The 2023 Asia Health and Life Sciences Innovation and Cooperation Summit Delivered ...

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The World Economic Forum and the SingHealth Global Health Institute have teamed up to create a "life sciences innovation ecosystem" in Asia, with the goal of helping the region's health care systems "meet patient needs through clinical and life-science innovations," per a press release.

But in the world of pharmaceuticals, there's a lot of red tape, and a lot of it is in Asia.

Here's a look at some of that, as reported by Quartz and the New York Times:

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