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Stem cells and discrimination suits

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 2:19 PM

Two medical stories:

Nokia and Hepatitis B
The Financial Times reports: Nokia China hit with discrimination suit
Excerpt:

A Chinese job applicant ­on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Nokia alleging that a local unit of the Finnish telecommunications equipment company refused to employ him because he is a carrier of the Hepatitis B virus...

...Chinese companies routinely refuse to employ people who carry the Hepatitis B virus, even though it is mainly transmitted at birth, through sexual contact or by contaminated needles.

Stem cell blogs
Stem cell medical treatments are not considered controversial in China; as a result the treatments available are far ahead of what's on offer in other countries. Virtual China has a roundup of stem cell treatment blogs and posts, including the following:
• Shenzhen Fieldnotes - stem cell therapy in Nanshan (click here if you're in China - the blog is on the blocked Livejournal)
• China Stem Cell News, including medical history summaries of foreign patients who came to China for treatment

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Quite a scandal about Nokia. I saw this a while back accusing Microsoft of having the same policy. I went up down and through MS' China page but wasn't able to find the clause this blogger mentions. I did find something on a bbs later, but it seemed to have been a misreading of the MS China's HR page.
http://www.bullog.cn/blogs/gojin/archives/24767.aspx

Posted by: feng37 | March 15, 2007 2:10 PM
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