English news updates from Shanghai hospitals, prepared for international patients.
Shanghai is home to as many as 94,000 people with hearing and speech impairments, yet only 20 certified professional sign language interpreters are working across the city. The Baoshan Branch of Renji Hospital has taken the initiative to break through this barrier by building an accessible medical communication model. Medical…
Read the full report →Results of the Second National Healthcare Industry Youth Innovation Competition, jointly organized by the National Health Commission and the Communist Youth League Central Committee, have been announced. The project "Innovative Nursing Series for Maintaining Patency of the Hemodialysis Lifeline," from the hemodialysis unit of Renji Hospital's Department of Nephrology, won…
Read the full report →The 7th Academic Congress of the International Living Donor Liver Transplantation Society and the 7th Oriental Organ Transplantation Congress were held in Shanghai in 2025, marking the first time that the Chinese mainland secured the right to host a high-level international organ transplantation congress. Xia Qiang, academician of the Chinese…
Read the full report →The 51st International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva concluded in Geneva, Switzerland, drawing more than 1,000 invention projects from 35 countries and regions. Fudan University presented nine works and won four gold medals, among which the "Novel Nuclear Medicine Probe for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer" from the…
Read the full report →Zhang Jian, chief physician of the Phase I ward at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, led 28 centers nationwide in completing DESCEND, a multicenter, randomized, open-label phase III non-inferiority trial, whose results were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO, impact factor 44.7). The study enrolled 644 adult patients…
Read the full report →Recently, a team led by Professor Wu Xiaohua at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center successfully treated a late-stage ovarian cancer patient from Pakistan using its "Chinese approach" to ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment. The 60-year-old patient, Ms. Meng, was diagnosed one year ago with a tumor exceeding 10 centimeters that…
Read the full report →On July 19, the Party branches of the Department of Gastric Surgery I, the Department of Pancreatic Surgery and the Department of Breast Surgery at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center held the public welfare program "White Coats Devoted to the Party, Benevolence Along the Way" at the Sunshine Garden sub-center…
Read the full report →On July 8, 2026, the 2025 National Science and Technology Awards were announced. The project "Innovation and Dissemination of Organ Preservation and Functional Remodeling Technologies for Malignant Tumors of the Female Reproductive System," in which Professor Wu Xiaohua of the Department of Gynecology at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center participated…
Read the full report →After five years of work, a team led by Professor Yu Xianjun, President of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, and Dr. Shi Si, Deputy Director of the Pancreatic Tumor Center, has broken through the limitations of conventional bulk tissue sequencing. By integrating high-precision single-nucleus sequencing data from 152 pancreatic cancer…
Read the full report →The Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) held a commendation meeting in Hangzhou on April 11, 2026, granting the Department of Medical Oncology at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center the title of National Outstanding Cancer Patient Nutrition Guidance Center. Years of sustained effort, a solid clinical foundation and a comprehensive…
Read the full report →In the early hours of February 6, 2026 (Beijing time), a team led by Professor Shao Zhimin and Professor Jiang Yizhou of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, together with Professor Ni Jinfei's team at Fudan University's Institute for Translational Brain Research, published a study online in Cell. The research reveals…
Read the full report →On August 28, the finals of the First National Digital Health Competition concluded in Beijing. "My Eye Space - AI Early Screening and Long-Term Follow-Up System for Pediatric Eye Diseases," submitted by Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital together with Shanghai Children's Medical Center, the Hospital Development Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong…
Read the full report →On July 24, the eastern campus of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital opened a dedicated green channel for charitable surgery, where a team led by Cai Ming, chief physician of the Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, performed free sequential cleft lip and palate repair surgeries for five children from Tibet.…
Read the full report →At noon on July 15, a remote consultation spanning Shanghai and Xinjiang was launched. Wang Xudong, President of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, and Zhang Jun, a member of Shanghai's 12th batch of Xinjiang aid cadres, Vice President of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and President of Kashgar Prefecture Second People's Hospital,…
Read the full report →At 5 p.m. on June 11, a patient surnamed Zhang suffered a mechanical traction accident that completely avulsed his right ear. By the time he arrived at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, the ear had been detached for 20 hours, far exceeding the conventional 6- to 8-hour golden window for replantation,…
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