China Sea as it looks to shore up its territorial claims in the region, state media has reported.
A senior official told Thursday's edition of the China Daily the proposal followed increased incidents of illegal fishing and what he called "other countries' unfounded territorial claims".
Wu Zhuang, director of the Administration of Fishery and Fishing Harbor Supervision of the South China Sea, said that in response Beijing was considering converting naval ships into fishery patrol vessels.
"China will make the best use of its naval ships… and may also build more fishery patrol ships, depending on the need," the China Daily quoted him as saying.
Earlier this week sent its largest fishery patrol ship, Yuzheng 311, to the waters around the Spratly Islands, a cluster of islets and atolls that lie north of the island of Borneo.
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The deployment came amid a renewed focus on the disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea, and follows a recent confrontation between Chinese vessels and a US naval ship in the area.
Beijing's South China Sea claims Washington has lodged a formal protest with Beijing over the incident and said its ship, the USS Impeccable, was operating in international waters.
The US has since dispatched destroyers to operate as an escort for the unarmed surveillance ship.
China says the Impeccable was operating illegally in what it claims as its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
Announcing the proposed increase in patrols in Thursday's China Daily, Wu was quoted as saying the steps were aimed at protecting "China's rights and interests".
As well as being surrounded by rich fishing grounds, the Spratly islands are also thought to have significant oil and gas Massage in Beijing deposits.
In addition the islands straddle strategically important Asian shipping lanes, with over half the world oil tanker traffic passing through the area and 80 per cent of China's oil imports.
The Spratlys are claimed by China and in full or in part by Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, several of whom have recently moved to bolster their own claims to the islands.
Last week the government of the Philippines passed a law laying claim to some of the disputed islands in the Spratlys chain.
Beijing has called the law "illegal and invalid", but many in the Philippines and elsewhere in the region see China's increased patrols as a flexing of its military might.
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Official: US ship in scrape now has armed escort
Official: US ship in scrape now has armed escort
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has assigned a heavily armed destroyer to Massage in Beijing the U.S. surveillance ship that got into a high-seas confrontation with Chinese ships last weekend.
A defense official says the Hawaii-based destroyer "Chung-Hoon" is keeping a close eye on the unarmed sub-hunting ship "Impeccable" as it continues operations in the South China Sea. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive ship movements.
The official says the escort ship joined the Impeccable on Wednesday.
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China has demanded that the United States quit surveillance work in a disputed area far off the Chinese coastline. U.S. officials say they won't back off.
The Chung-Hoon is Massage in Beijing among the Navy's newest and most sophisticated warships. It joined the fleet in 2004.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has assigned a heavily armed destroyer to Massage in Beijing the U.S. surveillance ship that got into a high-seas confrontation with Chinese ships last weekend.
A defense official says the Hawaii-based destroyer "Chung-Hoon" is keeping a close eye on the unarmed sub-hunting ship "Impeccable" as it continues operations in the South China Sea. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive ship movements.
The official says the escort ship joined the Impeccable on Wednesday.
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China has demanded that the United States quit surveillance work in a disputed area far off the Chinese coastline. U.S. officials say they won't back off.
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Gates hopes to call off escorts in South China Massage in Beijing Sea
Gates hopes to call off escorts in South China Massage in Beijing Sea
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said he did not think China was trying to prevent the US Navy from operating in the South China Sea and expressed hope armed escorts of surveillance ships would not be needed in the future.
The US Navy said it had decided to send in destroyers to escort surveillance ships in the South China Sea after an incident last week in which Chinese ships allegedly surrounded and harassed an American ship, the USNS Impeccable.
"No, I don't think that they're trying to push the Seventh Fleet out of that area," Gates told a news conference when asked about the incident.
"I hope, based on the diplomatic exchanges that have taken place since the aggressive acts against the Impeccable, will mean that there won't be a repetition of this.
"So it would make it unnecessary to send warships."
China accused the United States of spying in an "economic exclusion zone" while Washington insisted its ship was operating in international waters.
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Gates confirmed he did not use a newly established military hotline between the United States and China over the naval standoff, and said he hoped the incident in the South China Sea would not damage military ties with Massage in Beijing .
