FDA issues warning letter to China API plant

Singapore: The Food and Drug Administration has recently issued a warning letter to China-based Novacyl Wuxi Pharmaceuti...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
2014's Top 20 Companies: RANK 1

  Sinopharm is jointly owned by China National Pharmaceutical Group and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical. Directly contro...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Gilead allows sublicense of HIV drug to generic firms

Singapore: HIV drug developer, Gilead Sciences has partnered with Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to expand access to Gilead...

July 25, 2014 | Friday | News
UK SFO launches formal probe against GSK

Singapore: Days after China concluded its probe against British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and charged certain executive...

May 28, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Half a million people in China are battling HIV

Singapore: Ahead of the World AIDS Day, Mr Wang Guoqiang, vice director of the National Health and Family Planning Commi...

December 1, 2014 | Monday | News
Pfizer to stop selling Prevnar in China

Singapore: US-based drugmaker Pfizer recently announced plans to stop selling Prevnar vaccine in China. The vaccine is a...

April 6, 2015 | Monday | News
WuXi Pharma launches mobile app for research services

Singapore: China's research contract service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has launched WuXi V-Lab, a mobile app available ...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China to offer personalized chemotherapy

Singapore: China-based Fosun diagnostics and Saladax Biomedical announced the launch of MyCare assay tests for chemother...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Liposome to begin phase-II trials for its cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based drugmaker, Liposome announced that it had received approval from the Chinese government to begin...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Study: Bacteria is root cause of obesity, diabetes

Singapore: A new research conducted by researchers at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China, revealed that cer...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | News
China's Wuzhou to buy 10 percent stake in Isreali Oramed

Singapore: According to reports, China's Guangxi Wuzhou Zhongheng Group recently announced plans to purchase a 10 percen...

July 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Public Chinese trial for GSK-tied investigators

Singapore: The Chinese government has now officially announced that the trial of the two private investigators tied to G...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
China BIO convention to be held on Oct 24-25

Singapore: The 2nd annual BIO Convention in China, a partnering and investor conference that will bring together execut...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China's Tigermed acquires bioanalysis firm

Singapore: China based Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting has acquired a majority of Frontage Laboratories, a company providin...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
China reports 11 new H7N9 cases

Singapore: After six new human cases of Avian Influenza H7N9 bird flu were reported from China last week, this week too ...

February 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia bioscience grows 11 percent, crosses $150 bn

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording ...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Beijing announces Sinovac as the supplier of flu vaccine

Singapore: Beijing government recently announced China's Sinovac Biotech as the supplier of the seasonal influenza vacci...

September 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK China scandal: Chairman urged to resign

Singapore: Even though the chairman of British drug major GlaxoSmithKline had announced that he would be resigning in 20...

September 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News