China executes ex-drug chief amid health scandals
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China's former drug and food safety watchdog chief was executed on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption and dereliction of duty amid a series of food and drug safety scandals, Xinhua news agency said.
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The case of China's former FDA leader highlights the issues facing the country's pharmaceutical industry.
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BEIJING -- China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
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Shanghai's top Communist Party leader has been sacked over a major corruption scandal, China's state press said, although analysts suggested it could be part of a power play by President Hu Jintao.
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BEIJING -- China's drug watchdog announced Saturday it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis in the latest move to hit the country's scandal-ridden drug industry.
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PRESS RELEASE - Washington, DC, Dec. 1, 2004 - Gao Yaojie, the Chinese doctor who revealed to the world that the Chinese government had covered up AIDS contamination of Chinese blood banks in 2000, told the
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Chinaâs recent crackdown on unsafe pharmaceuticals came too late for some victims, like Du Haipeng and Liu Sichen, who were treated with a contaminated drug.
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China is to review tens of thousands of drug licences as part of an investigation into a corruption scandal.
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Former head of food and drug watchdog executed for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash.
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China is investigating a state-owned trading company's role in tainted medicine that killed at least 94 people in Panama, an official said Monday, as the European Union urged Beijing to be more vigilant about product safety.
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China sentenced a former senior   provincial official to 11 years in jail for taking bribes,   state media reported on Tuesday, adding to the toll of cadres   punished in the Communist Party's anti-corruption drive.
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China has sent a notice to the World Health Organization defending the quality of its food exports, an agency spokeswoman said yesterday, and an official linked to the country's drug industry was sentenced to prison in a bribery case.
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Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of Chinaâs food and drug watchdog, had become a symbol of the countryâs wide-ranging problems on product safety.
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A batch of fake Chinese medicine claimed its 14th victim when a man died of kidney failure nearly two years after receiving a tainted injection, state media said.
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HANGZHOU, China -- In spring 2006, an essay appeared on the Internet detailing collusion between the Chinese government's food and drug watchdog agency and a pharmaceutical venture. It accused the country's highest-ranking regulator of accepting a lakeside house and hundreds of thousands of dollars...
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A corrupt senior Chinese official was denounced by his 11 mistresses after some of their husbands were sentenced to death for graft, state media said on Friday.
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BEIJING, Sept. 25 -- The Communist Party chief of Shanghai was fired Monday in the highest-level purge of a Chinese official in more than a decade. Analysts called the dismissal a move by President Hu Jintao to root out corruption and consolidate his own power.