Party with care

The Spring Festival is a season of fun for all Chinese, but too much eating and drinking can pose many risks, medical experts tell Liu Zhihua.

With the Spring Festival - the most important celebration of the year for the Chinese - arriving in about one week, people are getting excited about the coming seven-day holiday. Some will celebrate even longer, as the festival traditionally lasts throughout the first half of the first lunar month.

Yet while most people will leave their regular work for family time and big feasts, medical professionals, especially those in emergency departments, will get increasingly busy.