By Gina Kolata An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted on Thursday against recommending agency approval of a lung cancer drug that was tested only in China and …
Monthly Archives For February 2022
US, China lock horns over Ukraine at UN
“This is exactly what the Russians are doing – they are threatening the integrity of a border, so for China to deliver that message would be extraordinarily important,” she added. China, the United …
FDA committee votes against Eli Lilly cancer treatment over concerns trials conducted only in China
A Food and Drug Administration committee on Thursday recommended against full approval of a lung cancer treatment developed by Innovent Biologics and Eli Lilly over concerns the clinical trial was …
Olympians Eileen Gu and Zhu Yi are unfairly caught in the middle of the US and China’s geopolitical sniping
Eileen Gu and Zhu Yi were both born in the US, but chose to compete for China at Beijing 2022. The Winter Olympics come as relations between the US and China are severely stretched. Gu…
Hong Kong hotels may house mild Covid-19 cases as hospitals fill up
Hospitals, which often hit capacity in the winter even before Covid-19 emerged, are struggling as the city continues … Officials are drawing up hotel lists where patients could be placed, the South …
Sen. Braun: China Is ‘Questionable Business Partner,’ Partly ‘Why Our Supply Chain Is In Rough Shape’
“I think largely this is a function of what China is going to end up contending with because they’re not a handshake business partner,” he said. “They’re not trustworthy, and they do things with their…
Commentary: China welcomes the world in Winter Olympics but its economy is more isolated from West
China’s great rise over the past several decades has been the great economic success of our times, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and giving the global economy wheels in the …
After hopeful early signs, study of popular heartburn drug shows mixed results against Covid-19
The interest in famotidine to treat Covid-19 has roots in China, according to Dr. Kevin Tracey, a co-author of the Gut study. In April 2020, Tracey told CNN that physicians there had observed that …
Debt Fears Swirl Around Logan as China Property Woes Deepen
(Bloomberg) –Concerns over the financial health of Logan Group Co. have shaken investor confidence in what was seen as one of China’s stronger developers, deepening the turmoil faced by the …
Politics Keep Oozing Into Olympic Limelight in China
Chinese relations with Western countries such as the United States were closer that year than now, while COVID-19 was more than a decade away from making its first appearance — in China. Chinese …
A possible doping controversy hovers over the Beijing Olympics, but officials aren’t saying much
BEIJING — A controversy over a possible positive test for a banned substance threatened to envelope the figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics, even as officials refused to answer …
China not living up to committments it pledged under Trump trade deal
It was only two years ago that former President Trump struck a mega trade deal with China, containing commitments by the Chinese to purchase vast sums of American exports. So how’s it going? Not great…
Canada seeks to join EU challenge against China at WTO
(Reuters) – Canada will seek to join the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to be included in consultations as part of the European Union’s dispute with China at the World Trade …
