October 30, 2007, the chairman of Beijing Novartis Pharma Ltd. Liu Zhenxian said Novartis China would continue to increase OTC products, convert smoking cessation products Nicotinell to OTC products, recover the sales commission of Lamisil form GSK, and introduce new types of OTC drug. Beijing Novartis planed to increase the ratio of China OTC business from 10% to 1/3 in 3 to 5 years.
From the end of 2006, Novartis had made all-round plan for the development of the OTC business, and set up a separate OTC division. Novartis China OTC Division is a relatively independent business, including sectors of market, HR, finance, drugs registration, business. The division was managed by Liu Zhenxian.
It is learned that Novartis China Nicotinell had been converted from prescription drugs into OTC. Novartis China will pay more attention to multi-level sale channels, including hospitals, pharmacies and supermarkets.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Novartis Focus on China OTC Business
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
International Crude Oil Prices Effect Cost of Medical Package
Recently, the rising prices of international crude oil has effected the costs of China medical package industry.
For example, compared with last year, prices of the glass raw materials increased by 35% to 40%. Russian halogenated butyl rubber prices almost doubled, now offer 5,100 to 5,500 US dollars / ton, and a very tight supply. The prices of halogenated butyl rubber offered from Exxon and Lanxess rose an average of 25% to 30%, to 4,5000 US dollars / ton.
Exxon Mobil Corporation also said that if the prices of crude oil have been rising, the prices of halogenated butyl rubber will increase 5% to 10%.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Sunday, October 19, 2008
World Traditional Medicine Day
October 18 each year is World Traditional Medicine Day. This is adopted by International Congress on Traditional Medicine held in Beijing, 1991.
The conference was organized by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China and World Health Organization. The representatives from 42 countries and regions attended the meeting.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sanofi-Aventis will Open up Chinese Influenza Vaccine Market
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis hopes that after the company's the pharmaceutical factory in Shenzhen officially put into operation in 2012, the company could sell 2.5 million seasonal influenza vaccine in China.
Wayne Pisano is the head of Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccine branch of Sanofi-Aventis, said Monday that China each year the crowd of take against seasonal influenza viruses was only 2% of the total population, only a small fraction of the vaccination rate of Europe and the United States.
In Hong Kong, Pisano said that in Europe and North America, the vaccination rate is about 20% to 40%. Because the use of new vaccine production facilities in China, Sanofi-Aventishave will raise the capacity to 25 million immediately, and as China's demand increase, we still have a lot of production space.
Sanofi-Aventis invests 7,000,000 euros on the pharmaceutical factory. In the process of vaccine production, the factory will made the use of antigen. This antigen will be nurtured by eggs.
When be asked in view of China's food safety problem, how the companies to ensure that product quality. Pisano replied that we have to adopt uniform quality standards, the quality of products and equipments in Shenzhen will be same as France and the United States.
Pisano said Sanofi-Aventis have selected 50 candidates for chicken plant, and will select the final two can meet its quality standards.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Weight Loss Capsules Contain Sibutramine
As a result of containing sibutramine which is a chemical synthetic drugs, Ministry of Health P.R. China revoked the health food certificate of two brand slimming capsule, a popular weight lose products.
According to the experts, sibutramine is a weight loss drug. It's principle is speeding up metabolism and heat release, suppress the appetite of people, make people anorexia to achieve the purpose of weight loss. However, sibutramine has side effects to the human body and may cause high blood pressure, accelerate the heart rate, anorexia, insomnia, abnormal liver function and so on.
So, relevant departments clearly stipulates that sibutramine is a prescription drug, must be used under the doctors' guidance, in no way can be added to health foods.
As the sibutramine is cheap, and certainly has some effect on anti-obesity by anorexia, some unscrupulous businessmen repeatedly add it to health lose weight food to make a profit.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Thursday, September 4, 2008
India's Free Hospital
It is estimated that Indin's population living below the poverty estimate of the population in 2005 was 455 million, accounting for about one-third of the total population global poverty.
