Industry Watch
•  Strategic Commercial Partnership for Australian Biotech Innovation
•  AGT Partners IPD in Anti-Obesity Therapies Development
•  Genesis Biomedical Acquires ENSI~MED
•  Sulfa Drug Output Increases Despite Declining Demand
•  China’s Pharmaceutical Retail Market in First Half 2003
•  Shanghai Company Collaborates with Inner Mongolia Pharma Group
•  Venkateshwara Group Creates New Vaccine Manufacturing Division
•  Pfizer India Prioritized as Prime R&D Hub
•  Pharmac Caught in Losec Dispute
•  Cardinal Health Establishes Singapore Operation

Products/Services Highlight
•  Singapore Hospitals Adopt PET/CT
•  Apollo Unveils Disease Management Program

Research Findings
•  Non-identical Female Twins Carry High Fertility Genes?
•  Scientists Discover Spina Bifida Gene
•  Potential Flu Remedy Discovered in Seaweed
•  Green Tea Contains Active Ingredients against AIDS
•  Herbicide Offers Insights for TB Treatment
•  Latest Ultrasensitive Biosensors by IBN

Rules & Regulations
•  Japan Revises Laws for Handling SARS Outbreak

Agriculture
•  Philippines Testing GM Papayas

Alternative Medicine
•  South India as Medicinal Plants Hub

General News
•  Australia BIF to Boost Biotech Innovation
•  Agilent Participates in Inaugural Chinese Medicine World Congress
•  Bioinformatics - Megabucks Business
•  Gates’ Initiatives in Fighting AIDS in India
•  HIV Cases on the Rise in Singapore

Global Development
•  WHO and UNAIDS Unveil Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Program

Education
•  Top Medical Universities Establish Joint Ph.D. Program

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