"I think that one of the concerns that I have about Impeccable is that my impression was that the military relationship was steadily improving," he said.
"And I would like to see us put this behind us, not have another incident like it, and continue that improvement in the relationship."
The confrontation was described by US intelligence director Dennis Blair as the most serious military incident involving the two powers since a US spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet near Hainan island in April 2001.
China meanwhile dispatched its most modern patrol ship to the South China Sea, state press reported Sunday.
The Beijing News said the vessel would conduct patrols of what it called China's exclusive maritime zone in the disputed waters surrounding the Paracel and Spratly Islands.
China has long expressed displeasure with US surveillance operations in waters it considers its "economic exclusion zone" and has had Chinese ships and planes approach US naval vessels in such areas in the past.
The USNS Impeccable is designed Massage in Beijing to track submarines with underwater sonar.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said he did not think China was trying to prevent the US Navy from operating in the South China Sea and expressed hope armed escorts of surveillance ships would not be needed in the future.
The US Navy said it had decided to send in destroyers to escort surveillance ships in the South China Sea after an incident last week in which Chinese ships allegedly surrounded and harassed an American ship, the USNS Impeccable.
"No, I don't think that they're trying to push the Seventh Fleet out of that area," Gates told a news conference when asked about the incident.
"I hope, based on the diplomatic exchanges that have taken place since the aggressive acts against the Impeccable, will mean that there won't be a repetition of this.
"So it would make it unnecessary to send warships."
China accused the United States of spying in an "economic exclusion zone" while Washington insisted its ship was operating in international waters.
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Gates confirmed he did not use a newly established military hotline between the United States and China over the naval standoff, and said he hoped the incident in the South China Sea would not damage military ties with Massage in Beijing .
"I think that one of the concerns that I have about Impeccable is that my impression was that the military relationship was steadily improving," he said.
"And I would like to see us put this behind us, not have another incident like it, and continue that improvement in the relationship."
The confrontation was described by US intelligence director Dennis Blair as the most serious military incident involving the two powers since a US spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet near Hainan island in April 2001.
China meanwhile dispatched its most modern patrol ship to the South China Sea, state press reported Sunday.
The Beijing News said the vessel would conduct patrols of what it called China's exclusive maritime zone in the disputed waters surrounding the Paracel and Spratly Islands.
China has long expressed displeasure with US surveillance operations in waters it considers its "economic exclusion zone" and has had Chinese ships and planes approach US naval vessels in such areas in the past.
The USNS Impeccable is designed Massage in Beijing to track submarines with underwater sonar.
US warships head for China after Massage in Beijing spat
US warships head for China after Massage in Beijing spat
WASHINGTON: A potential conflict is brewing in the South China Sea after the United States dispatched heavily armed American destroyers to the scene of a naval standoff between the US and China at the weekend.
The US has decided to provide heavily armed destroyers to escort US surveillance ships operating in the South China Sea, a US official said on Thursday. "Right now they are going to escort these types of ships for the foreseeable future," the defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.
The US government has said Chinese boats moved directly in front of the US navy surveillance vessel Massage in Beijing Impeccable on Sunday, forcing the ship to take emergency action to avoid a collision.
A day after the incident, the 'USS Chung-Hoon' destroyer accompanied the Impeccable, an unarmed ship designed to track submarines, in the same area, the official said. Since Sunday's high-seas standoff, there have been no incidents of harassment from Chinese boats or aircraft, he said.
On a day that President Barack Obama and his senior officials met the Chinese foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, in Washington, Beijing showed no sign of backing down. Its military chiefs accused the unarmed US navy ship of being on a spying mission.
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WASHINGTON: A potential conflict is brewing in the South China Sea after the United States dispatched heavily armed American destroyers to the scene of a naval standoff between the US and China at the weekend.
The US has decided to provide heavily armed destroyers to escort US surveillance ships operating in the South China Sea, a US official said on Thursday. "Right now they are going to escort these types of ships for the foreseeable future," the defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.
The US government has said Chinese boats moved directly in front of the US navy surveillance vessel Massage in Beijing Impeccable on Sunday, forcing the ship to take emergency action to avoid a collision.
