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27-Nov-17 Medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers in Puerto Rico are facing challenges relating to power, ruined equipment and hiring. A new bill that would impose a 20 percent tax on goods shipped to the US mainland could make things even worse. [image: Greg Allen / NPR]
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27-Nov-17 UAE-based Crescent Enterprises has announced its investment in ColubrisMX and XCath, two next-generation micro-robotic medical device companies. Both companies design and develop next-generation robotic technologies that are expected to revolutionise their respective fields. [image: Arabian Gazette]
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26-Nov-17 Shanghai medical device maker MicroPort Scientific will pay USD190 mn to acquire the cardiac rhythm management business of the UK's LivaNova, expanding the two companies' ongoing partnership to bring a range of cardiac rhythm devices to China. [image: LivaNova; MicroPort]
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22-Nov-17 Samsung India has entered into a partnership with Uttar Pradesh to add 20 new Smart Healthcare centres across the state and provide affordable and quality healthcare to populations in low-income areas. [image: The Indian Express]
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20-Nov-17 Volpara Solutions of New Zealand has received regulatory clearance for its quantitative breast imaging tools in Japan and Taiwan, as Class II medical devices. 5 million women in Japan are screened for breast cancer using mammography each year. [image: Volpara Solutions]
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