These government hospitals opened their doors to all patients. All services are all free, including the register, surgical and drugs, even health care, for example, massage.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
China Exports of Massage Apparatus Report (2007)
In recent years, the international market has strong demand of Chinese massage apparatus. And raising the level of domestic manufacturing provide technical support for manufacturing equipment. The world production gradually shifted to China, so that China become a world manufacturing centre of massage apparatus. According to customs' statistics, in 2007 China's import and export massage equipments amounted to 990 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 26.40 percent, 34.50 percent price increase. The featured products are massage chair, massage bed and massage hammer.
China's massage apparatus export to 164 countries and regions. The main market are the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Germany and Spain. And new growth points are in the market of Australia, Vietnam, South Africa. South Korea, China Taiwan's exports declined. The previous five major export markets accounting for the amount of 54.37 percent, dropped by 9 percentage, compared with 2006.
Last year, China's total of 1,786 massage equipment exporters, the export volume of over 10 million U.S. dollars were 14 enterprises, accounting for 43.69 percent of a total value of exports; exports more than 1 million U.S. dollars were 137 enterprises, 42.70 percent of the total amount. Relative high concentration of exports, but on a limited scale enterprises.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Monday, September 1, 2008
Massage Chair is Expanding to a Huge Market
Massage is a traditional method for health and leisure. There has a long history of 4000 years. It is very common in SPA centres and treatment rooms. The massage chair simulate the fingers, push the human body's fatigue and pain location, in order to increase the body's comfort.
As people's health awareness is constant high, and more and more people pay attention to leisure and relaxation, massage chairs started continuously stationed in the retail shops and the Americans homes.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Contrast of Obama and McCain's Policies
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Obama on the 3rd got the presidential nomination. This means that in November U.S. presidential election, he will represent the Democratic Party and compete with John McCain, the Republican candidate. They have different political views on a number of hot issues, in sharp contrast.
Economic
Obama: Opposes to Bush government's policy of tax cuts for the affluent sectors whose revenue is 250,000 U.S. dollars or more.
McCain: Supports Bush government's policy of income tax reduction, and intends to reduce the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%.
Obama: Urges the re-negotiated about the North American Free Trade Agreement to strengthen the terms of labour and environmental; supports to reach the free trade agreement with Peru.
McCain: Supports free trade agreement with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, and new free trade agreement negotiations with 27 EU member states; opposes the changing of North American Free Trade Area Agreement; supports for opening new trade markets.
Iraq War
Obama: Always opposed the Iraq war, and during the election campaign promised that if elected president, will withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.
McCain: Voteed in support of the Iraq war in Senate, opposed the withdrawal timetable. He recently said that if elected president, will achieve the goals of Iraq in 2013 and withdraw U.S. combat troops.
Obama: Supports the continuation of the current payment of the employer-based health insurance system; supports the federal government to impose universal child health insurance plan; establishment of a national health insurance project.
McCain: Opposes to the federal government to impose national health insurance plan.
Diplomacy
Obama: Emphasizes the negotiation is more important than military action, said that will negotiate with Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela.
McCain: Appeals United States to play a more active and effective role in the international diplomatic stage, and promises to rebuild the relationship between United States and its allies .
Climate Change
Obama: Commits reduce United States carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels in 2020.
McCain: Supports to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent before 2050; calls for the adoption of clean energy technology development and use of alternative energy sources to achieve this goal.
Originally Posted: China Business Daily
Author: Angulo Fu
Obama Accepted the President Nomination, will Focus on Economic
Evening of 28, U.S. Senator Obama accepted the presidential nomination in the Democratic National Convention, became the first minorities ethnic U.S. presidential candidate nominated by major political parties.
Recently, Obama can accommodate gave a speech to 75,000 people in the stadium of Denver. He said that the Bush government's failed policies and domestic partisan struggle over the past eight years led to declining of living standards of ordinary people. Therefore, he asked the Democrats, Republicans and independent people to take measures to change the actuality, ensure the United States hopes immortal.
