Policies & Regulations
•  China Sets New Guidelines for Nutrition Improvement

Major Event
•  Flu Epidemic May Hit Australiain Mid-1998
•  Japan Continues to Focus on Biotechnology
•  China to Boost Pharmaceutical Industry
•  China Focuses on Immunization Programs for Children

Feature Article
•  Biotechnology Research Institute

Research News
•  Water-Cleansing Bacteria in Australian Gold Mines
•  Japan to Boost Funds in Endocrine Disrupter Research
•  Raloxifene
•  Clinical Trial of ¡®Yun Zhi' Capsules Shows Promising Results
•  New Gene Therapy for Insulin-Dependent Diabetes

Chinese Medicine
•  Qing Hua Develops New Thrombosis Drug
•  ¡®Sheng Mai San' is Popular in China
•  Uses of ¡®Duzhong' in TCM

Company News
•  Dupont Divests Conoco to Focus on Life Sciences
•  National Foods Makes bid to Take Over Pauls
•  HK Drug Firm Reports 16.1% Profit Drop
•  FDA Approves Surgical Glue
•  Novartis to Build Research Center for Disease Genes

General Information & Statistics
•  Restaurant Revenues in Japan Dipin 1997
•  NSW Pain Sufferers Wait Year forTreatment
•  PWO Says "No" to Palm Oil Imports
•  Internet Commerce Gains Popularity

News In Brief
•  China Launches Ecological Improvement Project
•  China Hopes to Get International Recognition for Human Genome Project
•  DOW Wants to Purchase the Rest of Mycogen
•  India's Wheat Bumper Harvest
•  Global Coffee Production Down

Patents
•  Chinese Patents

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