A day after the incident, the 'USS Chung-Hoon' destroyer accompanied the Impeccable, an unarmed ship designed to track submarines, in the same area, the official said. Since Sunday's high-seas standoff, there have been no incidents of harassment from Chinese boats or aircraft, he said.
On a day that President Barack Obama and his senior officials met the Chinese foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, in Washington, Beijing showed no sign of backing down. Its military chiefs accused the unarmed US navy ship of being on a spying mission.
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Qingdao to host large-scale Chinese Naval parade in massage in beijing April
Qingdao to host large-scale Chinese Naval parade in massage in beijing April
This April, the Chinese Navy will hold a large-scale maritime parade in Qingdao, Shandong Province. This information Massage in Beijing was disclosed by Wang Fushan, Deputy Commander of the North China Sea Fleet in an interview on the morning of March 4.
To commemorate the founding of the Chinese Navy on April 23, 1949 Wang said, "The Navy will hold a series of naval activities... We have sent invitation letters to members of the international community to attend the maritime parade to be held in April."
Records show that on April 23, 1949, the Second Fleet of the Kuomingtang Navy staged an uprising led by Rear Admiral Lin Zun, commander of the fleet. On the same day, the Navy of the East China Military Area Command--the first naval force of the People's Liberation Army (PLA)--announced its founding. Hence, April 23 was proclaimed to be the founding day of the PLA Navy. massageescortBeijing MassageShanghai massageShanghai EscortShanghai massageShanghai Escortmassage in shenzhen massage shenzhen massage in guangzhou massage guangzhou massage in shanghai massage in shanghai shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort
Over the 60 years since the founding of New China, the Navy has not had much of a chance to display its image in the international arena. Its deployment of three warships to the Somali waters to carry out escort missions at the end of last year was its most high profile military action in the past 20 years. Regarding the presence of officers and soldiers from the naval convoy as the focus of the maritime parade in April, Wang said that he still did not know.
Wang confirmed that the parade will be held in Qingdao. The venue, Qingdao is a natural top choice for a naval parade. It was a co-hosting city for the Massage in Beijing Olympics, and has a splendid landscape and excellent international image.
This April, the Chinese Navy will hold a large-scale maritime parade in Qingdao, Shandong Province. This information Massage in Beijing was disclosed by Wang Fushan, Deputy Commander of the North China Sea Fleet in an interview on the morning of March 4.
To commemorate the founding of the Chinese Navy on April 23, 1949 Wang said, "The Navy will hold a series of naval activities... We have sent invitation letters to members of the international community to attend the maritime parade to be held in April."
Records show that on April 23, 1949, the Second Fleet of the Kuomingtang Navy staged an uprising led by Rear Admiral Lin Zun, commander of the fleet. On the same day, the Navy of the East China Military Area Command--the first naval force of the People's Liberation Army (PLA)--announced its founding. Hence, April 23 was proclaimed to be the founding day of the PLA Navy. massageescortBeijing MassageShanghai massageShanghai EscortShanghai massageShanghai Escortmassage in shenzhen massage shenzhen massage in guangzhou massage guangzhou massage in shanghai massage in shanghai shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage shanghai massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage beijing massage shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort shanghai escort
Over the 60 years since the founding of New China, the Navy has not had much of a chance to display its image in the international arena. Its deployment of three warships to the Somali waters to carry out escort missions at the end of last year was its most high profile military action in the past 20 years. Regarding the presence of officers and soldiers from the naval convoy as the focus of the maritime parade in April, Wang said that he still did not know.
Wang confirmed that the parade will be held in Qingdao. The venue, Qingdao is a natural top choice for a naval parade. It was a co-hosting city for the Massage in Beijing Olympics, and has a splendid landscape and excellent international image.
Out of Beijing bedlam and into Hanoi massage in beijing heaven
Out of Beijing bedlam and into Hanoi massage in beijing heaven
There is no cereal, no yoghurt, no fruit, no juice: just Massage in Beijing tea and coffee, a slab of yellow sponge that has egg-like qualities, bread so hard you could tile the roof of the Forbidden City and some soggy waffles and syrup.
