China healthcare IT market to reach $3.97 bn by 2020

Singapore: China healthcare IT market earned revenues of $1.24 billion in 2013 and is estimated to reach $3.97 billion b...

December 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Exit from China for foreign pharma executives?

Singapore: Ahead of the charges levelled out against British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline in China, other foreign executiv...

June 16, 2014 | Monday | News
Dishman might sell China plant to clear debts

Singapore: India's Ahmedabad based contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) company Dishman Pharmaceuticals ...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | News
What's the stem cell regulatory scenario like in APAC?

The pioneering work of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has open...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Quintiles officially opens regional HQ in China

Singapore: Quintiles has officially opened Greater China Regional Headquarters, further expanding its ability to help Ch...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Illumina join hands with Amoy Diagnostics

Singapore: Amoy Diagnostics (ADx) and Illumina has announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of pre...

October 1, 2015 | Thursday | News
Luye pharma to acquire Beijing Jialin Pharmaceuticals

Singapore: Hong Kong-based drug maker, Luye pharma group has announced the acquisition of the remaining 42.02 percent st...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac clocks $17.5 mn sales in Q2 2013

Singapore: China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech has clocked 86.4 percent increase in total sales valued at ...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Vectorite, Grandhope Biotech ink a deal

Singapore: Vectorite Biomedicals,a Taiwan based firm announced that it had signed a technology transfer agreement worth ...

July 1, 2014 | Tuesday | News
US firm to develop inhaled insulin products for Asia‎

Singapore: Dance Biopharm, US based privately-held biotechnology company focused on the development of inhaled insulin p...

October 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Tech drive demand for 3D medical imaging

Singapore: Global Industry Analysts (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on 3D medical imaging m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Stay wary of fake cancer drugs sold online: CFDA

Singapore: The Chinese Food and Drug Administration(CFDA) recently issued a warning to consumers against purchasing ille...

June 16, 2014 | Monday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Sinovac mumps vaccine facility gets SFDA-GMP

Singapore: Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech has received GMP certification from the China State Food and Drug Administratio...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China Biologic raises equity share to 76%

Singapore: China Biologic Products has acquired an additional 19.84 percent equity interest in Guizhou Taibang Biologica...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Cipla divests its stake from a Chinese firm

Singapore: Indian pharma major, Cipla recently announced that the company's wholly owned subsidiary Meditab holdings ent...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia gets $15 mn donation for better sanitation

Singapore: Last year, the Asian Development Bank created the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund to help provide...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Eli Lilly opens diabetes R&D center in China

Singapore: Eli Lilly officially opened the Lilly China Research and Development Center (LCRDC) on May 30, keeping with i...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
China approves Agilent's Microarray Scanner

Agilent Technologies has announced that the China Food and Drug Administration has approved its SureScan Dx microarray s...

February 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Simcere flu facility gets SFDA's GMP nod

Singapore: China SFDA has approved Simcere Pharmaceutical's GMP certification of the influenza vaccine production facili...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
How to get your drug registered in Asia Pacific?

The life science industry in Asia Pacific (APAC) countries presents a plethora of opportunities for businesses that are ...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Mindray clocks $334.5 mn revenue in Q2, 2014

Singapore: China-based medical device firm, Mindray Medical, has scaled net revenue of USD334.5 million in the second qu...

August 12, 2014 | Tuesday | Company results
Transcatheter embolization market up in APAC'

Singapore: Asia Pacific market for transcatheter embolization and occlusion (TEO) devices in countries including Austral...

August 12, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Bird flu resurfaces in China, 4 cases confirmed

Singapore: The H7N9 Avian Influenza virus that had killed 45 people and infected 138 others in May has now resurfaced in...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China SFDA approves first-ever test to screen HPV

Singapore: China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved QIAGEN's careHPV Test and instrument platform....

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Luqa Pharmaceuticals raises $15mn fund

Singapore: China's Luqa Pharmaceuticals has completed a $15 million round of fund raising, led by Morningside Ventures. ...

June 11, 2015 | Thursday | News
Now stem cells can repair damaged spinal cord!

