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China censorship on Hugo awards

The 2023 World Science Fiction Convention was held in China, and it is clear that China imposed censorship on the Hugo awards. The WSFS should either separate the Hugo awards from the Worldcon when the Worldcon is held in a country that imposes political censorship, or make a rule to exclude those countries from holding • Read More »


Price negotiation and pricing of anticancer drugs in China: An observational study

by Jing Zhou, Tianjiao Lan, Hao Lu, Jay Pan Background While China has implemented reimbursement-linked drug price negotiation annually since 2017, emphasizing value-based pricing to achieve a value-based strategic purchase of medical insurance, whether drug prices became better aligned with clinical value after price negotiation has not been sufficiently established. This study aimed to assess • Read More »


Use of suboptimal control arms in randomized clinical trials of investigational cancer drugs in China, 2016–2021: An observational study

by Yichen Zhang, Dingyi Chen, Siyuan Cheng, Zhizhou Liang, Lu Yang, Qian Li, Lin Bai, Huangqianyu Li, Wei Liu, Luwen Shi, Xiaodong Guan Background The use of suboptimal controls in randomized trials of new cancer drugs can produce potentially unreliable clinical efficacy results over the current standard of care and expose patients to substandard therapy. • Read More »