Hiding at the end of the breakfast display, which features whole pumpkins and plastic strawberries, is a large bowl of steaming oatmeal. Oh joy. I ask the ever-smiling but clueless girl in an apron behind the counter for two scoops and to ladle in some syrup.
The first mouthful is so disgusting I spit it out. It's syrup, but not as we know it. They must have run out of syrup, too, and replaced it with peanut oil. Well, it looks the same and is of like consistency, and they probably figure we'll never know the difference.
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Suffice to say that after working for 31 days straight from 8am to midnight at the Olympics I am jack of Beijing and the food. Next stop is Vietnam for some much-needed R&R. On the three-hour flight to Hanoi I dream of fluffy croissants, baguettes, green mango salad, caramelised fish, French wine and cheese. Hmmm, cheese.
Without warning the Hanoi Massage in Beijing taxi driver pulls over midway to the hotel and starts gibbering that in addition to the airport-to-city flat fee we have to pay him a toll.
The driver is trying it on and rather than just smile and nod, knowing the hotel staff would sort him out at the other end, I start arguing the toss over what amounts to $5. It is madness, but that's what happens when you haven't had a day off for a month.
The meet-and-greet staff at the Hanoi InterContinental Westlake see off the pesky taxi driver much as annoyed parents would dismiss a misbehaving child and they scoop me up like a bird that has hit a glass panel.
I cry when we finally shut the door on our hotel room because it is just so quiet and clean and beautiful.
The Hanoi InterContinental is a new, low-rise resort-style hotel 10 minutes by taxi from the heaving city metropolis and 30 minutes from the airport. It is built out over smooth and still West Lake, Hanoi's largest, and the view from our balcony is cool and calming.
For the next three days I don't leave the hotel; everything I need is inside its protected walls and the staff treat me like royalty recovering from surgery.
After the horror of my peanut oil-laced porridge in Beijing, my first breakfast at the InterContinential is sublime. Butter-drenched crunchy croissants, silky smoked salmon, fluffy eggs that taste like eggs and discreet staff who make coffee to die for. Breakfast proves so exhausting I have to go back to bed until lunch, and so begins a worrying routine whereby for three days I revert to an infant's schedule. Breakfast, sleep; lunch, sleep; dinner, sleep. A swim, Massage Beijing and lakeside cocktails are squeezed into my few waking hours.
I begin fantasising how cool it would be to live permanently in the hotel. I could go to a different restaurant every night, each within five minutes of my bedroom door. Vietnamese tonight? No, let's do Italian. Or French. Don't mind as long as it's not Chinese. And I could drink as much wine as I liked because the staff would always be on hand to steer this invalid back to her room. I could while away the afternoons by the pool or in the library studying the life and works of Renoir and his impressive friends from large, handsome books that never collect any dust.
I could get fit again in the gym and do laps in the pool. I could watch the latest movies, surf the net on my balcony, retreat to the lake each evening for sunset drinks ...
By day four this surreal fog begins to lift and I am starting to feel I could leave my island oasis without combusting into an argument with a taxi driver or walking into a glass panel.
It must be time to see Massage in Beijing Hanoi.
There is no cereal, no yoghurt, no fruit, no juice: just Massage in Beijing tea and coffee, a slab of yellow sponge that has egg-like qualities, bread so hard you could tile the roof of the Forbidden City and some soggy waffles and syrup.
Hiding at the end of the breakfast display, which features whole pumpkins and plastic strawberries, is a large bowl of steaming oatmeal. Oh joy. I ask the ever-smiling but clueless girl in an apron behind the counter for two scoops and to ladle in some syrup.
The first mouthful is so disgusting I spit it out. It's syrup, but not as we know it. They must have run out of syrup, too, and replaced it with peanut oil. Well, it looks the same and is of like consistency, and they probably figure we'll never know the difference.
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Suffice to say that after working for 31 days straight from 8am to midnight at the Olympics I am jack of Beijing and the food. Next stop is Vietnam for some much-needed R&R. On the three-hour flight to Hanoi I dream of fluffy croissants, baguettes, green mango salad, caramelised fish, French wine and cheese. Hmmm, cheese.
Without warning the Hanoi Massage in Beijing taxi driver pulls over midway to the hotel and starts gibbering that in addition to the airport-to-city flat fee we have to pay him a toll.
