Archive for February, 2009
February 27th, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Market News |
Shanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. noticed that in order to meet the company’s growing pharmaceutical distribution operations and medical needs of third-party logistics business, and further improve efficiency in the use of modern logistics, the company decided to invest 45 million yuan for a modern logistics center in Pudong District.
Shanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (known as Shaphar) is a leading publicly listed pharmaceutical company (Stock Code: 600849), with business covering manufacture, wholesale, retail, Imp.& Exp. and distributing logistics across healthcare. Shaphar is also the only one company who owns the membership of International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW) in China, with total assets of 6,737,000,000 Yuan and over 3200 employees working for human’s better life.
Shaphar has established 54 subordinate wholly-funded and holding companies, 6 joint or wholly-funded pharmaceutical factories, 1 overseas pharmaceutical factory and 2 offshore companies as well as over 1400 chain drug stores. Being important cooperator with world famous multinational pharmaceutical corporations, the company now manages over 6000 kinds of drugs and relevant products and maintains a close business relationship with more than 4000 domestic clients.
February 23rd, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Market News |
The International Opium Commission was a meeting convened in 1909 in Shanghai that represented one of the first steps toward international drug prohibition. Dr. Hamilton Wright and Episcopal Bishop Charles Henry Brent headed the U.S. delegation. According to Release, “The formal designation of the meeting as ‘commission’ reflects the fact that the United States had been unsuccessful in its attempts to convene a ‘conference’: this latter status would have conferred upon the meeting the power to draft regulations to which signatory states would be bound by international law. The Commission was only authorized to make recommendations.
The meeting united the attending nations behind the cause of opium prohibition, leading to the 1912 International Opium Convention.
China will commemorate the centenary of the first international meeting on drug prohibition in Shanghai, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu announced Thursday.
The government had prepared for the commemoration of the International Opium Commission, the first international anti-drug meeting convened in February 1909 in Shanghai, Jiang told a regular press conference.
The government would invite 16 government delegations and the United Nations office on drug and crime, as well as the representatives from International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said Jiang.
The event’s secretariat would release more details at a later date.
February 22nd, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Market News |
On Thursday, German pharmaceutical company Bayer released a news that it would invest 100 million euros (129 million U.S. dollars) within five years to set up a research and development (R&D) center here.
Bayer Schering Pharma AG, a division of Bayer HealthCare, will build the center, making China the third country after Germany and the United States to host a global R&D center for the company, it said in a statement.
The center is expected to help boost Bayer’s capabilities in global drug development, particularly to benefit Asian patients, it said.
China is the third-largest market worldwide for the Bayer group, where the company reported 43 percent of growth rate in 2007.
Bayer AG is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863. Today it is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is well-known for its original brand of aspirin. Bayer is the third largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
February 19th, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Tips |
30 minutes before and after taking medicine, you’d better not to eat anything, especially fruits and vegetables.
Experts ask us should drink much water after taking medicine, to promote the absorption of drugs. Vegetables and fruits contain a number of compounds and biological enzyme, these substances and drugs may react chemically, so that changes the drug effects.
Hypolipidemic, antibiotics, sleeping pills, caffeine, anti-allergy, etc., may be associated with certain substances in fruits and vegetables, so that drug failure, and even produced a strong drug toxicity.
February 19th, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Tips |
There are a lot of drugs (tablets) will take change in color after a long time. Some change from white to yellow or brown, but also becomes light brown.
These phenomena indicate that drugs have taken place in some kind of chemical changes. These changes may be due to the air of oxygen, sunlight exposure and other causes so that drug discoloration metamorphism, thus losing efficacy, even take place side effects.
February 18th, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Research |
Antipyretic analgesic drugs
These drugs such as aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, indomethacin, phenylbutazone poisoning can cause liver damage, etc. If the daily use of aspirin or more than 5 grams or use of acetaminophen more than 2 grams, they are easy to cause acute liver injury.
Antibiotics
These drugs such as macrolide drugs, sulfonamides, chloramphenicol, oxacillin, nystatin, chlorine lincomycin, tetracycline, ketoconazole, erythromycin and other tasteless can cause obvious liver damage. The abuse of oxacillin can cause toxic hepatitis in five days.
Gastrointestinal drugs
These drugs such as cimetidine, ranitidine and L-asparaginase can cause poisoning liver damage.
Cardiovascular drugs
These drugs such as methyldopa, quinidine, amiodarone, fenofibrate, lovastatin, etc. can cause liver damage. Among them, methyl dopa medication can damage the liver cells and ductular. A small number of patients in the use of methyl dopa jaundice and transaminase may be increased in 1 ~ 3 weeks, and may even happen granuloma-like hyperplasia of the liver, cirrhosis and liver necrosis.
Hypoglycemic agents
These drugs such as Delta, Culture and Sport, glybenclamide, Glurenorm etc may cause liver damage.
Sex hormones and contraceptive drugs
These drugs such as testosterone, male hormone, megestrol acetate, ethinyl estradiol, norethindrone and oral contraceptives can cause jaundice and other symptoms of liver damage.
Antineoplastic agents
These drugs such as azathioprine, methotrexate, 5 – fluorouracil, 6 – mercaptopurine, mitomycin, cyclophosphamide, etc. may cause liver damage. Among them, the emergence of drug azathioprine use the probability of jaundice could reach 20% ~ 40%; methotrexate can happen cirrhosis drug users; and mitomycin drug users can occur in severe liver damage.
Antipsychotic drugs
These drugs such as chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine may cause liver damage. 1% ~ 4% of the patients in the use of chlorpromazine will happen intrahepatic cholestasis in the 1 ~ 4 weeks, and some even will happen liver failure and death.
Antiepileptic drugs
These drugs such as phenytoin and sodium valproate can cause liver damage and so on.
Anti-tuberculosis drugs
These drugs such as isoniazid and rifampicin equality can cause liver damage. Isoniazid allergy drug in the use of 1 ~ 2 months later there will be severe hepatitis, liver necrosis and may even happen. If the isoniazid and rifampin combined use, it will greatly increase the liver toxicity of such drugs.
February 16th, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Market News |
BEIJING, Feb. 16 China has banned actors and celebrities from hosting radio and TV medical programs after some touted drugs while impersonating doctors and patients.
In a story published on Feb. 4, The Beijing Times exposed a middle-aged actor who imitated four experts under different names on TV while selling drugs.
The article also mentioned an actress who mimicked patients suffering from lung, liver, kidney and heart problems. She claimed that her diseases were cured after taking drugs mentioned in all the advertisements.
The article also mentioned an actress who mimicked patients suffering from lung, liver, kidney and heart problems. She claimed that her diseases were cured after taking drugs mentioned in all the advertisements.
The government said impersonating experts or patients was misleading, so new rules were set to prohibit the behavior, according to the Ministry of Health.
The circular, which was jointly issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the State Administration For Industry and Commerce, the Health Ministry, the State Food and Drug Administration and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reiterated other rules for releasing medical and drug advertisements on radio and TV media.
Those advertisements which use experts and patients’ images to prove the effects of drugs or medical products should not be broadcast, according to the circular.
Those which contain the content of cure rates, effective rates and hotline interaction between doctors and patients should not be broadcast. Information service programs produced by pharmaceutical companies or medical organizations should not be broadcast, the circular said.
Radio and TV broadcasters were asked to check for those kinds of programs and advertisements and immediately stop broadcasting them. If they did not act swiftly enough, the heads of relevant radio and TV stations would be punished and their names exposed to the public.
February 10th, 2009 -- Posted in Drug Market News |
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