Reports of the country’s first African swine fever case in China’s Liaoning province sparked increased inspections at pig farms and markets and beefed up the scrutinizing of hog transportation.
A new report by nonprofit group Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK) exposes the prime offenders of the U.S. patent system, the pharma giants who are taking advantage of its loopholes to amass huge profits.
China's medical device market is growing at a rate of 20% a year, with more than 15,000 medical device manufacturers and 40,000 medical device traders. Often specific regions in the country have centralized manufacturing with higher production schedule efficiency of medical device products.
As a result of constant advances in the medical industry, there are numerous medical devices products on the market, often making it difficult to choose the most reliable ones, an important decision since some of these devices will be used to save or prolong patients’ life.
According to an international study funded by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, the genetic screening of fertilized eggs for embryo selection during assisted reproduction does not make any difference to live birth rates.
On July 6th, the health ministry of Congo announced that health workers in were setting up refrigerators for maintaining an Ebola vaccine under cold conditions in order to tackle an Ebola outbreak, which was believed to have affected an estimated 43 people.
HitGen and Merck have updated their licensing agreement to a full-fledged drug discovery collaboration in order to screen DNA-encoded libraries for new small-molecule assets.
Hypotrichosis is defined as the condition of abnormal hair patterns which leads to predominant loss or reduction. Usually, hair growth is normal after birth, but later, hair starts shedding and is replaced by abnormal hair growth patterns. The new hair will be short and brittle without pigmentation.
It is estimated that one person dies every hour as a result of melanoma in the United States. In the past decade, the count has been increased by 53 percent. A recent study suggests that regular use of sunscreen lotions in childhood can reduce the risk of melanoma by 40 percent in young adulthood.
Janssen Korea becomes yet another drugmaker to shut its Hyangnam plant in Hwaseong, South Korea, by 2021, stranding an uncounted number of employees.
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