The driver is trying it on and rather than just smile and nod, knowing the hotel staff would sort him out at the other end, I start arguing the toss over what amounts to $5. It is madness, but that's what happens when you haven't had a day off for a month.
The meet-and-greet staff at the Hanoi InterContinental Westlake see off the pesky taxi driver much as annoyed parents would dismiss a misbehaving child and they scoop me up like a bird that has hit a glass panel.
I cry when we finally shut the door on our hotel room because it is just so quiet and clean and beautiful.
The Hanoi InterContinental is a new, low-rise resort-style hotel 10 minutes by taxi from the heaving city metropolis and 30 minutes from the airport. It is built out over smooth and still West Lake, Hanoi's largest, and the view from our balcony is cool and calming.
For the next three days I don't leave the hotel; everything I need is inside its protected walls and the staff treat me like royalty recovering from surgery.
After the horror of my peanut oil-laced porridge in Beijing, my first breakfast at the InterContinential is sublime. Butter-drenched crunchy croissants, silky smoked salmon, fluffy eggs that taste like eggs and discreet staff who make coffee to die for. Breakfast proves so exhausting I have to go back to bed until lunch, and so begins a worrying routine whereby for three days I revert to an infant's schedule. Breakfast, sleep; lunch, sleep; dinner, sleep. A swim, Massage Beijing and lakeside cocktails are squeezed into my few waking hours.
I begin fantasising how cool it would be to live permanently in the hotel. I could go to a different restaurant every night, each within five minutes of my bedroom door. Vietnamese tonight? No, let's do Italian. Or French. Don't mind as long as it's not Chinese. And I could drink as much wine as I liked because the staff would always be on hand to steer this invalid back to her room. I could while away the afternoons by the pool or in the library studying the life and works of Renoir and his impressive friends from large, handsome books that never collect any dust.
I could get fit again in the gym and do laps in the pool. I could watch the latest movies, surf the net on my balcony, retreat to the lake each evening for sunset drinks ...
By day four this surreal fog begins to lift and I am starting to feel I could leave my island oasis without combusting into an argument with a taxi driver or walking into a glass panel.
It must be time to see Massage in Beijing Hanoi.
To China for Massage in Beijing a cure
To China for Massage in Beijing a cure
China is not normally considered a world leader in surgical advances, but according to a number of its doctors (and the Canadian patients they’ve treated), it has leapfrogged ahead in stem cell treatments. A growing number of people are travelling to China for a $30,000 experimental treatment: stem cell injections. Most, like New Brunswicker Jean Christophe Haas, 40, decide to go because they have a debilitating illness and there isn’t much that Western medicine can do for them.
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ShareThis Print Story Comment article tools sponsor Haas has Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), a terminal neuromuscular Massage in Beijing disease that affects the body in a similar way to Parkinson’s, paralyzing it gradually. Although he was diagnosed 20 years ago, it took some years for the symptoms to become noticeable. At first, only his sense of balance and his coordination were affected. Then his speech began to suffer and he started slurring his words. In 2004, he had to stop work as an army mechanic because his motor skills were no longer up to par and, in the past couple of years, he started seeing double. His family felt an overwhelming sense of panic, especially because Haas’s mother had the same disease, and his grandmother died of it. His desperation was compounded by the sense that Canadian doctors had given up on him completely; one told him there was nothing to do but to accept his fate of an early death, says his wife, Cherie Haas. “It’s awful for a young man with a family to go in and hear that. It’s heartbreaking.”
Ms. Haas searched the Web and found stories of other MJD patients who seemed to have been helped by stem cell therapy at various Chinese hospitals. Many of these good news stories are posted on personal blogs or on the websites of the clinics offering the treatments. There are thousands of these testimonials, suggesting that hundreds of people go every year, says Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, who has published studies on this issue.
