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Globalized Commerce Might Prove Resilient to the Pandemic
Companies might reshore some production of medical equipment for emergencies, but other international supply chains will be harder to break.
WSJ News Exclusive | China’s Export Restrictions Strand Medical Goods U.S. Needs to Fight Coronavirus, State Department Says
Orders of face masks, test kits and other urgently needed medical equipment are sitting in warehouses, unable to receive official clearances.
China Tightens Customs Checks for Medical Equipment Exports
China will subject ventilators, surgical masks and other medical equipment to more stringent customs checks before exporting them, after some European countries complained about their quality.
‘We’re Hardly Heroic’
Dr. Li, a heart specialist at Wuhan No. 4 Hospital, spent the third week of March preparing for the reopening of the hospital’s general clinics, which closed on January 22, when No. 4 became a key
Companies Retool Operations to Assist in Coronavirus Fight
As the pandemic puts nations on wartime footing, distillers concoct hand sanitizer, a car maker offers to assemble ventilators, a jeans factory switches to face masks. “It’s all hands to the pumps.”
Opinion | Trump’s Tariffs Leave the U.S. Short on Vital Medical Supplies
From gloves to respirators, protectionism is raising costs for the providers fighting the coronavirus.
WSJ News Exclusive | Regeneron, Sanofi to Test Arthritis Drug as Coronavirus Treatment
Drugmakers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Sanofi SA are racing to launch clinical trials exploring whether their arthritis drug could treat symptoms of novel coronavirus infections.
If Coronavirus-Stricken China Can’t Export Medicine, the World Is in Trouble
Much of the country is idle thanks to the coronavirus epidemic. That means many of the ingredients in your medicine cabinet aren’t being produced.
Sick, but Not Coronavirus? China’s Other Patients Struggle to Get Care
As China doubles down on its efforts to control the coronavirus epidemic, patients with other conditions that require urgent medical attention have emerged as particularly vulnerable, facing difficulties in receiving treatment and securing drugs.
Gilead’s Coronavirus Drug Trial Slowed by Lack of Eligible Recruits
Clinical trials in Wuhan to test Gilead Sciences’s antiviral drug, a promising remedy for the coronavirus, are going more slowly than hoped for as the drugmaker struggles to recruit qualified patients.
JD’s healthcare unit takes second spot in new global unicorns at a $7b valuation
It follows Uber’s self-driving unit, valued at US$7.3 billion, in the list of 142 new unicorns that emerged worldwide last year.
Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China’s Major Corporate Hack
In the breach known as Cloud Hopper, cyberattackers allegedly working for China’s intelligence services broke into cloud companies, including CGI and IBM, to steal volumes of intellectual property and records from scores of companies.
WSJ News Exclusive | AstraZeneca to Raise $1 Billion to Invest in China Startups
AstraZeneca plans to raise up to $1 billion for a fund that would invest in China’s health-care startups, the latest drug giant to bet on the fast-growing pharmaceuticals market.
China Floats Cloud Concession to Foreign Tech Firms in U.S. Trade Talks
China is offering foreign technology firms better access to the country’s fast-growing cloud-computing market, according to people briefed on the matter, as Beijing fashions a compromise in a tech sector the U.S. wants opened as part of a trade deal.
American Firm, Citing Ethics Code, Won’t Sell Genetic Sequencers in Xinjiang
Thermo Fisher Scientific said it will no longer be selling or servicing genetic sequencers in China’s Xinjiang region, following mounting criticism of their use there for state surveillance of citizens.
Opinion | China Opens the Door to U.S. GMOs
The decision is a boon to farmers and a milestone for agronomic innovation.
Cut out of the Operating Room
In June 2015, doctors told 69-year-old Shuai Shuiqing she had stomach cancer and would need surgery. She left her home in the city of Chongzhou in Sichuan province and traveled 20 miles to visit
GenScript Shares Drop on Report Alleging Safety Violations by Unit Partnered With Johnson & Johnson
GenScript Biotech’s stock tumbled nearly 27% after a research report alleging safety violations by a subsidiary that has partnered with Johnson & Johnson.
How China Is Evolving From a Maker of Copycat Medicines Into a Producer of Complex Drugs
Johnson & Johnson was impressed enough by Nanjing Legend Biotechnology’s work on an experimental gene therapy that it paid $350 million for the global rights to the cancer treatment.
China’s Latest Consumer Scandal: Unsafe Vaccines
Premier Li Keqiang called for an investigation into “the entire process chain of all vaccine production and sales,” after a drug company allegedly sold more than 250,000 doses that failed to meet safety standards.
