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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
ClouDr’s medical AI platform enables remote consultations and prescriptions. Photo: Shutterstock
Biomedicine: Industry Trends

ClouDr shares rise on DeepSeek integration with medical AI platform

Chinese company says DeepSeek’s AI model will enhance data mining in its platform, delivering efficiency to hospitals and pharmacies.

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Greater Bay Area

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

Oculis’ OCS-01 eye drops, currently in phase 3 trials for diabetic macular edema, can be an alternative to injection, CEO says.

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Riad Sherif, CEO of Oculis Holding, says the high prevalence of diabetic macular edema in Hong Kong is partly due to an ageing population. Photo: May Tse
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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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.

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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.

Drugs semaglutide and tirzepatide, developed to fight diabetes but with powerful weight-loss effects, were key to property agent Kathryn Dean (above) achieving long-term weight loss. Photo: Instagram/@kathryndeanrealtor
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.

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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Many of the new weight-loss drugs can by extension alleviate other health conditions. Photo: Shutterstock
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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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.

Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus weight-loss drugs. A recent US study found most patients taking GLP-1 medications like these quit within 2 years. This is believed to be down to a mixture of their high cost and side-effects. Photo: Shutterstock
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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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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