Advertising on the Internet, these Chinese medical centres promise to treat a surprisingly extensive range of diseases and conditions, including ALS, autism, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, spinal muscular atrophy, septo-optic dysplasia (which can cause seeing difficulties, blindness and mental retardation), spinal cord injuries and stroke. Foreigners are a major source of funds for the clinics. Some doctors like Dr. Huang Hongyun, a neuroscientist at Beijing Xishan Hospital, have treated many patients from outside China, including some from Canada, and he has published a number of papers in Chinese medical journals tracking patients pre- and post-procedure. And yet some North American doctors are critical of how the data was compiled, and skeptical of the treatments on offer.
Once Jean Haas decided to go, he told his plans to Guy Rouleau, a neurologist at Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, who said there were slight risks of complications, and that it would probably be a waste of money. But otherwise he didn’t try to dissuade him. Raising the money for the trip was easier than expected: much of the town of Oromocto, N.B., pitched in to raise the $30,000, with neighbours’ kids shovelling driveways to help out, and the military and community organizations hosting breakfasts and fundraisers. In April 2007, he and his wife travelled to Shenzhen, China, and stayed a little more than a month. During that time, Haas had six injections of stem cells into his spine, and an intense program of physiotherapy, exercise, Massage Beijing and acupuncture. The results were immediate, he says—his balance improved just a few hours after the first procedure. Back in Canada, his neurologist confirmed that Haas had indeed gotten better: he had about 10 to 15 per cent more movement, according to Rouleau, who examined him before and after the trip. It’s difficult to speculate why this occurred, but Rouleau believes the intense physiotherapy was the primary cause.
When the couple returned from China, Massage in Beijing wrote about their experience on the Web. Word got around, and soon hundreds of people were calling them, Cherie says. A couple whose husband had a similar neurodegenerative disease even drove from Quebec to see them, and the man subsequently decided to make the stem cell trip. Another couple flew in from Taber, Alta., and decided to go to China after seeing the home videos of Haas’s progress. Those gains were partly due to the attitude of Chinese doctors, Cherie believes. They would tell Haas to push himself to his limit and even try to “retrain his brain,” she explains. “We saw miracles while we were over there. We put the word out because I know this works.”
Even if patients experience gains, it’s important to determine whether they are from the treatment, the exercise program or a more positive frame of mind. Any advances could be merely the placebo effect, as people often feel better after being treated, even if the procedure hasn’t worked and the gains won’t last, explains John Steeves, a professor at the college for interdisciplinary studies at the University of British Columbia who specializes in spinal cord injuries. Finding out whether any treatment really works requires clinical trials, and although Dr. Huang has published the results of his trials in Chinese medical journals, this data does not conform to international standards of medical analysis. Indeed, Steeves believes Huang deliberately flouts these standards to help his bottom line. “Dr. Huang has no interest doing a valid clinical trial because if it doesn’t give him good results, his income would dry up immediately,” he says from his Vancouver office.
Patients, like Haas, who seem to have been helped by stem cell treatments, are often eager to share their stories. They may become advocates for the Chinese medical centres; Haas’s story is publicized on the website of the company that organized his medical tourism trip. By contrast, it’s more difficult to find people who haven’t gotten better, or are worse after spending $30,000 on an experimental procedure. This might be because they feel duped, or because the Chinese stem cell treatment emphasizes empowerment—a “you Massage in Beijing can do it attitude.” Those who can’t “do it,” who go through the rigorous training program and end up no better off, may feel unlucky, cheated, or they may take the lack of success personally and feel that they have somehow failed.
China is not normally considered a world leader in surgical advances, but according to a number of its doctors (and the Canadian patients they’ve treated), it has leapfrogged ahead in stem cell treatments. A growing number of people are travelling to China for a $30,000 experimental treatment: stem cell injections. Most, like New Brunswicker Jean Christophe Haas, 40, decide to go because they have a debilitating illness and there isn’t much that Western medicine can do for them.
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ShareThis Print Story Comment article tools sponsor Haas has Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), a terminal neuromuscular Massage in Beijing disease that affects the body in a similar way to Parkinson’s, paralyzing it gradually. Although he was diagnosed 20 years ago, it took some years for the symptoms to become noticeable. At first, only his sense of balance and his coordination were affected. Then his speech began to suffer and he started slurring his words. In 2004, he had to stop work as an army mechanic because his motor skills were no longer up to par and, in the past couple of years, he started seeing double. His family felt an overwhelming sense of panic, especially because Haas’s mother had the same disease, and his grandmother died of it. His desperation was compounded by the sense that Canadian doctors had given up on him completely; one told him there was nothing to do but to accept his fate of an early death, says his wife, Cherie Haas. “It’s awful for a young man with a family to go in and hear that. It’s heartbreaking.”
