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08/10/2010 |
China Kanghui Posts Profit, Outlines IPO Spending Plans
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China Kanghui Holdings reported growing revenue and profit in the second quarter, as the medical-device maker outlined its plans to spend the proceeds of ...... |
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08/06/2010 |
Charles River Drops $1.6 Billion WuXi PharmaTech Bid
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Charles River Laboratories International Inc. withdrew a $1.6 billion bid for WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc., citing investor opposition to what would have been the larg...... |
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08/05/2010 |
China Kanghui's IPO Seen Raising More Than First Estimated
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Medical-device maker China Kanghui Holdings on Wednesday released estimated terms for its planned initial public offering in the U.S., which is expect...... |
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08/04/2010 |
Merck In Talks For China Partnership
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Merck & Co. said Tuesday it was in talks with China's Sinopharm Group Co. for a venture to market vaccines and potentially Merck drugs, which would represent Merck's first signi...... |
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07/09/2010 |
Blackstone Taking Stake in China Animal
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Investors led by Blackstone are taking a "substantial" stake in China Animal Healthcare, a Singapore-listed maker of drugs for livestock that is hopi...... |
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06/17/2010 |
China Med Tech Q4 Profit Drops on Falling Sales
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Medical device maker China Medical Technologies Inc. said Friday its fiscal-fourth quarter profit fell 82 percent as the company cut prices, reported AP. |
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06/13/2010 |
China Nepstar CEO Resigns; COO Becomes Acting CEO
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China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd., which operates retail drugstores in China, said Wednesday that Ian Wade has resigned as the company's CEO, effective immediately, reported Thursday's AP. |
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06/10/2010 |
Pfizer Sells China Swine Vaccine Unit to Harbin Pharma
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Pfizer Inc, the world's biggest drugmaker, is selling its swine vaccine business in China to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group for $50 million, a source wit...... |
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05/28/2010 |
China Nepstar's 1Q Profit Falls on Expansion Costs
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China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd., the largest drugstore operator in China, said Tuesday its profit dropped 92 percent in the first quarter as it continued to expand rapidly, reported AP. |
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05/07/2010 |
Germany's Bayer Sees Sharp Growth In China Medical Mkt
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German drug and chemical maker Bayer AG expects China's medical market to grow nearly 10-fold over the next decade as the country aims to overhaul its m...... |
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05/06/2010 |
Charles River Labs To Buy WuXi PharmaTec
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Medical research equipment and services company Charles River Laboratories International Inc. plans to buy WuXi PharmaTech, a Chinese pharmaceutical ou...... |
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04/23/2010 |
Dental Centres In S扨ore And China Partner To Form Dental Network
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Two private dental centres, T32 from Singapore and Arrail Dental Group from China, are collaborating to form a dental network, reported Friday’s Channel News Asia. |
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03/31/2010 |
Sinopharm H2 Net Lags Forecast, Eyes Expansion
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Sinopharm Group posted a forecast-lagging 43 percent rise in second-half earnings, as China's largest drug distributor expanded its sales network and broadened its production range to tap the...... |
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03/24/2010 |
China To Be 3rd Largest Pharma Market In 2011
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Sales of prescription drugs in emerging markets will grow rapidly over the next few years, pharmaceutical market research firm IMS Health says, with China becoming the world'...... |
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03/11/2010 |
Mindray Medical Reports Stellar 2009 On Strength Of China抯 Medical Device Market
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Mindray Medical, the medical device company headquartered in Shenzhen, issued a very positive financial report for 2009, wrote Seeking Alpha. |
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02/10/2010 |
Pfizer Sees Strong Growth In China
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Pfizer Inc, the world's biggest drugmaker, said it expects its China business to grow by at least 25 percent this year and is forging partnerships to increase its share...... |
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12/30/2009 |
China Imposes Anti-dumping Measures On EU Fasteners
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Wednesday that it was to impose temporary anti-dumping measures against imports of EU carbon steel fasteners, reported Xinhua. |
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11/30/2009 |
China Reports Eight Cases Of Mutated Swine Flu
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China has discovered eight people with mutated versions of swine flu but drugs are still effective against the new strains, said a senior health official, reported AFP. |
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11/23/2009 |
PPD To Acquire BioDuro In China Expansion
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PPD, Inc. today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire BioDuro LLC, a drug discovery outsourcing company that provides a broad range of integrated ser...... |
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10/29/2009 |
Mitsubishi To Tap China Drug Wholesale Market
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Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp and drug wholesaler Medipal Holdings Corp aim to tap China's rapidly growing drug market by teaming up with Sino...... |
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09/09/2009 |
Sinovac Gets Production Approval For One-Dose A/H1N1 Vaccine
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China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved the mass production of Sinovac’s one-dose A/H1N1 flu vaccine, called Panf...... |
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08/28/2009 |
China Says New Drug Policy Stirs Competition, M & As
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China's Health Ministry said on Thursday that a new policy on essential drugs would create competition among manufacturers and lead to more mergers and acquisitions i...... |
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08/20/2009 |
Fosun Pharmaceutical Hikes Stake In Tongjitang
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Shanghai-listed Fosun Pharmaceutical Group said Thursday that it had purchased 1.51 million American Depository Shares (ADS) of US-listed Tongjitang in the secondary market, reported China Daily. |
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08/20/2009 |
Program Gives Shenzhen Citizen Easy Access To Family Doctors
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About half of the households in Shenzhen will enjoy easy access to family doctors by 2015 after the full implementation of a new healthcare system, reported China Daily. |
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08/20/2009 |
Patients In Guangdong To Pay New Service Fee
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Patients in public hospitals in Guangdong province will be charged a medical service fee beginning late this year, a move to reduce the hospitals' dependency ...... |
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08/11/2009 |
Sinopharm Plans To Raise 7b Yuan In Hong Kong IPO
