Clinical trials in China are getting attention at an international oncology gathering in Chicago. China’s surging biotechnology industry is fueling alarm that U.S. dominance in the field is waning.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago last year. One of the conference’s coveted headliners this year will be a presentation of a clinical trial conducted only in China.
The disaster at the mill in Longview, Wash., which took at least eight lives, was greeted with sadness but not surprise by a community that knew cutbacks and other pressures had raised risks.