The News Review:

- Asia Pacific’s Finest Healthcare Players Recognised – 21 Companies…
- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
- WADA seminar calls for doping awareness
- Quintiles may snatch rival’s target
- Largest Single Health Care Investment In History f South Side…
- Survivor of ‘elephant man’ drug trial has a new reason to live
- Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA

Asia Pacific’s Finest Healthcare Players Recognised – 21 Companies…
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Jun 15, 2008
Parkway Health illustrated that it was on par with these global trendsetters with 2 awards under its wings. The Singapore-based private healthcare service provider which has over 15 operations around Asia received the 2008 South East Asia Private Hospital Group Market Penetration Award and the 2008 South East Asia Private Hospital Group Market Leadership Award in the South East Asia Hospital category. In the CR category Excel PharmaStudies clinched two titles namely the 2008 Clinical Research rganization of the Year and the 2008 Asia Pacific Asian Clinical Services Provider of the Year while Quintiles bagged the coveted Asia Pacific Multinational Clinical Services Provider of the Year Award for the second year in a row. This year a category on the Physician’s Choice Awards has been introduced in the excellence in healthcare program. With an aim to illustrate the standing of healthcare organisations in the eyes of the very community they service the 2008 Physicians Choice Awards’ recipients are selected by the physicians themselves based on their experience with these organisations. Launched in Malaysia this year over 70 physicians responded to the questionnaire designed by Frost & Sullivan for the survey. Under this category a total of four Awards were given of which Merck Sharpe & Dome claimed two Awards namely 2008 Malaysian Physician’s Choice Award for Customer Service Leadership and the 2008 Malaysian Physician’s Choice Award for Customer Value Leadership.

Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – Jun 14, 2008
Cooper said the only way to ensure that the link between lower HIV rates and circumcision was not because of cultural factors was to carry out random trials the results of which will be presented at the Sydney conference. He said three trials were conducted in South Africa Kenya and Uganda each involving more than 2000 heterosexual men half of whom were circumcised. “The reduction in HIV infection was about 60 percent so clearly it works” said Cooper who is also the director of Australia’s National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Cooper said the studies showed circumcision could be a powerful tool in helping curb HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa where infection rates in some countries are up to 40 percent of the adult population. He said however that any introduction of widespread male circumcision in developing countries needed to be carried out with an education campaign that reinforced a safe sex message.

WADA seminar calls for doping awareness
Pakistan Dawn – Jun 14, 2008
com – D NT MDIFY –>. WADA also called for developing appropriate sanction mechanisms for illegal or unethical application of gene transfer in sport following a two-day meeting in Saint Petersburg Russia according to a dispatch made available here. The meeting was the third of its kind sponsored by WADA following in the line of those held in 2002 in New York and in 2005 in Stockholm. The Saint Petersburg symposium attracted more than 60 participants from 16 countries and included experts in gene transfer scientists from the field of anti-doping representatives from sports and public authorities and ethicists. “Most experts do not think that gene transfer is being misused by athletes yet.

Quintiles may snatch rival’s target
News & bserver – Jun 14, 2008
comp –> Founded in 1993 by two former pharmaceutical employees ClinPhone makes software that helps select people for drug tests and collects the data from the tests. ClinPhone says its technology makes clinical trials less expensive and reduces errors. “The operations of ClinPhone are a strategic fit with Quintiles’ clinical research capabilities” Quintiles’ statement read. Quintiles also confirmed in the statement that discussions with ClinPhone’s board of directors are ongoing. The largest contract drug researcher by revenue Quintiles generated more than $2 billion in revenue last year. The company has been privately held since a $1. 75 billion buyout five years ago.

Largest Single Health Care Investment In History f South Side…
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Jun 14, 2008
The Medical Center board approved the project on May 28. The futuristic $700 million 10-story 1. 2 million-square-foot New Hospital Pavilion designed by renowned architect Rafael Viñoly provides a high-technology facility that combines the optimal setting for patient care and collaborative clinical research with the flexibility to adapt to and drive forward rapid changes sweeping through medicine. The Pavilion will provide a new home for the University of Chicago Medical Center’s most distinguished clinical programs those that provide complex specialty care with a focus on cancer gastrointestinal disease neuroscience advanced surgery and high-technology medical imaging. “The New Hospital Pavilion is a substantial investment that represents our commitment to biomedicine and to the delivery of complex clinical health care informed by the research of our faculty” said Robert J. Zimmer President of the University of Chicago. “The New Hospital Pavilion is more than a building” said Medical Center CE James L.

Survivor of ‘elephant man’ drug trial has a new reason to live
Daily Mail – Jun 14, 2008
Cradling his new daughter in his arms with a look of helpless devotion David – who is the first of the trial victims to have a child – says: ‘I just can’t believe she’s here after all we’ve been through. ‘It’s a real blessing. She is just such a character already. ‘We had always wanted children.

Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA
Bernama – Jun 14, 2008
ther winners in the category were Merck Sharpe & Dome which claimed two awards namely the “2008 Malaysian Physicians Choice Award for Customer Service Leadership” and “2008 Malaysian Physicians Choice Award for Customer Value Leadership”. Another winner was KPJ Healthcare Bhd the healthcare arm of Johor Corporation and a leader in Malaysia’s health services industry which received the “Southeast Asia Private Hospital Group Growth Strategy Leadership Award”. The Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Healthcare Awards held for the third consecutive year offered 38 titles in the field of medical devices clinical research organisations healthcare technologies pharmaceuticals and healthcare services. The awards were presented at a ceremony here Friday night. Senior vice-president for the healthcare practice at Frost & Sullivan Reenita Das said Asia Pacific which was one of the fastest growing healthcare markets globally currently contributed close to 18 percent of the global revenues and it was projected the figure would reach 25 percent in 2010. “Through the awards we aim to recognise companies who have demonstrated excellence in products service and technology to remain competitive in the market and emerge as market leaders” she said. ver 35 prominent companies across the healthcare industry operating in different countries in the region were shortlisted and appraised for their performance in financial year 2007.