To ensure the quality and safety of medical services in primary healthcare institutions, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) and other relevant authorities issued a notice on 1 April 2026, outlining a three-year nationwide action.

Microplate-based automatic blood grouping analyzer Metis of Aikang MedTech Co., Ltd. (henceforth referred to as Aikang) received approval for marketing in 2015; and its MGT-based automatic blood grouping analyzer Aigel received approval for marketing in 2016.

Cure Genetics, a Chinese biotech startup that focuses on the treatment of cancers and genetic diseases, has secured $60 million in a Series B round of financing led by China-focused private equity (PE) firm Advantech Capital

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of defrauding investors after a months-long landmark trial in California.

The agency is expanding the use of a single booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to children ages 12–15 and is shortening the time between primary vaccination and booster to at least five months.

Single-cell DNA sequencing firm Mission Bio said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with China's SequMed to collaborate on services and the development of clinical applications.

On December 29, Shanghai Weihe Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd. was established with a registered capital of 1 million yuan. Equity penetration information shows that the company is indirectly wholly-owned by ByteDance.

Scientists at Scripps Research, University of Chicago and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a new Achilles’ heel of influenza virus, making progress in the quest for a universal flu vaccine.

Siemens Healthineers announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test,1, 2, 3 providing nationwide access to a new at-home or over-the-counter self-test as COVID-19 testing needs.

Omnicell, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMCL), a leading provider of medication management solutions and adherence tools for health systems and pharmacies, has completed the previously announced acquisition of ReCept Holdings, Inc.

The research describes a new and fast computational approach to obtain precisely dated evolutionary trees, known as ‘timetrees’.

Novo Nordisk today announced that the acquisition of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Dicerna; Nasdaq: DRNA), announced on 18 November 2021, has been completed.