China Paring Down Essential Medicines List In Sweeping Health System Reforms

[Editor's note: This is part three in a new series on China's wide-ranging plans to reform the country's health system, including its hospitals, insurance schemes, and access to medicines. Part one in the series appeared in PharmAsia News Oct. 30, 2008, and part two appeared Nov. 13, 2008.]

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