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News on Healthcare in China

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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 ...

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 ...

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