English news updates from Shanghai hospitals, prepared for international patients.
The team of Lei Ming and Zhang Yanjie from the Department of Oncology at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and the Shanghai Institute of Precision Medicine has achieved two consecutive original results. On March 30, 2026, the team published a study in Nature Communications, using cryo-electron microscopy to resolve for the…
Read the full report →At the 14th Shanghai Medical Workers' Science and Technology Innovation "Starlight Plan" competition organized by the Shanghai Medical Workers' Union, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital won one first prize, two second prizes, two third prizes and two finalist awards, with two staff members also named Innovation Stars. Wang Yueping of the…
Read the full report →Professor Lin Xiaoxi and his team at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital have worked in the field of hemangioma and vascular malformation for three decades. On January 29, 2026, the team's breakthrough on the mechanism of facial infiltrating lipomatosis (FIL) was published online…
Read the full report →From December 18 to 21, the 19th Annual Meeting of the Ophthalmologists Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association was held in Beijing. Professor Fan Xianqun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dean of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and…
Read the full report →The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission has released the list of approved projects for its 2026 municipal health science communication program. Shanghai Children's Medical Center, which also serves as the National Center for Children's Health, had four projects approved at once, a clean sweep of the program's categories. The flagship "Leadership…
Read the full report →The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Shanghai Children's Medical Center has completed the hospital's first modified small-incision axillary repair of tetralogy of Fallot in an infant of just 5 months, setting a national record for minimally invasive treatment of complex congenital heart disease at such a young age. The conventional…
Read the full report →A 9-year-old boy named Xiaoyu had suffered involuntary urine leakage five to ten times a day since the age of 2. He was diagnosed with a neurogenic bladder with a capacity of only 50 ml, together with left kidney atrophy and bilateral vesicoureteral reflux. A team led by Sun Jie,…
Read the full report →A team led by Deng Zhaohui, director of the gastroenterology department at Shanghai Children's Medical Center, performed endoscopic ultrasound-guided transduodenal pancreatic duct drainage (EUS-PDD) on a 2-year-old child weighing 12 kilograms who had pancreatic duct dilation. It is the youngest and lightest pediatric case of this procedure in publicly reported…
Read the full report →The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Shanghai Children's Medical Center has successfully used a domestically made single-port robot to remove a giant mediastinal tumor in a 12-year-old patient — the first pediatric thoracic surgery in China performed with a single-port snake-arm robot. The child had a 7 x 6 x…
Read the full report →Shanghai Children's Medical Center has achieved important results in two frontier fields. First, working with Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, it proposed a novel "nano interception" strategy. The team of He Xiaomin, chief physician of cardiothoracic surgery, and the team of researcher Cai Xiaojun of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital found that…
Read the full report →The Fourth Academic Annual Conference of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Nursing Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine was held in Hefei from April 16 to 18. The nursing department of Shanghai Children's Medical Center led 32 senior nurses from its main campus, Guizhou Hospital and Fujian Hospital to the…
Read the full report →The results of the Second "Chuang Qingchun" National Health Sector Youth Innovation Competition have been announced, and a youth team from Shanghai Children's Medical Center won the gold award. The winning project, an assessment technology based on a pediatric version of the patient-reported common terminology criteria for adverse events, was…
Read the full report →The end-stage heart failure team at Shanghai Children's Medical Center has successfully performed an ABO-incompatible heart transplant on an 11-month-old infant weighing just 8 kilograms with restrictive cardiomyopathy, breaking the blood-type matching constraint of conventional organ transplantation. The child, known by the pseudonym Xixi, developed sudden generalized edema and was…
Read the full report →Stanford University in the United States and the authoritative academic publisher Elsevier have jointly released the 2026 edition of the World's Top 2% Scientists list, which captures and measures researchers' academic influence within 2025. Yu Zhuo, a director at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Shuguang Hospital, was included…
Read the full report →As part of the events marking the 70th anniversary of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the 120th anniversary of Shuguang Hospital, the hospital held a conference on the construction and high-quality development of research-oriented TCM hospitals in Shanghai, where the Consensus on Building Research-Oriented TCM Hospitals was released.…
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