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]

22-May-17 According to a poll conducted by Frontier Strategy Group, Brazil’s healthcare spending will only gradually return to pre-crisis levels. 69% of executives believe Brazil’s healthcare market would only return to its pre-crisis level after 2018. [image: DrPrem.com]

22-May-17 GE Healthcare has entered the Indian pharma sector with its biologics, biopharmaceutical targeted, single-use manufacturing platform called FlexFactory with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories as its first customer. The company so far, has installed the FlexFactory at 23 pharma companies worldwide. [image: GE Healthcare]

22-May-17 Singapore eDevelopment has initiated research on a new universal therapeutic drug platform, known as Linebacker, to combat a range of diseases including Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer. The research will be led by two-time Nobel Prize nominee Daryl Thompson. [image: ET Healthworld / BBCL]