29-Mar-17 UK based Priory Group that provides top-end private healthcare, has opened its first overseas mental healthcare clinic in Dubai’s prestigious Healthcare City (DHCC). The new mental healthcare clinic will treat a wide range of conditions including depression, stress, addiction, and anxiety-related conditions including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic attacks. [image: Emirates 24 I 7]

21-Mar-17 Israel's EyeYon Medical has raised USD6.5 mn to develop, test, and seek regulatory approval for its two main solutions: EndoArt, an artificial endothelial layer which can replace the need for cadaver based implants, and Hyper CLTM, a therapeutic soft contact lens. The investment was led by China-based VC Rimonci Capital and Gauss Group, with existing investors Triventures and Pontifax. [image: Globes]

21-Mar-17 Indonesia's Siloam International Hospitals aims to double its hospitals to 50 by 2019. The country's largest hospital operator expects to expand into remote areas, including New Guinea, now that the universal healthcare system allows low-income people to seek medical treatment. The company will also look to expand via acquisitions. [image: Shinya Sawai]

17-Mar-17 TPG, the US alternative-investment firm, sees opportunities in healthcare in Asia to meet untapped demand in some of the fastest-growing economies. The region is short of quality healthcare infrastructure, said Jim Coulter, co-CEO. TPG’s Asian investment arm manages USD6 bn in assets, including a stake in the United Family Healthcare chain of high-end Chinese hospitals. [image: Bloomberg]

16-Mar-17 N Health, a unit under Thailand's BDMS hospital group, has launched a medical laboratory in Yangon, Myanmar, with local partners, to tap growing opportunities there. Since the civilian government started in 2011, health expenditures have risen over 10 times and this is just the beginning," said Dr Win Zaw Aung, managing director of Sea Lion Group. [image: Bangkok Post]