Advancing the understanding of commercial, regulatory and other vital healthcare concerns affecting Asia today.

If you can’t beat them, join them

Posted on May 27, 2009

Interesting article in the FT today… not particularly informative nor deep in analysis, but provocative for thought nonetheless. This article describes the recent trend of Big Pharma to partner with or acquire generic drug manufacturers and suggests, at least tangentially that this “may be essential for the industry to arrive at a sustainable new business [...]

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In response to Damjan, (How Asia Changed the Game in Cars and (could) in Healthcare)

Posted on May 17, 2009

From: Asia Health Care Blog: How Asia Changed the Game in Cars and (could) in Healthcare Damjan, Other than “the Asian health market is a perfect testing ground for American healthcare leaders to come and build lighter and more innovative hospital systems.” I am unclear as to what within the Asia experience of delivering healthcare [...]

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Singapore – Why is it an obvious choice?

Posted on May 15, 2009

Strong Local Support Industry Considering the increasing number of medtech companies preferring Singapore over other locations in Asia, we can only assume that Singapore has its unique attractiveness that sets it apart from others. One very distinct feature of Singapore is its very strong base of electronics and precision engineering industry built up since the [...]

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