U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China
U.S. investors and large pharmaceutical companies are increasingly doing deals in China as the country’s biopharma sector ...
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Merck Snags Chinese Obesity Drug in Nearly $2 Billion Deal
(Bloomberg) -- Merck & Co. snagged a potential drug in the burgeoning market for obesity medications in ... manufacture and commercialize Chinese drugmaker Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co ...
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Smaller size of high metabolic rate organs explains lower resting energy expenditure in Asian-Indian Than Chinese men
In Singapore, the obesity prevalence is disproportionately higher in the Asian-Indians and Malays than the Chinese. Lower resting energy expenditure (REE) may be a contributory factor. Two hundred ...
JSTOR Daily5y
The digital divide and body size disparity among Chinese adults
OBJECTIVE This study first examines dissimilar stages of ICT transition, and then establishes how ICT screen-viewing activities relate to the Chinese obesity epidemic. Finally, this study assesses ...
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Associations between caregivers health behaviours and overweight/obesity among children aged 2-6 years in Beijing, China: a cross-sectional study
Objective To investigate the correlation between caregivers’ health-related behaviours and the prevalence of ...
The Star17d
China to prioritise physical education in schools as obesity rates rise
Primary and secondary schools must ensure physical education teachers are treated "the same as their colleagues in subjects such as Chinese ... or nearsightedness and obesity rates.