23-Aug-17 The Chinese government has made public it plans to further promote the development of the healthcare industry in order to meet the needs of the rapidly growing elderly population, including policies to encourage private medical services and foreign investors. [image: CCTV News]

18-Sep-17 Leading Indian e-pharmacy company 1mg is supporting the Drugs Consultative Committee's recommendation that all e-pharmacies be registered with a national portal monitoring online sales of drugs and geographical restrictions on operations. [image: VC Circle]

17-Aug-17 India's Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority exercised its emergency powers to reduce knee implant prices by as much as 69%, instead of waiting for them to be included in the List of Essential Medicines as it did on stents. [image: ET Healthworld / BCCL]

13-Jul-17 Only half of doctors in China have a five-year medical degree. In an effort to grow the number of licensed physicians, China lowered educational requirements, possibly undermining its efforts to overhaul the Chinese healthcare system. [image: Visual China]

29-Jun-17 China will diversify how it pays healthcare costs in a bid to stem "irrational growth". The Ministry of Finance said it would develop methods including fees according to diagnoses, fees linked to diseases, and per capita or bed-linked fees. [image: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters]