The Securities Association of China plans to take strict self-discipline measures and have “zero tolerance” for bribery. Recently, the Securities Association of China plans to amend some provisions of the “Securities Association of China Implementation Measures for Self-Discipline Measures” to thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee’s decision-making and deployment on insisting on investigating both bribery and bribery, and severely punish bribery in the capital market with a “zero tolerance” attitude . Recently, companies such as Dashanlin and Huayu Software were punished for bribery by their units, thus becoming negative examples in the capital market. Racing to gain acreage on the commercial battlefield and seeking fame in the capital market is the current situation of Da Shen Lin (603233.SH). On the evening of April 12, an announcement released by Dashenlin showed that the company received a “Criminal Judgment”. Its subsidiary Maoming Dashenlin Chain Pharmacy Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Maoming Subsidiary”) ...
Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued a work plan to organize and carry out special actions on advertising supervision in the field of people’s livelihood across the country from April to November 2024. Among them, the first thing to bear the brunt is to maintain a high-pressure and severe crackdown on illegal medical beauty advertising. The document emphasizes that the release of medical beauty advertisements should be strictly regulated, and illegal behaviors such as publishing medical beauty advertisements without advertising review, creating anxiety about appearance, and exaggerating the effects of medical beauty will be severely cracked down on. Seriously investigate and deal with the behavior of platforms, live broadcast rooms, beauty anchors, and celebrities publishing illegal medical beauty advertisements in live broadcast marketing. No.9 Observation will continue to observe the medical beauty industry and the general health industry. Under the strong supervision of the medical beauty industry by ...
Dive Brief Steris has agreed to sell its dental business to investment firm Peak Rock Capital for $787.5 million in cash, the companies said on Thursday. The sale will allow Steris to focus on its core markets of healthcare, pharma and medtech, CEO Dan Carestio said in a statement. The Mentor, Ohio-based company provides sterilizers and washers, surgical tables and other equipment. Steris decided to divest the dental segment “after a thorough review of strategic alternatives,” Carestio said. The business reported $407 million in revenue and $86 million in operating income during the 12-month period ending Dec. 31, 2023. Dive Insight Steris acquired the dental business in 2021 when it bought Cantel for $4.6 billion. The purchase was expected to complement Steris’ existing business, adding infection control products for endoscopy and providing an entry into the dental market. Now, the company is looking to sell the segment. Peak Rock Capital ...
QIAGEN (Venlo, the Netherlands) has released the QIAstat-Dx Analyzer 2.0, including the Software 1.6 upgrade. This represents a significant advancement from the initial QIAstat-Dx Analyzer 1.0, offering enhanced capabilities for the accurate, rapid, and cost-effective identification of complex syndromes. The system, which is designed for laboratory settings, incorporates economical, disposable cartridges that integrate sample preparation with all necessary reagents on board. Leveraging multiplex real-time PCR technology, it can identify and distinguish between various pathogens, delivering results within approximately one hour. Additionally, the system enables the display of cycle threshold (Ct) values and amplification curves, providing deeper analytical insights beyond those achievable with endpoint PCR or alternative methodologies. A key feature of this upgraded system is the introduction of the QIAstat-Dx Operational Module PRO, which is equipped with a 64-bit processor and 4GB of RAM. This enables the Remote Results Application, a pioneering tool in syndromic testing that allows for the ...
The Companion+ Mobile Safety App will be rolled out to a further 115 users within the UK and US Inizio Engage has announced that it has teamed up with Applied Driving to support its clinical team as well as other lone workers using the Companion+ Mobile Safety App, a safer driving and personal safety solution. The app has been rolled out to 65 mobile employees, with plans to expand to a further 115 users within the UK and US. Developed by Applied Driving, Companion+ is designed to improve driver behaviour while protecting users in a sphere of safety. Comprising safety messages, video or e-learning modules tailored to the user’s specific needs, the app automatically sends triggered training to users after assessing at-risk driving events. “Companion+ will offer our mobile clinical team discreet safety and security, anytime,” said Caroline McGlynn, head of clinical solutions, Inizio Engage. “The… app possesses advanced functionality ...
Pharmacy solutions and pharmacy benefit managers perform several functions, including administrative tasks, handling benefit processing claims and negotiating with the supply chain. However, the problem is that many of them are performing these tasks on outdated technology. “All of those things, to do them well, require a foundation of technology capabilities to enable our people to operate at the top of their license. … The majority of the industry is using 30 to 40-year-old technology to do all of this work,” said Mostafa Kamal, president and CEO of pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics, in an interview. That’s why Prime Therapeutics has formed a strategic alliance with Capital Rx, which is also a PBM, the companies announced last week. Through the alliance, Prime Therapeutics will be the only PBM — aside from Capital Rx — to use Capital Rx’s JUDI platform. JUDI is a pharmacy benefits administration platform that puts all ...
The NHS has announced it is targeting young adults to catch up on their missed measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines as part of the NHS catch-up campaign. In England, more than 900,000 adults aged 19 to 25 years will be invited to book an appointment for their missed vaccine. Following on from the national health service’s recent reminder for 200,000 16- to 19-year-olds to receive the MMR vaccine, the NHS campaign will target young adults in areas more at risk: the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and London. MMR are highly infectious illnesses that can lead to blindness, deafness and swelling of the brain. Currently one of the most infectious diseases globally, with no medical treatment available, one adult or child infected with measles can pass the disease on to around 15 other unvaccinated individuals. According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), between October 2023 and March 2024, approximately ...
More awareness is needed to encourage women to take up HIV testing amid slow progress in tackling transmission, the UK Health Security Agency’s Chief Medical Adviser has warned today. Despite a significant fall in cases among gay and bisexual men between 2019 and 2022, heterosexual groups are not following the same trajectory. Since 2021, progress has slowed in reducing HIV transmission among heterosexual women, with cases rising by 26% from 447 to 564 in 2022. And in 2022, 40% of women attending sexual health services were not offered an HIV test compared to 27% of heterosexual men and 23% of gay and bisexual men who weren’t offered a test. Factors including a fall in the number of heterosexuals testing since the COVID-19 pandemic and a focus on groups other than women are among the reasons believed responsible. Women were also less likely to start or continue PrEP, according to the ...
During the onset of the pandemic, individuals experiencing symptoms had to endure lengthy queues for lab-based PCR testing and then wait around two days for the results, to confirm if they were infected with the COVID-19 virus. This process was not only inconvenient but also involved complex and costly logistics, contributing to testing delays and increasing the risk of spreading the disease. Now, a newly developed biosensing technology enables the creation of gene test strips that can match the quality of traditional lab-based tests. The new technology developed by a team of biomedical engineers at UNSW Sydney (Sydney, Australia) offers test strips that are as accurate as lab-based PCR tests, with the added advantage of quick, on-site disease detection. Described by the researchers as having “PCR in your pocket,” this advancement holds potential for broad applications in biomedical and environmental diagnostics across various sectors, including food, agriculture, and biosafety management. ...
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