Six million donkeys slaughtered for Chinese medicine: charity
- 26-Jun-2025
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Almost six million donkeys are slaughtered annually for Chinese medicine, with severe knock-on effects for African villagers who rely on the animals, a UK-based charity said on Thursday. It is driven by an increase in China’s production of ejiao — a product marketed as a health supplement that uses collagen from donkey […]
Pakistan to announce successful clinical trial of Covid-19 medicine
- 14-Jan-2022
KARACHI: The public announcement of the first-ever successful clinical trial of a medicine for Covid-19 patients in Pakistan will be made on Monday. Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research at Karachi University in collaboration with The Indus Hospital, Karachi completed clinical trial of a traditional Chinese medicine , ‘Jinhua Qinggan Granules’ also […]
Traditional Chinese medicine firm members arrested after death of young cancer patient
- 07-Jan-2019
SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities have arrested the founder and more than a dozen others at a local traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) firm after the death of a young girl with cancer was linked to the company and sparked anger online. Authorities in the Chinese port city of Tianjin had said in December that they were investigating […]