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27-Nov-17 To ensure transparency and accountability in the medical tourism sector, Maharashtra plans to launch a portal that will serve as a single window for information. The website will provide foreign patients information on treatment programmes, cost and success rates. [image: ET Healthworld]
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26-Nov-17 Shanghai medical device maker MicroPort Scientific will pay USD190 mn to acquire the cardiac rhythm management business of the UK's LivaNova, expanding the two companies' ongoing partnership to bring a range of cardiac rhythm devices to China. [image: LivaNova; MicroPort]
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15-Nov-17 The Russian Medical Tourism Association says 2017 will see 20,000 medical tourists in Russia and 60% of all general medical services for foreigners will be in Moscow. The main source for medical tourism is from Southeast Asia. [image: IMJT]
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13-Nov-17 India's pharma pricing authority has written to stent makers for their views on pricing, indicating a rethink, nine months after its order capping cardiovascular stent prices prompted companies to withdraw products. [image: NYT]
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30-Oct-17 Columbia Asia has expanded its footprint in India by commissioning its twelfth facility in Bengaluru. This will be Columbia Asia's biggest hospital in the country, with 206 beds. [image: Live Chennai]
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