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Sinopharm Holdings, majority owned by state-run China National Pharmaceutical Group, has been granted approval by Chinese officials to list in Hong Kong, in an...... |
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08/10/2009 |
China抯 Tong Ren Tang Opens TCM Store In Brunei
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Tong Ren Tang, a firm whose traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products are well known in China, opened its first store in Brunei on Aug 4, in another mov...... |
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08/05/2009 |
China Issues Health Care Reform Plan Of 2009
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China's State Council Thursday issued a medical reform plan of 2009, as its first year's move of the three-year health care reform, reported Xinhua news. |
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08/03/2009 |
China Releases Health Care Reform Plan For 2009
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China's State Council issued the country’s health care reform plan of 2009, as its first year's move in carrying out its 850 billion yuan ($124 billion), three-year program to imp...... |
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07/30/2009 |
Clinical Tests Begin For China抯 A(H1N1) Flu Vaccines
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Clinical tests on China’s first A(H1N1) influenza vaccines began Wednesday, July22, in order to determine their dosage and the immunity procedures...... |
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06/26/2009 |
China Begins Tests Of A/H1N1 Flu Vaccines
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Laboratory tests on China’s domestically-developed A(H1N1) flu vaccine started on Monday (Jun 22). The vaccines are...... |
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05/06/2009 |
China Announces It Has Fast Swine Flu Test
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China, the world's most populous nation reveals the development of an efficient means to diagnose instantly the presence of H1N1 flu, commonly called swine flu, acco...... |
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04/21/2009 |
China Aims For An Average Life Expectancy At 73 By 2010
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China aims for an average life expectancy for its citizens reaching 73 years by 2010, according to the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010)...... |
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04/21/2009 |
TCM Has Prominent Role In Essential Medicine Catalogue
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Traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) will be a prominent part of the new essential medicines catalogue will be traditional Chinese medicin...... |
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04/13/2009 |
China Launches Three-Year Health Care Reform Plan
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China unveiled its initial three-year (2009 to 2011), 850 billion yuan (124 billion U.S. dollars) health care reform plan which it said would lay a solid foundation f...... |
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03/27/2009 |
Bayer Plans Cooperation With Bioton In China抯 Insulin Market
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Germany's Bayer is looking at the China-based production facilities of Poland’s insulin maker Bioton as it is interested in a joint-venture between the two...... |
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03/25/2009 |
Pfizer, PlaNet Finance Team Up To Study China抯 Healthcare Needs
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Pfizer Inc, the world's largest drug maker and PlaNet Finance, the Paris-based microfinance organization announced in Paris that they will team up to conduct an in-...... |
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03/16/2009 |
Free Cervical Cancer Screening For Low-Income Chinese Women
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Qiagen, in cooperation with the China Cancer Foundation (CCF), offered free screening of human papillomavirus (HPV), a root cause of cervical cancer, for low-income women at 31 Chin...... |
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03/12/2009 |
Overseas Patients Seek Stem Cell Treatment In China
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A two-year-old British girl Dakota Clarke, who was born blind, can see people, objects, colours and lights around her for the first time after und...... |
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03/10/2009 |
China Advises Its Smoking Doctors To Kick The Habit
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China is offering its male doctors, more than half (56.8 per cent ) of whom smoke, an urgent and much needed medical advice - quit the habit and set an example to the hundreds of mi...... |
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03/09/2009 |
China Faces Increasing Burden From Chronic Diseases
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China is seeing a growing burden on its health care industry due to the rising number of chronic diseases such as heart disease, hype...... |
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03/03/2009 |
China抯 Health Chief Issues Warning On Illegal Food Additives
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Chinese health chiefs pledged that harsh punishment await those caught in the production, sale and use of illegal additives in food at a video conference briefing on...... |
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02/24/2009 |
China's Basic Medical Insurance Covers 1 Bln People
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China’s State Council, or Cabinet, promised to increase the basic medical insurance coverage of rural and urban population to at least 90 percent by 2011. |
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02/23/2009 |
AIDS: China's Top Fatal Infectious Disease
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Death from AIDS reached 6,897 from January to September in 2008, making it the top killer among infectious diseases in China for 2008, accord...... |
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02/02/2009 |
China Announces $124b Healthcare Reform Plan
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China’s announcement that it intends to spend 850 billion yuan ( $123 billion) by 2011 for the country’s universal health care has brought hope to ...... |
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01/27/2009 |
China Provides Free Pre-pregnancy Health Checks
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China's National Population and Family Planning Commission announced the availability of free pre-pregnancy health screenings to women who plan to become pregnant in order to prevent birth defects. |
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12/25/2008 |
More Chinese Need To Exercise Regularly-Survey
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The survey, released by China's State General Administration of Sport, said about 340 million people exercised regularly last year, with 250 million of them spendi...... |
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12/12/2008 |
China Blacklists 74 Websites Selling Fake, Addictive Medicine
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China's State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM) on Tuesday, December 9, blacklisted 74 websites for selling fake Chinese herbal medicine. The identification...... |
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12/09/2008 |
Beijing Offering Free Spit Test As Alternative AIDS/HIV Test
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Beijing is offering, for free, an alternative to the traditional blood test for AIDS/HIV this early December – the spit test. The spit test, ...... |
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12/02/2008 |
Reproductive Health Care Spending Implemented Sooner To Support Stimulus Plan
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China has allocated another 1 billion yuan (147 million U.S. dollars) fr the fourth quarter, which ends in about six weeks, to upgrade rural reproductive health care programs. |
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There are 173 million people in China estimated to be suffering from mental disorders, roughly one in every seven people, according to a research report put together by the government-funded Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center (BSRPC) in 2010.
