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Vetter announces office in Japan

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15-Oct-15 Vetter, a global leader in aseptic manufacturing of drug-delivery systems, has announced a new business entity in Japan. As the second largest pharmaceutical single market, Japan is home to a number of leading global companies which offer a promising injectable pipeline. [image: Business Wire]

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Indian drug retailers protest against e-pharmacies

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14-Oct-15 Indian drug retailers shut up shop for the day on Wednesday to protest against the country's growing online pharmacy industry, and threatened to close indefinitely if the government did not shut down e-pharmacies. The nationwide protest was supported by as many as 850,000 chemists, leaving patients waiting in long queues. [image: Reuters]

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Kicking the foreign drug habit in Myanmar

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10-Oct-15 Myanmar is trying to kick its foreign drug habit: In recent years the government has offered incentives to seven private distributors to try their hand at manufacturing domestically. All other pharmaceutical products – between 80 percent and 90 percent – are imported. [image: Ann Wang / Frontier Myanmar]

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China’s high cancer drug prices create a market in Hong Kong

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09-Oct-15 Many treatments, including Herceptin and Gilead Sciences’ Sovaldi for hepatitis C, are either unavailable or more expensive in China than elsewhere. Aside from the lower price, visitors to Hong Kong from the mainland also prefer to buy their medicine there because they believe it is less likely to be counterfeit. [image: Bloomberg Business]

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Application of biotech prioritised in Vietnam

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01-Oct-15 Vietnam's Ministry of Science & Technology will continue prioritising the national-level key science and technology programme on the application and development of advanced technology serving healthcare activities, pledged Minister Nguyen Quan. Together with mastering molecular biotechnologies in defining disease-causing substances, the programme has also helped raise preventive medicine and vaccine technologies to regional standards. [image: VNA]

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