Topic: East Asia

Health experts sound warning over iodine rush

Japan's nuclear crisis has sparked panic buying of iodine pills, with online bids exceeding $500 for one packet, but health experts hosed down the hysteria and warned the pills are of limited use.As fresh blasts rocked a stricken atomic plant on Japan's ...

universal health care

i understand alot of people would love to have the?universal health care. We are a broke country getting worse.China won't even lend us anymore money. The government is printing money non stop and our dollar value is dropping drastically. We used to ...

Body Politics

The article focuses on the initiatives of the government of China to improve its public healthcare emergency system and the challenges and problems encountered in the development of country's healthcare system in rural areas. 24 BEIJING REVIEW AUGUST 23, 2007 NATION By ...

Cabinet shake-up tests Taiwan's pro-China president

TAIPEI (Reuters) - China-friendly Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou faces a new test of public confidence ahead of tense year-end elections after the sudden resignation of his justice minister and the health minister's threat to quit.KMT election losses at the end of the ...
BioCryst takes bigger 3Q loss after starting late-stage tests of IV flu treatment peramivirBioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Thursday reported a larger third-quarter loss as it stepped up testing of its experimental IV flu treatment peramivir.In the third quarter, BioCryst said it took ...
As China embarks on an ambitious effort to make basic medical services more affordable and available to its 1.3 billion people, the health-care industry is in for a boom. Mindray is currently doing better overseas and United Laboratories is focused on Chinese ...

FDA opens new China office

FDA opens new China office as part of global strategy to ensure safety of importsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened an office Wednesday in China's capital its first outside the United States as part of a new global strategy to ensure ...

U.S. Inspectors To Monitor Safety of Chinese Exports

Recent problems with tainted products from China, including the blood-thinner heparin and toys with lead paint on them, have meant increased pressure on the FDA to keep an eye on products before they leave that country and head for the U.S. Lawmakers ...
Beijing Med-Pharm (BJGP) has completed its acquisition of Sunstone Pharmaceutical Corporation and will change the name of the company to BMP Sunstone Corporation to reflect the composition of the new corporation. In a statement, David Gao, Chief Executive Officer of BMP Sunstone, ...
US, China Set Timetable for Safety Deals on Food and Other Export ProductsBeijing and Washington have agreed to cooperate more closely on product and food safety, the two governments announced.That move came as U.S. officials wrapped up a visit that coincided with ...
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