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 ...

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 devel...

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) o...

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 6...

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