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China, HK, Macau
 

More medical tourism questions

We’ve written about medical tourism multiple times, I am still sceptical. Evan Falchuk raises an interesting point over at See First Blog with his post The Curious Case of Medical Tourism [...] [There] is a great deal of...
by James Flanagan
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China, HK, Macau
 

U.S. Department of Commerce plans visit to India

From Business Standard: Medical trade mission to come to India in March 2010 The US Department of Commerce plans to take a ‘Medical Trade Mission’, comprising top American medical and healthcare industry manufacture...
by Ram
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India & the ASEAN
 

Prevention of Swine Flu helps India’s public health

In India, the recent swine flu epidemic has dramatically increased sales of hand sanitizers.  From Express India: H1N1 raises hygiene levels, hand sanitisers vanish off shelves Over the past week, demand for antiseptic hand wa...
by Ram
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China, HK, Macau
 

Talking Micro Pharmacies in China

Micro pharmacy clinics are starting to become my favorite private health care idea for the Asian healthcare context.  And, the question that I want to answer is how they can be made profitable in China. I think the business mo...
by Damjan Denoble
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China, HK, Macau
 

China’s Essential Drug List prompts Rise of Retail Drug Stores

On August 18, the Chinese MoH released a list of 307 essential medicines that will become available at heavily subsidized prices starting on September 25th.   An IHS Global report summarizes things well; All the drugs in the ...
by Damjan Denoble
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