On January 21, Mark Cuban, a billionaire and co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs, proposed the idea of creating memecoin to finance the repayment of U.S. national debt. On January 21, Cuban said that if memecoin were "mainstream", he might issue an official memecoin similar to that of US President Donald Trump. The terms and timeline of the token would be the same as Trump's, he said, but all proceeds would be used to pay off US Treasury bonds.
In response to the possible quality risks of some centrally purchased drugs, the National Medical Insurance Administration took the lead in the investigation.
On January 20, the National Medical Insurance Bureau said today (20th) that during the recent "two sessions" in Shanghai, some members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and medical experts reported that some collectively purchased drugs may have quality risks and other issues, and the National Medical Insurance Bureau attaches great importance to them. In order to effectively accept democratic supervision, widely listen to the voices of the clinical front line, give full ...
According to Punchbowl, US President-elect Donald Trump will list "drug cartels" as "foreign terrorist organizations."
On January 4th, the DeSci project Big Pharmai (DRUGS) announced the upcoming launch of a new biological proxy framework, BADDIE.
Important news 1. The regular session of the State Council: Deploy measures to deepen the regulatory reform of pharmaceutical medical apparatus and promote the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry. 2. The regular session of the State Council: It is necessary to give full play to the role of the "gatekeeper" of the capital markets of intermediaries to prevent the improper interests of intermediaries and issuers from being tied up. 3. The reduction of behaviors such as "speculat...
Trump: Will pardon defendants of the "January 6 riots on Capitol Hill" on his first day in office. Will not restrict the supply of abortion pills. Will definitely consider withdrawing from NATO. There are no plans now to ask Powell to resign as Fed chairperson.
On November 16th, the 2024 China Pharmaceutical Industry Development Conference and the Shanghai International Biomedical Industry Week were held in Shanghai on November 16th. According to the data released by the conference, since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the quantity and quality of domestic innovative drugs in our country have risen simultaneously, and a total of 113 domestic innovative drugs have been approved for listing, which is 2.8 times the number of new drugs approved in the "13th Fiv...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has issued a report calling on countries in South East Asia to criminalize the unlicensed operation of money services businesses or virtual asset service providers (VASPs). The report notes that some VASPs, including those linked to known criminals, are facilitating transactions for fraudulent organizations and high-risk gambling websites. UNODC warns that scammers are diversifying their modus operandi and using emerging technologies such as a...
According to people familiar with the matter, hackers who carried out a cyber attack on drug distributor Cencora received a $75 million ransom payment in three installments in bitcoin in March this year, the largest known cyber extortion payment to date. The company showed the charges incurred by the cyber security incident in its quarterly report in July, saying that the $31.40 million of other charges were mostly incurred due to the cyber security incident of the data breach. It is not clear w...
On September 12, the State Food and Drug Administration today announced the third batch of drug instructions for senior-friendly and barrier-free reform pilot list. According to the "Announcement of the State Food and Drug Administration on Issuing the Pilot Work Plan for Drug Instructions for Senior-friendly and Barrier-free Reform" (No. 142 of 2023), the provincial drug regulatory authorities and the Drug Evaluation Center of the State Food and Drug Administration submitted the list of drug ma...
On August 8, CoinDesk reported that the police in Sao Paulo, Brazil, dismantled a money laundering scheme managed by the drug gang "First Capital Command" (PCC, First Capital Command), which operated through a company that acted as a cryptocurrency exchange. According to CNN, the company traded for about 500 million reais (89 million dollars). During the raid, the police seized 55 million reais (8.90 million...