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INDIA • Rice diplomacy in South Asia • Indian court's Novartis ruling keeps door to cheap drugs open
INDONESIA • A blueprint for changing diabetes in Indonesia
SINGAPORE • Understanding abnormal proteins in degenerative diseases • Singapore scientist wins coveted Chen New Investigator Award 2013 • Singapore single-cell research center opens door for Asian biological discoveries
THE PHILIPPINES • Wild parent spawns super salt-tolerant rice
AUSTRALIA • Women: Hormone therapy won't harm your head • QLD government's removal of "green tape" will achieve results for all • Chinese herbs help cut diabetes symptoms • iSonea launches new AsthmasenseTM cloud technology
EUROPE • Bone Therapeutics and Erasme University Hospital start Phase IIa trial in osteoporosis
NORTH AMERICA • Medicago and IDRI reports positive results for its Phase I clinical trial for an H5N1 vaccine • Civitas Therapeutics announces positive Phase II clinical results an inhaled L-dopa for Parkinson's disease • Impel NeuroPharma completes industry's first nose-to-brain human imaging study • A new treatment option for alcohol dependence: Reduced consumption rather than abstinence • Targacept completes recruitment in Phase IIb schizophrenia trial
UNITED KINGDOM • ID deadly pathogens without growing bacteria
EYE ON CHINA • ScinoPharm Taiwan and Coland Holdings establish strategic alliance for oncological injectable products for China • Researchers investigate the effects of thinning on soil respiration and its sensitivity in a pine plantation, eastern Tibetan Plateau • Ascletis gains China market rights from Janssen to a clinical stage HIV protease inhibitor • The genome sequences of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle offer new clues to the development and evolution of turtle–specific body plan • Daiichi Sankyo launches Silodosin for the treatment of Dysuria in China • China plans research centres to aid developing world • HKU finds novel coronavirus can infect humans respiratory tract even better than SARS-CoV • BGI Health collaborates with Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences on non-invasive fetal Trisomy test for improving reproductive health in the Middle East • Baxter China partners with government to increase access to renal therapy
FEATURES • Hospitals' Community Benefits • The Question of Fair Benefits in International Research • Access to Medicines and Corporate Social Responsibilities of the Pharmaceutical Industry • Corporate Social Responsibility of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Solidaristic Terms
REVIEW • Strategic Partnerships - an important tool for social engagement • Healthcare IT India Summit kicks off on a high note
INSIDE INDUSTRY • Agilent Technologies supports Professor's work developing transformative NMR applications for structural biology • Alchemia announces multi-target drug discovery collaboration with AstraZeneca on VAST discovery platform • DSM and DecImmune Therapeutics sign agreement to develop N2 pathway blocking antibody • Novel technology from Columbia University for Neurobiological Research • A new EU-funded industry-academia drug discovery partnership targets challenging kinases • Avian Influenza A (H7N9) threatens, GenScript supports researchers in impending battle
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