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New rules on blood donations hit hospitals and surgeons
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

In early February, Pu Buzhen was due to start chemotherapy for a rare bone marrow disease known as aplastic anaemia. The 34 year-old had waited a year for treatment. Her family had sold cars and property to pay for it. But 10 minutes into the ...

To grow in China’s health supplement market Citic buys into foreign brand
Mar 9, 2018 (WiC 400)

Whether ejiao, or donkey-hide gelatin, has real health benefits became a hotly discussed topic recently. The debate was sparked by a weibo post penned by the National Health and Family Planning Commission’s hotline service, which ...

Ping An’s healthcare IPO points to growth of ‘Big Health’ theme and AI
Feb 9, 2018 (WiC 397)

Long before the term ‘unicorn’ was popularised in the investment world, Jim Clark was founding billion-dollar companies. In fact, Clark was the first man to create three multi-billion dollar tech firms. His incredible story is told by Michael ...

Chinese scientists break new ground cloning monkeys – stirring US fears
Feb 2, 2018 (WiC 396)

In the 16th century novel Journey to the West the Monkey King creates an army of clones by pulling hairs from his tail and scattering them on the battlefield. Today in China, scientists have achieved something similar – creating two ...

A Tencent-backed Hong Kong eye clinic becomes city’s hottest IPO for years
Jan 12, 2018 (WiC 393)

Thanks to the rapidly increasing demands of mainland Chinese patients, these have been heady times for Hong Kong’s private healthcare sector. But the good times have not blessed all: a number of the city’s highflying doctors have faced ...

BGI founder’s vaccine comment spooks outcry
Jan 12, 2018 (WiC 393)

Prevention, detection, treatment. Over the centuries that has become the gold standard for controlling disease. But last month Wang Jian, the head of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), ruffled feathers when he appeared to have suggested a ...

BGI Genomics in investor focus after huge run-up in share price
Nov 24, 2017 (WiC 389)

“If you are really stupid, I’d call that a disease.” So said the biologist James Watson, during a British television series in 2003. Watson was one of the Cambridge University team of scientists that won the Nobel Prize after they famously ...

China declares war on cancer
Nov 3, 2017 (WiC 386)

In Mao’s China it was a familiar sight for workers to begin their day with communal exercises. During the Cultural Revolution, students shouted slogans such as “Great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: develop sports! Enhance people’s health! ...

China counts on ‘sharing economy’ to aid healthcare reform
Sep 29, 2017 (WiC 382)

‘Medical malls’ were dreamed up in the United States in the 1980s to bring healthcare services closer to residential areas. The concept largely idled over the following decades until struggling property firms began looking for tenants for ...

Moutai builds a hospital and a university in Guizhou
Sep 1, 2017 (WiC 378)

Not many people have noticed but President Xi Jinping was elected as one of Guizhou’s delegates to the National People’s Congress in April. Having previously represented Shanghai in the lawmaking body, Xi’s switch was “huge ...

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