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News on Healthcare in China

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Why hyaluronic acid is big business in China
Oct 18, 2019 (WiC 470)

Like a lot of young women, 19 year-old Xiaochen (a pseudonym) wanted a new look before heading back to college. After seeing an ad from a beauty clinic, the Chongqing-native opted for a filler injection. The lure: a price of just Rmb980 (about ...

Family planning

End of the One-Child Policy stirs IVF demand
Sep 27, 2019 (WiC 468)

Search for the name “Wei Zexi” on Baidu and most of the results are negative headlines about the search engine itself. This became the case after Wei Zexi, 21 year-old college student from Shaanxi, died in 2016 from a rare form of cancer ...

Mindray vies with Wens as ChiNext’s top dog
Jul 12, 2019 (WiC 459)

It ended a decade-long affair with the US capital markets when it delisted from New York in 2016 and opted to return to China and relist there last year instead. Now Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, a medical equipment maker, is vying ...

The baby bounce

Jinxin Fertility IPOs in Hong Kong, capitalising on bullish outlook for IVF
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

China’s infertility rate was said to have risen from no more than 3% two decades ago to about 15% in 2016, according to a joint study by China’s health ministry and the China Population Association (about 10% of American women of ...

The Suns, rising

Hansoh’s IPO boosts top pharma pairing
Jun 21, 2019 (WiC 457)

Gleevec, a drug for treating leukemia, wasn’t well known until the hit movie Dying to Survive featured it last year. The social satire, which drew attention to the issue of unaffordable medicines in China, also raised awareness of the ...

Scandals spotlight HPV vaccine shortage
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

It was in Wenzhou that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine – arguably the most reliable shield against cervical cancer – was first made available in China. The Zhejiang city was picked because the vaccine’s manufacturer Merck wanted to ...

The varsity blues

Chinese pharma tycoon spends $6.5 million to get daughter into top college
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

The achievements of Mencius, the second most revered of China’s sages after Confucius, are often traced back to his solicitous mother. Legend has it that widow Zhang moved house three times – from close to a cemetery to a marketplace and ...

The mighty weed

Meet the PLA-linked company that’s soared on China’s cannabis craze
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

Whoopi Goldberg has a product line of body balm that’s derived from it. Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness platform Goop has also added its stamp of approval having partnered since last June with MedMen, a California-based marijuana dispensary chain. ...

Regulators take aim at the chewing of areca
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

Taiwanese farmers used to call the betel nut ‘green gold’. In fact, in the mid-1990s as much as a fifth of the island’s arable land was used for growing areca. Trips around Taiwan were brightened by so-called Betelnut Beauties – young ...

Not so fresh-faced

Concerns about cosmetic craze among teens
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

About half of the East Asian population is said to have ‘double eyelids’, or a naturally occurring crease of the skin over the eyes. So when the Beijing News visited a high school in Chengdu recently it was surprised to find that almost all ...

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