04-Oct-17 The largest independent health insurance company in India, Chennai based Star Health & Allied Insurance, has formally kicked off a sale process with an asking price of USD900 mn to USD1 bn. [image: ET Healthworld]

03-Oct-17 Beijing Hospital, one of China's leading public hospitals, is to implement OmniComm's phase I clinic trial automation solution, bringing the number of China clients for its TrialOne medical trial data management solution to seven. [image: OmniComm Systems Inc]

01-Oct-17 Jack Ma of Alibaba, Tencent Holdings' Pony Ma, and Peter Ma of PingAn Insurance - collectively known as the "three Mas" - are jointly looking to turn Ping An into a full-blown online health insurance and life insurance vendor. [image: Imagine China via AP images]

30-Sep-17 IvWatch LLC, which has developed technology that continuously monitors intravenous sites for early signs of leakage, announced that Terumo Corporation, a medical device manufacturer and distributor, will be the distributor of the ivWatch in Japan. [image: PlasticsToday]

30-Sep-17 The use of artificial intelligence such as IBM's Watson for diagnosing and treating cancer and other illnesses could help ease the load on China’s overburdened healthcare professionals, while reducing the increasingly common issue of doctors being physically assaulted. [image: South China Morning Post]