Ms. Haas searched the Web and found stories of other MJD patients who seemed to have been helped by stem cell therapy at various Chinese hospitals. Many of these good news stories are posted on personal blogs or on the websites of the clinics offering the treatments. There are thousands of these testimonials, suggesting that hundreds of people go every year, says Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, who has published studies on this issue.
Advertising on the Internet, these Chinese medical centres promise to treat a surprisingly extensive range of diseases and conditions, including ALS, autism, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, spinal muscular atrophy, septo-optic dysplasia (which can cause seeing difficulties, blindness and mental retardation), spinal cord injuries and stroke. Foreigners are a major source of funds for the clinics. Some doctors like Dr. Huang Hongyun, a neuroscientist at Beijing Xishan Hospital, have treated many patients from outside China, including some from Canada, and he has published a number of papers in Chinese medical journals tracking patients pre- and post-procedure. And yet some North American doctors are critical of how the data was compiled, and skeptical of the treatments on offer.
Once Jean Haas decided to go, he told his plans to Guy Rouleau, a neurologist at Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, who said there were slight risks of complications, and that it would probably be a waste of money. But otherwise he didn’t try to dissuade him. Raising the money for the trip was easier than expected: much of the town of Oromocto, N.B., pitched in to raise the $30,000, with neighbours’ kids shovelling driveways to help out, and the military and community organizations hosting breakfasts and fundraisers. In April 2007, he and his wife travelled to Shenzhen, China, and stayed a little more than a month. During that time, Haas had six injections of stem cells into his spine, and an intense program of physiotherapy, exercise, Massage Beijing and acupuncture. The results were immediate, he says—his balance improved just a few hours after the first procedure. Back in Canada, his neurologist confirmed that Haas had indeed gotten better: he had about 10 to 15 per cent more movement, according to Rouleau, who examined him before and after the trip. It’s difficult to speculate why this occurred, but Rouleau believes the intense physiotherapy was the primary cause.
When the couple returned from China, Massage in Beijing wrote about their experience on the Web. Word got around, and soon hundreds of people were calling them, Cherie says. A couple whose husband had a similar neurodegenerative disease even drove from Quebec to see them, and the man subsequently decided to make the stem cell trip. Another couple flew in from Taber, Alta., and decided to go to China after seeing the home videos of Haas’s progress. Those gains were partly due to the attitude of Chinese doctors, Cherie believes. They would tell Haas to push himself to his limit and even try to “retrain his brain,” she explains. “We saw miracles while we were over there. We put the word out because I know this works.”
Even if patients experience gains, it’s important to determine whether they are from the treatment, the exercise program or a more positive frame of mind. Any advances could be merely the placebo effect, as people often feel better after being treated, even if the procedure hasn’t worked and the gains won’t last, explains John Steeves, a professor at the college for interdisciplinary studies at the University of British Columbia who specializes in spinal cord injuries. Finding out whether any treatment really works requires clinical trials, and although Dr. Huang has published the results of his trials in Chinese medical journals, this data does not conform to international standards of medical analysis. Indeed, Steeves believes Huang deliberately flouts these standards to help his bottom line. “Dr. Huang has no interest doing a valid clinical trial because if it doesn’t give him good results, his income would dry up immediately,” he says from his Vancouver office.
Patients, like Haas, who seem to have been helped by stem cell treatments, are often eager to share their stories. They may become advocates for the Chinese medical centres; Haas’s story is publicized on the website of the company that organized his medical tourism trip. By contrast, it’s more difficult to find people who haven’t gotten better, or are worse after spending $30,000 on an experimental procedure. This might be because they feel duped, or because the Chinese stem cell treatment emphasizes empowerment—a “you Massage in Beijing can do it attitude.” Those who can’t “do it,” who go through the rigorous training program and end up no better off, may feel unlucky, cheated, or they may take the lack of success personally and feel that they have somehow failed.
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