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News on Healthcare in China

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Lunar new year lockdown

Wuhan quarantined in a bid to slow the spread of a deadly virus
Jan 24, 2020 (WiC 480)

Epidemics are a feature of Chinese history. Because of the symbolic threat they posed to an emperor’s ‘heavenly mandate’, they always had a political dimension as well. For instance, in 1910 when the Qing Dynasty was already on the verge of ...

Shanghai biotech company to raise over $100 million on Nasdaq
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

“The first criterion for us to invest in a company is that it does not make much money,” Zhang Lei, founder of Hillhouse Capital, told a conference in Heilongjiang province last year. Lei was highlighting “room to grow” as the most ...

Outbreak claims first two deaths
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

Last week WiC wrote about an unidentified pneumonia that sickened 59 people in the central city of Wuhan. Since publication news has emerged that two men have died from the illness (the most recent a 69 year-old man on January 15). Xinhua ...

Local injection

China approves its first homegrown HPV vaccines
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

Researchers at Oxford University are currently developing a therapy that could clear up persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections – which are known to be responsible for almost all cervical cancers. While existing vaccines work as a ...

Disease at city market sparks fears of another epidemic
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

Pneumonia of unknown etiology, or PUE for short, is a worrying diagnosis. It means the sufferer has all the worst symptoms of flu (lung lesions, a high fever and difficulty breathing) but that underlying virus cannot be identified – in many ...

Doctors and death

Another killing in an increasingly risky profession
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

By all accounts Dr Yang Wen was a kind and diligent physician. For 22 years she worked in the emergency department of Beijing’s Civil Aviation Hospital, often on night shifts, despite only being four years away from retirement. But shortly ...

Wuhan hospital grabs headlines over egg-freeze
Nov 22, 2019 (WiC 475)

According to a recent survey, the percentage of women heading up companies in China was 12% (not very high, but still better than the Fortune 500, which reported 4.8% female leadership last year). Sun Jie from travel giant Trip.com Group is ...

Is seaweed the answer?

Shanghai drugs firm claims a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s treatment
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Seaweed has been a long-term favourite as an ingredient in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The marine algae is trusted to treat skin disorders, reduce swelling, provide relief from bronchitis and inhibit the growth of some types of cancerous ...

German eye clinic raises its China profile via IPO
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

Jorn Jorgensen is an eye surgeon and a skilled marketeer. To celebrate the opening of his latest clinic in Beijing last month, he operated on his son Jannik, implanting ICL lenses, or what he called “the gift of visual freedom” in a procedure ...

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 ...

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