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The best treatment recommended by doctors is carbon-ion therapy, which is not available in Singapore.

An intense debate is going on in India on whether patented drugs should be selected and identified for inclusion in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) 2020.

This study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of the reform and investigating its positive impacts and unintended consequences to provide evidence basis for further policy making.

Many say they are reassured because politicians and executives have been inoculated. But experts say the risks outweigh the benefits.

For years, China has been a primary source of fentanyl trafficked into the United States.

The Lipitor and Viagra maker is embarking on a strategic shift to maintain growth in the world’s second-largest drug market after China slashed prices for off-patent medicines by more than 90% in some instances.

This overview published via Nature analyses the landscape of domestic oncology drug pipelines in China, and discusses the evolution of the pharmaceutical ecosystem and R&D trends.

A city in China’s Zhejiang province will offer experimental coronavirus vaccines to its residents, as China broadens an emergency use programme to people in non-priority groups.

A city in eastern China has started offering a coronavirus vaccine to the general public - although it has not yet completed clinical trials.

A Chinese city is offering Sinovac Biotech’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers and other high-risk groups as part of a national programme for about $60.

Indonesia’s health ministry has signed a letter of intent with AstraZeneca.

To evaluate the impact of new National Drug Pricing Policy (NDPP) 2018 on access to medicines in terms of prices, availability and affordability.

The most common adverse reactions reported by the trial participants were mild pain, slight fatigue and redness, itching and swelling at the injection site.

China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use.

In an effort to provide better treatment for COVID-19 patients and help bring down the mortality rate from the pandemic, the Indonesian government has begun securing a substantial amount of therapeutics that could work against the disease.