South Korea’s Shock Move to Legalise Medical Cannabis
Southeast Asia’s notoriously strict anti-cannabis laws could be set to relax dramatically as South Korea becomes the first country in the region to legalise cannabis for medicinal use. This…
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Southeast Asia’s notoriously strict anti-cannabis laws could be set to relax dramatically as South Korea becomes the first country in the region to legalise cannabis for medicinal use. This…
Halal pharmaceuticals – medicines that do not contain any alcohol, parts of animals such as dogs, pigs, bees, or any other substances prohibited as ‘haram’ under Shariah law – are…
Following China’s vaccine scandal earlier this year, the country’s drug administration has considerably tightened up inspection processes of vaccine manufacturers which is causing shortages and raising the risk of widespread…
How Malaysia is setting itself up to provide biosimilars across the Islamic world as well as Asia. Inno Bio Ventures, a Malaysian state-owned company originally set up to create…
Although death rates due to cardiovascular diseases in Spain are among the lowest in the EU, they represent the main cause of death in Spain, accounting for 30% of all…
There are around 2 billion people in the world that do not have access to the medicines they need. This week the 2018 Access to Medicine Index was published revealing…
With stiffening up of local content requirements well underway, many multinational drug developers seeking to introduce their therapies to the Algerian marketplace have been scrambling to team up with the…
Malaysia’s multi-ethnic population, disease burden, medical infrastructure and research speed, combined with its population’s proficiency in English, make the Southeast Asian nation a potentially excellent regional clinical trials destination. …
Cancer is the leading cause of death in France, accounting for 28.5% of all deaths in 2014, followed by cardiovascular diseases, which accounted for 25%. However, there are gender differences:…
At the 2018 Financial Times Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference, there was a lot of buzz around ‘patient centricity’ and all of the big pharma companies were determined to broadcast their…
Energetically touting itself as “Asia’s World City” as well as a connector between East and West with its inextricable links to both mainland China and the international community, Hong Kong…
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