11-Oct-16 Hong Kong’s most prominent medical school will revamp its training programme for medical students to give them more comprehensive training not only in public wards, but also for the first time in a new private teaching hospital and a related facility in Shenzhen. [image: South China Morning Post]

06-Oct-16 Taiwan’s National Arthroplasty Registry, the first of its kind in Asia, is helping increase the success rate of local joint replacement procedures. Containing information on implants, cases and surgery techniques, the registry assists healthcare professionals in tracking trends impacting patient recovery and identifying problematic joints. [image: CNA]

03-Oct-16 Intuitive Surgical is expanding into robotic-assisted catheter-based medical devices through a JV with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical. These devices will use IP from Intuitive Surgical and will focus on diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. R&D and manufacturing will take place in Shanghai. Intuitive Surgical will oversee distribution outside China while the JV will be in charge within China. [image: Asian Scientist Magazine]

02-Oct-16 A pioneering Singapore fertility expert will head efforts to help Chinese women who find it hard to conceive, by setting up medical centres in China. They set up their first in Xiamen two years ago, and will open a centre in Chengdu by Dec-15. "We hope to expand into a network of 600 satellite women's clinics," said CEO Ms Bi. [image: Chew Seng Kim / ST]

01-Oct-16 A Chinese government investigation has revealed that more than 80% of the data used in clinical trials of new drugs have been "fabricated". The investigation, led by the SFDA, looked at data from 1,622 clinical trials. The SFDA found that the suspect data failed to meet analysis requirements, were incomplete, or totally non-existent. [image: Plavevski / Shutterstock / Science Alert]