9/29/2011 - China's traditions of health and preventive medicine evolved over the long arc of history before food was processed, before red meats, fats and sugars were in abundant supply, and before motorized transport. Now, China's professionals are coping with heart disease, diabetes, obesity - and a shockingly short life expectancy. Two health care entrepreneurs have developed clinics that bring western preventive health care and health education as well as treatment to China.  Dr. Dwight Clark, a cardiac surgeon determined to help Chinese avoid an early death, has started China Heart.
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4/19/2011 - Michael Zakkour is a principal with Technomic Asia, a Tompkins International company. Technomic Asia focuses on healthcare service and service multinational and sme china strategy. He coined the term "Weath Through Health" after studying China's 12th Five Year Plan, which emphasizes physical, environmental, and economic health of the country. When the people and the environment are healthy and safe, economic growth will follow. Read More...

10/14/2010 - Based in China as a market analyst for more than a decade, Matthew Crabbe and his business, Access Asia, are thriving.  With China's huge and diverse market are hundreds of categories for research.  Crabbe focuses on several, including shopping, convenient stores, cosmetics, and food, the last of which led to his latest book: "Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation."   Read More...

12/14/2009 -  Helen Yan, the Group Communications Director for Sanofi-Aventis in China, is working in China to increase research and development for new drugs and helping the company grow and adapt for the future.  From her point of view, China's health care reform will potentially play an interesting role in the near future. Read More...