Clinical Research

30 Sep 2011

It is a medical-breakthrough story that went long untold: how a team of researchers spent 13 years amid the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution to find a successful treatment for malaria.

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Poll favours Foster design for Kowloon cultural hub

26 Feb 2011

Norman Foster has produced the most popular design for the West Kowloon Cultural District, according to a public poll that ranked the three finalist design teams.

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Investors flock to new powerhouse

31 Aug 2010

Malaysia is one of the most popular destinations for Hongkongers, whether for tourism or business.

9:47AM

Investors bullish on prospects for mainland drug industry

28 May 2007

The low penetration of health-care insurance in the mainland, rising incomes and government policy would provide a boom in the local drug market, investors attending an industry conference have...

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Deaths from fake drug rise to nine

23 May 2006

Corruption likely reason medication approved: doctor

The death toll from a drug containing a fake ingredient sold by one of the biggest pharmaceutical firms in Heilongjiang has risen...

6:21PM

Means test set for leukaemia drug

20 Jan 2005

Critics say the cutoff for eligibility to subsidies is unfair to some users of Glivec

Leukaemia patients will be subject to a means test before they can receive subsidies for an...

9:14PM

Opinion

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

5:37PM

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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5:24AM

Test drug volunteers demand help

The plight of a group of leukaemia patients who were used as guinea pigs in a two-year drug trial is to be debated today by legislators on the health service panel.

2:02AM

Sterilisation target deplored

Health workers and medical scientists in India are at the centre of a growing row over allegations that they regularly recruit illiterate people into clinical trials and sterilisation programmes...

5:05AM

Boost for pharmaceuticals

Shanghai will invest more than one billion yuan on research and development to promote its modern biological pharmaceutical industry during the next three years.

6:42PM

Drug firm's turnover rockets

Red chip China Pharmaceutical Enterprise and Investment Corp said first-half net profit doubled to $41 million after turnover rose 98.7 per cent to $251 million.

5:57AM

Ethics rethink for lawmakers

LEGISLATORS and the public are to be consulted again on whether a committee and guidelines are needed on possible misconduct among lawmakers.

10:29AM

Shame about the sponsors

IT was indeed heartening to read the contents of the advertisement taken out by the Hongkong College of General Practitioners (HKCGP) to celebrate its 15th anniversary (South China Morning Post,...

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