Medical drugs

AstraZeneca signs CSPC China deal for experimental kidney disease drugs

In what appears to be a first, a presentation of a clinical trail conducted exclusively in China will be a headliner at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.

China’s rise in drug development looms over US

A pharmaceutical firm in India has launched a weight-loss injection that costs from 1,290 rupees (S$17) a month.
THINKING ALOUD

A GLP-1 tsunami is headed for the vice industry. Good.

AstraZeneca's CEO is steering the European drugmaking giant towards its goal of US$80 billion in annual sales by 2030.

AstraZeneca beats sales and profit expectations on cancer drug demand

China’s flagship project, the National Biobank, has grown into one of the world’s largest since launching in Shenzhen in 2016 and Beijing is pushing to make it the biggest.

China races to build record biobank to rival US drugs research

Drugmakers will face a choice between absorbing the cost of tariffs or raising prices for their medicines.

Trump will impose 100% tariff on some patented drugs

India is the first major market to see a flood of copycat semaglutide medications.

Low-cost Ozempic copies launch in India as Novo Nordisk’s patent expires

The WHO’s normative functions remain indispensable for coherent global action.
NEW GLOBAL ORDER

Rethinking our global health architecture in a fragmented world

Merck's prescription medicine, Keytruda, generated more than US$30 billion in 2025 and accounted for nearly half the company's total revenue.

Merck to create separate cancer business as Keytruda patent loss looms

The nation faces the second-highest burden of diabetes globally, after China, according to Lancet.

India to spend 100 billion rupees to make biopharma production hub