Singapore: Chinese scientists and doctors have carried out a new ground breaking spinal cord surgery in China, thus rais...

January 20, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China intensifies pharma corruption battle

Singapore: For over 12 months now, China has been cracking down on big pharma giants operating in the country and has be...

May 28, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Jail time for GSK linked investigators: China

Singapore: On charges of trafficking personal data, China has sentenced Mr Peter Humphrey of ChinaWhys to two-and-a-half...

August 11, 2014 | Monday | News
GE to open technology and training centre in Turkey

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences plans to open a technology and training laboratory in Turkey by mid-2015 targetti...

November 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Have the Chinese created a new destructive flu virus?

As part of a new research, China's Harbin Veterinary Research Institute under the leadership of Dr Chen Hualan has creat...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Renowned scientist gets stem cell patent in China

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist working in the domain of human body regenerative restoration science, has been g...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Globalization, demography drive APAC healthcare industry

Singapore: The healthcare industry in Asia Pacific (APAC) is rapidly growing, fuelled by increased spending on health, l...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
BGI China, INEX develop blood test for Down syndrome

Singapore: INEX Innovations Exchange (INEX), a leading women's health diagnostics company based in Singapore, has partne...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Boston Scientific implantable heart defibrillator hits China

Singapore: Boston Scientific has launched and started implantation of  Cognis cardiac resynchronization therapy defibri...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Fosun Pharma listed in CCTV Financial 50 Index Sample Stock

Singapore: Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical has been listed in CCTV Financial 50 Index Sample Stock, an index created by Sh...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Military univ, Shanghai Pharma form alliance

Singapore: Shanghai Pharmaceuticals has entered into a strategic framework cooperation agreement with Secondary Military...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr Lubenow: QIAGEN HPV test is revolutionary

Diagnostics seem to be the buzz word in the today's healthcare industry. Previously, undergoing a diagnostic test was ve...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
China introduces new healthcare reforms

Singapore: In a bid to deepen healthcare reforms and improve health infrastructure in the country, the Chinese governmen...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
WuXi AppTec invests $120mn to build new biologics facility

Singapore: WuXi AppTec has started construction of an integrated biologics solution center at the company's headquarters...

January 11, 2016 | Monday | News
J&J to open innovation centers in US, UK and China

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson plans to establish four regional innovation centers in major life sciences communities ...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
More pharma giants might come under Chinese scanner

Singapore: An probe into the activities of Shanghai Linjiang International Travel Agency in China by the investigators l...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi launches medtech testing services in China

Singapore: China's WuXi PharmaTech's Laboratory Testing Division (LTD) has launched preclinical medical device testing s...

October 26, 2015 | Monday | News
India, China recreate Barefoot Doctors

Singapore: A team of Indian and Chinese doctors have jointly launched the fourth medical mission to provide free consult...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
New leadership for Xian Janssen in China

Singapore: Janssen's managing director for UK and Ireland, Mr Cesar Rodriguez has moved to take up a new role as the Pre...

December 6, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK faces initial resistance following directional shift

Singapore: Following a less than flattering financial performance in 2014, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is realigning its opera...

February 14, 2015 | Saturday | News
India, China to produce generic of Gilead's TAF

Singapore: Gilead have allowed generic manufacturers in India and China to produce generic versions of its HBV and HIV d...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
Asia faces an acute skills gap challenge

Shortage of skills and qualification among life science professionals to pursue risk laden activities is proving to be a...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Glass packaging expert Gerresheimer on acquisition spree

German firm Gerresheimer is a manufacturer of high-quality specialty products made of glass and plastic for the global p...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
A leap forward in H7N9 pathology: China

Singapore: It is a relief to the patients, suffering from H7N9, a virus that causes lethal respiratory failure and other...

May 20, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Maiden use of 3D-printed vertebra in spine surgery

Singapore: For the first time in medical history, surgeons in China have used a 3D-printed vertebra as an implant for or...

August 31, 2014 | Sunday | News
China intensifies laws on healthcare product advertising

Singapore: China's legislative body has begun a draft amendment of the Advertising Law, which proposes tougher regulatio...

