11-Jan-17 American medical device contract manufacturer Paramit Corp announced the opening of its new facility located on mainland Penang in Malaysia. The site will be the region’s largest manufacturing facility for complex medical devices, realising sophisticated systems for genetic and molecular testing, robotic surgery and cancer treatment, and will also serve its current industrial products customer base. [image: The Star / Asri Abdul Ghani]

09-Dec-16 A HKD6.3 bn (USD812 mn) private hospital to be run by the Chinese University - envisioned as Hong Kong's first not-for-profit and self-financed teaching hospital - will offer 70% of its services in fixed packages to cater for the middle class, plus specialist quotas for Hospital Authority patients. The 619-bed hospital is to be commissioned in 2020. [image: The Standard]

14-Nov-16 J&J has entered into a collaboration with the Indo UK Institute of Health to deliver medical technology and surgical education in the field of orthopaedics, to the 11 IUIH 'medicities' being established in India. Meanwhile, Stryker announced a 20-year collaboration IUIH as a partner in the orthopaedic areas of hip, knee and trauma. [image: Indo UK Institute of Health / Somer Design]

11-Nov-16 Brooklyn-based Carlos Arnaiz Architects has announced plans for a hospital and trauma center in Baler, Philippines. As the first combined Hospital and Trauma Center in the country, the project will improve medical support in this remote area. With a daily patient capacity of 75 people, it will feature maternity wards, imaging, operating rooms, a chapel and a café. [image: CAZA Architects]

08-Nov-16 An MOU on corneal transplant cooperation and training between the National Eye Bank of Taiwan and SightLife has brought Taiwan a step closer to regional leadership in the field. Under the five-year pact, which makes Taiwan SightLife's the second partner in Asia, the US-based nonprofit will provide the latest corneal transplant training and assist NEBT in gaining international accreditation. [image: MOHW]