01-Dec-14 The top 20 pharmaceutical companies are developing 327 products for developing countries - yet only five of them account for more than half of these: Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, AbbVie and Sanofi. [image: Access to medicine index]

18-Nov-14 Singapore’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital has become the first in Southeast Asia to fit patients with customised total knee replacement implants, which are moulded based on the unique size and shape of each patient's knee. [image: Mediacorp News Group]

Latin America’s lack of fiscal discipline is likely to prevent public health from addressing adequately the additional costs of an aging population. That paves the way for massive private sector growth in fields such as telemedicine, healthcare IT, medical devices and medical technologies, that help personalise medicine or improve the efficiency of doctors and other healthcare professionals. [Image: Global Health Intelligence]

28-Nov-14 Taiwan’s medical equipment industry output increased by over 5% in 2014 to USD2.8 billion, driven especially by demand for new and ‘smart’ applications. Demand for Taiwanese medical equipment will continue to increase in 2015, most notably in India. [image: Want China Times]

28-Nov-14 Lifetech, a medical device company from Shenzhen, is in one way a pioneer in the Chinese medical device industry. Its CeraFlex occluder will enter the mainstream Western market via Medtronic’s sales channels, the first Chinese class III medical device to gain such access. However, so far, only this one product has achieved the European CE mark standard. [image: ACN Newswire]