April 25, 2015 | Saturday | News
Novotech expands its services into China

Singapore: Novotech, Australia's largest Clinical Research Organization, has expanded its Asia business by opening a new...

October 6, 2014 | Monday | News
APAC Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma treatment market to touch $1.7 bn'

Singapore: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) treatment market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries including India, Australia, Chin...

September 26, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
China's Hua Medicine bags $25 mn Series B funding

Singapore: Shanghai-based Hua Medicine announced the closing of a $25 million series B funding that will enable the comp...

January 10, 2015 | Saturday | News
Clinical Outsourcing Models: "Drive a Hybrid"

Singapore: When we think "hybrid" we think of taking the best components from often opposing approaches and forming a ne...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | Opinion
Concord hospital to provide gene therapy for cancer

Singapore: Concord Medical Services Holdings, a leading specialty hospital management solution provider and operator of...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
China's pharma potential cuts both ways

China continues to dominate the pharmaceutical market in Asia, both as a producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (...

June 3, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
CPC launches new line of AseptiQuik STC connectors

Singapore: Colder products, a leading player in connecting solutions, has announced the launch of its combination produc...

August 30, 2014 | Saturday | News
Israel firm gets US, China patent for neuro-peptide

Singapore: Israel-based D-Pharm has recieved new patent in the US and China, related to composition and use of THR-18, a...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Public trial of GSK-linked investigators begins

Singapore: British investigators and owners of ChinaWhys, Mr Peter Humphrey and his American wife Ms Yu Yingzeng stood f...

August 8, 2014 | Friday | News
Lifetech enters Western markets

Singapore: Lifetech's Ceraflex occluders would be the first Chinese medical devices brand to enter the western medical d...

December 1, 2014 | Monday | News
Sigma Aldrich all set for emerging markets

Sigma-Aldrich, a leading life sciences and high technology company headquartered in the US, recently opened new faciliti...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
Tianyin Pharma gets non-compliance note from NYSE

Singapore: Tianyin Pharmaceutical, China based biopharmaceutical company, has received non-compliance notice from New Yo...

October 23, 2014 | Thursday | Company results
3SBio to develop antibody for acute leukemia

Singapore: Chinese biotechnology firm, 3SBio, has signed an exclusive license with Korean firm, DiNonA  for the develop...

August 8, 2014 | Friday | News
Shanghai to host MEDTEC China on 25-26 Sept

Singapore: China is all set to host Medical Device Innovative Technology Forum and Regulation Summit (MEDTEC China) on ...

August 8, 2014 | Friday | News
Cloud based solution provider partners with Peking Uni

Singapore: Medidata, global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, has expanded its p...

April 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ScinoPharm to develop Regadenoson for China

Singapore: Taiwan-based ScinoPharm and China-based Nanjing King-friend Biochemical Pharmaceutical have entered into a co...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | News
US investment firm expands in China

Singapore: Ally Bridge Group (ABG), a global healthcare-focused investment platform, has expanded its global biopharmace...

January 9, 2015 | Friday | News
GSK fined a mammoth sum of $489 mn

Singapore: According to sources, a Chinese court has imposed a fine of $489 million on the British drug maker, Glaxosmit...

October 1, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China begins a nationwide 3 month pharma probe

Singapore: After increasing probes into operations of pharmaceutical multinational operations in China, the country's St...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Teijin, Ipsen launch gigantism drug

Singapore: Teijin Pharma, the core company of the Teijin Group's healthcare business, and Ipsen launched Somatuline 60/...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | News
'Medical device regulatory is complex'

Singapore: Medical device industry is a complex one and even more complex is the regulatory landscape of the sector, ech...

November 4, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
China's CStone raises $150 mn in Series A Funding

Singapore: Chinese biopharmaceutical company CStone recently announced that it has raised $150 million in Series A fundi...

July 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
Beike awaits CFDA nod for stem cell application

Singapore: China-based Beike Biotechnology has recieved Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) nod for filing the a...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
Black carbon in air - Major cause of high BP

Singapore: In a study published in the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explained that pollution from cooking s...

