Patrick Malone & Associates (LexBlog China)

Zantac warnings offered early hint of big problems with Big Pharma practices
Big Pharma’s slavish devotion to maximizing profits and “enhancing shareholder value” has led industry executives to shove the manufacture of their products to far-flung shores. The dubious consequences of these moves have become clear not only with common, over-the-counter medications but also — with potentially tragic results — with drugs needed in the war on...
As virus spreads, concerns surge about testing, hospitals, and nursing homes
The coronavirus outbreak spreading across the globe may be providing Americans with an unhappy view of the dirty downsides of the too-often dysfunctional U.S. health care system as it grapples with spiking Covid-19 infections. Congress has appropriated more than $8 billion, so the federal government can provide the nation the support it needs in battling...
Covid-19 shifts from health menace to a political and economic nightmare, too.
The viral outbreak that exploded out of central China suddenly has captured the rapt attention of Wall Street, the White House, and Americans from coast to coast. The rising pitch and politicization of the important conversation about Covid-19 — a respiratory virus that already has posed a growing global health threat — can only be...
Fight against virus focuses on global clusters
U.S. public health officials have gotten off to a rocky launch with their plans for more routine testing in at least five cities for Covid-19, the respiratory virus that has sickened tens of thousands and killed thousands, mostly in central China around the city of Wuhan. The American screenings signal how authorities around the globe...
Battle may be in new phase against the virus now named Covid19
The spreading virus that has sickened tens of thousands and killed thousands — mostly in central China in Hubei province and its big capital city, Wuhan — now has a name: Covid19. Public health officials hope that this moniker, along with new images of the virus, will make talking about this disease easier and reduce...
As coronavirus pummels China, concern rises about U.S. health care supplies
The toll of the coronavirus outbreak in China keeps worsening, with the infections exceeding tens of thousands and the deaths spiking toward 1,000, also claiming the first American and Japanese lives of people in the disease epicenter of Wuhan. The illness’ most significant harms continue to afflict China, particularly its central province of Hubei and...
As coronavirus spreads, aggressive safeguards — not panic — should, too
A viral outbreak in central China — centered in its province of Hubei and its largest city of Wuhan — officially has burgeoned into a global health emergency. The United States also has reacted to the pneumonia-like infection with its toughest warnings about travel to China and restrictions on Americans returning from it, as well...
As coronavirus spreads, aggressive safeguards — not panic — should, too
A viral outbreak in central China — centered in its province of Hubei and its largest city of Wuhan — officially has burgeoned into a global health emergency. The United States also has reacted to the pneumonia-like infection with its toughest warnings about travel to China and restrictions on Americans returning from it, as well...
A cause for global concern: an exploding viral outbreak in central China
The Year of the Rat has dawned in Asia in most inauspicious fashion, with public health officials grappling with an exploding viral outbreak centered in China. Tens of millions of Chinese have been locked down in what officials are saying may be one of the largest health quarantines of its kinds, occurring during Asia’s major...

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