Asia Healthcare Blog
Exploring the intersection of investment and development, in Asia


 
Archive for 2012
 

 
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Forced Blood Donations in Beijing Surgery Clinics (China Hearsay smells Vampires)

People in China have a different set of reasonable expectations from their healthcare providers and their government and don't have access to the same range of remedies that people who live in America do.
by Damjan Denoble
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trout in the milk, melamine in China

Chinese Melamine and American Trout

Trout in the milk - today this phrase has been lost in common discourse, though it is alive and well among lawyers and law students. So, it's perhaps not surprising that during China's ongoing Melamine-in-the-milk problems, co...
by Damjan Denoble
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barefoot_doctor, china healthcare, health incentives in China,

Asia Trends Monitoring: Changing Incentives in China’s Healthcare System

Michigan Law School is hard and I was right in saying that I wouldn't have time to write posts during 1L; so it's nice when someone writes a good post for me, and even better when the post includes great interest to me generall...
by Damjan Denoble
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UPS in China, UPS medical instruments, medical instruments, UPS, medical supply chain

UPS Betting Big on Asia Healthcare Growth, $180 million invested in China

To call the 180 million dollar move 'tentative' would be wrong. This is an effort by UPS to get things right the first time, and a recognition that as supply management to hospitals stands now UPS is going to have to bushwhack...
by Damjan Denoble
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unpeeled carrots India, the Lancet, India politics, bad reporting

Wake up call for the Lancet? or Wake up call to India and world? Both should peel their carrots.

How two recent stories - that of Anil Potti, the resume forging Duke Medical School researcher who faked his way into the Lancet, and the emergence of a new, potentially dangerous Superbug from India which has scientists worrie...
by Damjan Denoble
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