Tax cuts, education, medical protection are Obama's election platform
In his speech, Obama reiterated the necessity of tax reduction policy for working families, achieving energy self-sufficiency through the development of alternative energy sources, providing world-class education for young people, and supplying health services which are affordable by all people.
Against McCain's criticism on his lack of experience in foreign and defence, Obama said the era's of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy has confirmed the Democratic Party has the ability to deal with these matters.
Obama also criticized the Bush goverment's foreign policy making the several generations of U.S. Democratic Party and the Republican's efforts have been in vain. He said that the Democratic Party will restore these legacy, and end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, prevent Iran from acquiring of nuclear weapons, establish a new partnership to deal with the the threat to U.S. in the 21st Century.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Vitamin Compounds Hot Sale on Global Market
According to China Chemical Industry News: Global drugs, health products, health food and cosmetics industries by the consumption of vitamin has a total value of over 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in the year 2007, of which the market demand of the vitamin compound increase optimisticly.
Although the growth rate of global vitamin production is only 0.5% on average, the global demand for a variety of vitamin compounds as much as 9 percent growth rate is. As the major components of health food, the various formulations of the vitamin compound' growth rates are even more alarming.
Because of promising market of vitamin compounds, foreign invest vigorously launch compound vitamin companies, such as Germany's BASF has set up 25 vitamin compound manufacturing plants in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. The total output value reached 1.5 billion Mark.
As the world's third-largest vitamin manufacturers Aventis has set up a number of vitamin manufacturing plant in Europe, Asia and Australia. The company set up a factory in Singapore specialized in supplying vitamin compound to the Southeast Asian market.
Originally Posted: MedicalIndustry.net
Author: Angulo Fu
Zhejiang NHU Restricted Price Increases Under Cost Pressures
Zhejiang NHU Company Ltd. released a new price hike announcement of vitamin A and vitamin E. Analysts said the price adjustment mainly follows the international market conditions and the pressure on operating costs. Because the economy of the vitamin industry is still in a rising stage, the price still may increase in the future.
On 10th June, Zhejiang NHU Company Ltd. announced that increased vitamin E and vitamin A's external pricing. After price hiking, the price of vitamin E 50% powder (feed-grade) increase by about 40 percent, vitamin A increase by about 80 percent. The company said the new prices can not be determined on time, and there is volatility risk in the future.
Analysts believe that in the recently, Zhejiang NHU Company Ltd.‘s vitamin products' price hike is driven by the increases in the international market and increased pressure on companies. For example, increasing inflationary, the state tightening macro-control policy, costs of environmental protection, increasing pressure on the business.
Originally Posted: MedicalIndustry.net
Author: Angulo Fu
Friday, August 15, 2008
Honduras Girl Face of AIDS Bravely
On 3th, Aug, the 17th World AIDS Conference was opening in Mexico City. In the general assembly opening session, the 12-year-old Honduran girls Ka Lunda Nawei on behalf of 33 million worldwide infected with HIV and delivered a speech raises the aspirations of all infected persons:"We refuse to tears, we will not give up!"
As early as the Karen 5 years old, parents try to told her that she as them, with a currently incurable diseases, from that time onwards, Karen understand the fact that she is an AIDS patient.
In the growth process, Karen did not, as some infected people as to remain silent, but bravely admit that they are infected with HIV. She often the people around, said:"I need most is the love you all."
In recent years, althouth Karen gradually losing weight, deteriorating health conditions, the two recent incidence even endanger the life, but she miraculously from the Ting. Karen's mother, Rosa Association for AIDS prevention in Honduras, she evaluated his daughter:"Karen is a sweet girl, she is very sensible, very innocent. Although she appears in others, unfortunately, but Karen Never gave up."
Since 1981 the United States found the first case of AIDS in the world, the world has more than 2,500 million people died of the disease. The world's 33 million HIV-infected persons, 90 percent live in poor countries, of which only 300 million people can afford to use expensive anti-retroviral drugs.
17th World AIDS Conference under the theme "Global immediate action", which is the first time the World AIDS Conference held in Latin American countries, about 22,000 people participating.
Originally Posted: MedicalIndustry.net
Author: Angulo Fu
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