Bear bile has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, with the first reference appearing in an eighth century medical text prescribing bear bile for maladies like ...

Bear bile is an ingredient in traditional Asian medicine that's used to treat everything from hangovers to cancer, and most recently COVID-19. Its key component, ursodeoxycholic acid, has been ...

CHINATOWN, NY — Bear bile worth thousands of dollars and thought by some to be a cure for the coronavirus was seized in at least eight Chinatown traditional medicine stores, the New York State ...

An study led by the Australian animal welfare group Free The Bears found that bear bile farms across Vietnam are starving and killing their bears because keeping them alive has become too costly.

A bear in Vietnam’s northeastern Haiphong region had been kept captive for years, her bile harvested in painful and invasive ways – and the farmer was finally giving her up. The team found a ...

Languages: English, Spanish Animal welfare activists in Vietnam have rescued a female Asiatic black bear that was being kept in a small cage and had previously been abused for "painful" bile ...

World Animal Protection rescued the Asiatic black bear from an illegal bile farm in Vietnam, where he was found "in a narrow, steel cage," which made it hard for him to move around freely Nicholas ...