The China Food and Drug Administration will end cooperation with Alibaba Group Holding’s e-commerce subsidiary Alihealth on a project for authenticating medicines, Caixin reported, citing unnamed sources from an industry meeting with Sun Xianze, vice director of the administration. Sun told industry representatives that the administration would continue to push new system, which uses bar […]
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Five people have been indicted in the US on federal charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from pharmaceuticals conglomerate GlaxoSmithKline and provide them to firms operating in China, The Wall Street Journal reported. The indictment alleges that a protein biochemist who only stopped working for the firm in January had used her Glaxo email […]
Online search and services giant Baidu has ended a policy allowing private companies to run some of its online forums after users of one sub-forum set up by patients with hemophilia complained that their boards were being flooded with ads promoting treatments and drugs from unlicensed medical facilities, Caixin reported. Users of other forums for […]
Six new cases of H5N6 avian flu have been reported in China, though the virus is not yet able to be transmitted between humans, South China Morning Post reported, citing local media. Three of the cases have occurred in Guangdong, where all three patients had contact with live poultry or visited poultry markets. No person in […]
Dalian Wanda Group will invest RMB15 billion (US$2.3 billion) toward building three private hospitals in Shanghai, Chengdu and Qingdao to be run by British health-care operator International Hospitals Group, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a statement from Wanda. The announcement, which contrasts with the real estate conglomerate’s previously stated goal to cut reliance on the […]