31-May-17 The Indian medical device industry is having to manage the complexities of low-priced Chinese imports flooding the market and issues of perceived quality from Indian providers in tenders for procurement of medical devices and electronics. [image: ET Healthworld]

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31-May-17 Revenues of Apollo Hospitals crossed the USD1 bn mark in 2016-17 jumping 17% year-on-year. Profit after tax, however, declined 7.2%. The company surpassed a milestone of 10,000 beds in the year. [image: ET Healthworld]

26-May-17 Agappe Diagnostics, the diagnostic reagents and equipment manufacturer, has tied up with Japanese company Hitachi Chemical through technology licensing, to manufacture fully automatic specific protein and clinical chemistry analysers in India. [image: Agappe Diagnostics Ltd]

22-May-17 The Indian government will roll out India's first Medical Tourism and Wellness policies in Jun-17. Designed to incentivise medical tourism and wellness, they will require hospitals and wellness centres to register, and to list the prices of procedures. [image: BCCL / ET Healthworld]

22-May-17 The world’s second-largest healthcare group, Integrated Healthcare Holdings (IHH), has emerged as the front-runner to acquire Malvinder and Shivinder Singh's Religare healthcare assets, after the Malaysian hospital chain ended its decade-long association with Apollo. [image: Fortis Annual Report / Asia Samachar]