Before 2013, there were hundreds of clinical trials done in India that resulted in faulty data, lawsuits, and significant problems. From 2013 to 2019, the number of clinical trials in India dropped significantly. However, in 2019, India implemented New Drug and Clinical... Read More
Currently, while digital health is very prevalent in the West, it is still at an infant stage in Japan. However, this is changing now. In 2020, a startup in Japan called Cure Up received regulatory approval for its nicotine addiction treatment. Also,... Read More
Two weeks ago, India’s Union Cabinet, the top decision-making body in India, authorized a new medical device policy to increase its domestic device production. Currently, India only makes about 1% of the world’s medical devices and this new policy aims to increase... Read More
So many Western drug companies source drug products, drug substances, excipients, and drug packaging from China. Many have speculated given the tensions between the world’s two major superpowers – the US and China – this may be a dangerous situation. The COVID... Read More
Up until 10 years ago, very few phase 1 studies were done in Asia. With limited drug R&D capabilities, new drugs mostly came from the US and EU. According to a recent report by Novotech, the last ten years have seen a... Read More
While China’s medical device market is still growing in double digits, several factors have made it harder for foreign companies to succeed there. China wants to make more of its own devices and export them to the rest of the world. The... Read More
While telemedicine is now common in the West, it is also now growing in Asia. Some Asian countries recently outlined new telemedicine regulations. For example, Taiwan’s MOH recently announced draft amendments to their initial telemedicine regulation of 2018. Originally, telemedicine was to... Read More
While still behind the US and EU CDx markets to date, over the next 5 years, more and more CDx’s will be registered and used for precision medicine in Asia. Drug companies doing clinical trials and launching new drugs in Asia will... Read More
In late 2022, the Korean Pharma Association did an evaluation of over 200 drugs that were approved in Korea between 2011 – 2022. Western countries and Japan have been able to reduce the review times for new drug approvals, but during this... Read More