Healthcare « Week In China - Part 5

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Tu Youyou’s Nobel win breeds hope for domestic artemisinin suppliers
Oct 30, 2015 (WiC 301)

In the weeks since Tu Youyou was awarded a Nobel Prize for her contributions towards fighting malaria (see WiC 299), the role that Chinese companies play in the pharmaceutical market has received renewed interest. The vital chemical Tu and her ...

Chinese medicine regaining traction in domestic healthcare market
Oct 9, 2015 (WiC 299)

In 1969, the Vietnam War was raging. In the dense jungles, where the Communist North Vietnamese troops waged a guerrilla war, malaria was a greater threat than any other enemy. To help alleviate this pestilence for his Vietnamese comrades, Mao ...

Growing market for 3D technology in China, but local producers lag behind
Jul 24, 2015 (WiC 291)

Xiao Cheng and Amina Khan are two of the modern wonders of medicine, thanks to advances in 3D printing. Xiao is a six year-old boy from Henan province who lost his hand in a traffic accident two years ago. His family could not afford the ...

Local mosquitoes seem immune to foreign sprays
Jul 24, 2015 (WiC 291)

Some say that people with a particular blood type attract more mosquitoes and thus get bitten more. Apparently those with Type O blood are a favourite dining option for the bloodsucking pest. But Joe Conlon, a technical adviser to the American ...

Zhengzhou hospital has 7,000 beds and does 196,000 ops annually
Jul 3, 2015 (WiC 288)

During the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty a physician by the name of Hua Tuo made an extraordinary discovery. He found that a mixture containing alcohol (a lot of it) and stramonium (derived from the jimson weed plant) placed his patients ...

New study renews Chinese debate on antibiotics
Jun 26, 2015 (WiC 287)

China’s rivers and lakes are notoriously polluted – heavy metals, industrial effluent and fertilisers all swirl within their waters. But a new study released last week suggests they are also carrying huge amounts of active antibiotics. The ...

Are the authorities now going after foreign medical equipment makers?
May 15, 2015 (WiC 281)

In March 2013 an anonymous insider alleged that GlaxoSmithKline’s research head in China had fabricated data published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine. GSK withdrew the paper and two researchers were sacked. As it turned out, the ...

Foreign pharmaceutical firms are finding it tough going in China
Feb 27, 2015 (WiC 272)

R&D in Chinese medicine has taken some twists and turns throughout the country’s history, not least in the middle of the ninth century. That’s when alchemists experimenting with an elixir for eternal life discovered that a mixture of ...

Guangzhou on Ebola alert
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

In late 2002 Hong Kong media began to report on panic buying of rice vinegar in Guangdong, where a pneumonia-like illness had been spreading. Public anxiety soon spilled over the border, and Hongkongers started stocking up on the vinegar too ...

Can a Chinese pharma firm develop a cure for Ebola?
Oct 17, 2014 (WiC 256)

The Chinese call it Sobola. But the deadly disease is better known outside China as Ebola, after one of the earliest diagnosed cases which occurred in an area near Africa’s Ebola River in 1976. According to the World Health Organisation, as ...

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