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New medical drugs

New medical drugs
Latest news and updates on medical drug research and breakthroughs.
last updated:
22 November, 2024
A robot uses AI to analyse people’s health and give advice on treatment in this photo illustration concept. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong can help turn the Greater Bay Area into a biomedical hub, experts say

To advance innovation, however, the GBA needs to better integrate its medical data, panellists say.

Biomedicine: Companies

CR Pharma, NAMI join forces to fight Alzheimer’s with Pfizer cancer drug

Medicine

Novel drug awaits Hong Kong diabetics suffering from debilitating eye disease

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Health & Fitness

China expands health insurance coverage with 91 new drugs, innovative treatments

The health authority shows its support for novel drugs, while driving tough bargains with pharmaceutical firms on prices.

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China has added dozens of new drugs to its medical insurance reimbursement list. Photo: Getty Images
Biomedicine: Companies

Germany’s BioNTech buys Biotheus in US$800 million push into cancer drugs

BioNTech says deal will support its push into the development of cancer drugs using its proven mRNA technology.

Wellness

New weight-loss drugs coming to Hong Kong, and what they can do

Semaglutide and tirzepatide helped Texas woman Kathryn Dean lose 18kg and keep the weight off, and she is no longer diagnosed as prediabetic.

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Wellness

The scientists behind the development of obesity drugs like Ozempic

Developed to treat diabetes, drugs like Ozempic now help fight obesity. Scientists newly honoured for working on them recall their findings.

A man injects Ozempic. Two scientists newly honoured with the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research recall their findings that paved the way for the development of what are seen as weight-loss wonder drugs. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

How Hong Kong researchers aim to turn bugs into drugs to treat autism, dementia

Microbiota I-Centre researchers have isolated 200 to 300 types of bacteria with therapeutic potential and hope one day to develop them into medications.

Wellness

Weight-loss drugs help with heart attack, stroke, fertility, kidneys

Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs can lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney and liver disease, and even increase fertility.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

How will coming medicine approval regime help Hongkongers? New, better drugs

Authorities plan to set up Hong Kong Centre for Medical Products Regulation in 2026-27, tasking it with conducting primary drug approvals.

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Science

Chinese and US scientists create AI model to help develop new drugs

ActFound performed better in tests than competing models and could offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods.

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Researchers hope AI can cut the time and cost needed to develop new drugs. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Chinese scientists’ quantum computing pipeline could change drug design

Researchers say quantum computing could ‘revolutionise’ pharmaceuticals as they reveal new drug design approach.

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Wellness

Patients stop taking ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, study finds

Joe Biden says they’re too expensive, and price may be one reason most patients given ‘miracle’ diabetes drugs such as Ozempic and Zepbound for weight loss stop taking them within 2 years, according to US data.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Could Hong Kong patients benefit from a streamlined drug approval process?

Approval process is slowed down by current requirements, say experts calling for a change of rules.

Streamlining Hong Kong’s drug approval process could help patients get new medications faster, experts have said. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

We need new ideas to beat cancer, top experts say. Here’s what they suggest

The future of cancer treatment and beating the disease should involve better identifying people at risk, smarter trials, earlier testing and driving forward new drugs, two cancer experts say.

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In the future, cancer detection will have the highest impact in the fight against the disease, while treatment will have the least, Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee says. Photo: Shutterstock
Cancer

The good news about cancer: new treatments point the way to eventual cures

While the ‘war on cancer’ is far from won, survival rates are at an all-time high, thanks to new therapies, drugs and vaccines. They are pointing the way to potentially revolutionary advances in treatment - and cures.

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