August 29, 2014 | Friday | News
China's PW Medtech acquires Beijing Tianxinfu

Singapore: China-based medtech firm, PW Medtech has acquired Beijing Tianxinfu Medical Appliance, a supplier of regenera...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | News
Mindray goes on acquisition spree for strong portfolio

Mindray Medical International is emerging as a global name in the medical devices industry, marking 25 percent growth in...

June 22, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Shanghai hosts health industry summit

European countries are the dominant consumers of drugs however, it will slowdown in future giving way to developing coun...

May 23, 2016 | Monday | News
Swiss CMO sets up manufacturing unit in China

Singapore: Switzerland-based contract manufacturing organization (CMO), Siegfried Holdings, has started the construction...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Venter lab, Novartis to synthesize new bird flu genes

Singapore: The J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and Synthetic Genomics Vaccines (SGVI), US, are working with Novartis to ...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sanofi sets up its first R&D hub in Asia

Singapore: French drug maker Sanofi recently announced the opening of its first research hub in Asia in Shanghai, China....

October 6, 2014 | Monday | News
H7N9 2013 – Flu returns with a vengence

The rise of the flu - Early 2013 Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Outbreak Report • 44 DEAD, 135 INFECTED• First re...

January 16, 2014 | Thursday | News
WuXi to establish presence in Boston, SF by 2015

Singapore: China-based research and development service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, plans to expand its operations in US ...

December 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Leica to distribute cervical cancer diagnostic technology in China

Singapore: Novacyt, cancer and infectious disease diagnostics company, and Leica Biosystems, a supplier to the pathology...

March 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
ScinoPharm collaborates with Raffles PharmaTech

Singapore: Taiwan-based ScinoPharm has entered into a strategic collaboration with Raffles PharmaTech to manufacture "Ce...

June 23, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China to allow online sales of presciption drugs

Singapore: The Chinese Food and Drug Administration has planned to introduce a new policy that will allow the online sal...

January 20, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China Cord Blood gets US accredition

Singapore: Guangdong subsidiary of China Cord Blood Corporation, a provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
FDA raises alert on chinese drug for joint pain

Singapore: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has raised alert on chinese medicine, Jianbu Huqian Wan, a product promote...

May 6, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
HUYA, TIPR announce medical innovation JV

Singapore: In a bid to develop medical innovation for global markets, industry leaders, HUYA Bioscience International an...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
WuXi CRO gets toxicity prediction software license

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, a China-based contract research organization (CRO), has obtained a multiyear license to Adme...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Waters UPLC I-Class System approved in China

Singapore: The Chinese food and drug administration has approved the usage of Waters' ACQUITY UPLC I- Class IVD/Xevo TQ...

April 17, 2015 | Friday | News
China to export macrolide antibiotic to India

Singapore: China-based Tianyin Pharmaceutical's API operation Jiangchuan Macrolide Facility has initiated the applicatio...

September 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Leukemia cluster among iPhone 6 workers

Singapore: Apple had recently announced that pre-orders for iPhone 6 smartphones reached 4 million within 24 hours. But,...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Israel firm to develop epilepsy drug in China

Singapore: Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Israel based D-Pharm to conduct clinical development...

April 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Bayer completes acquisition of Chinese pharmaceutical firm

Singapore: Bayer has completed the acquisition of Dihon Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd., Kunming, Yunnan, China. This is B...

November 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China frames a policy for hospital drug purchases

Singapore: The Chinese health ministry has recently issued an policy stating that hospitals must purchase drugs only fro...

March 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Demand for generics in Asia is drawing pharma majors

The clinical trials market in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has been steadily growing with increased focus primarily on...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
Merck aims to expand its China business

Singapore: Leading pharma giant Merck has reinforced its commitments towards China, in a bid to strengthen its position ...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Slow and Steady Growth

Singapore:  YUNNAN BAIYAO GROUP, ChinaChairman: Mr Yin PinyaoRevenue: $2942.4mnBusiness: Traditional Chinese Medicines...

June 24, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis