10-Dec-14 The Mexican Health Ministry has taken an important step to ensure access to palliative care for people suffering from pain due to incurable illness, releasing long-awaited guidelines that will put into practice the provisions on end-of-life care outlined in the country’s 2009 health law. Seven of Mexico’s 32 states have no hospitals offering palliative care. [image: Human Rights Watch]

09-Dec-14 Increasing numbers of hospitals in Vietnam are being equipped with modern technology and German companies are at the forefront: Siemens has been providing imaging and laboratory diagnostics since 1993, B. Braun is raising its investment in Vietnam to USD270 million, and other German firms doing well in Vietnam include Boehringer Ingelheim, Draeger, Rudolf Lietz, Fresenius Kabi, Bayer Schering and Merck. [image: Vietnam Investment Review]

05-Dec-14 India produces a third of the world's medicines, mostly in the form of generic drugs. But more than 80% of the raw materials for these drugs are imported from China. That gives its neighbour a virtual monopoly over pricing and supply - so much so that there are now no domestic Indian producers of many essential medicines, a situation that worries the Indian government. [image: The Insider]

04-Dec-14 GE Healthcare Life Sciences is planning to open a Technology Laboratory in Turkey which will feature the company’s latest tools for drug discovery, protein science and bioprocessing research. Turkey plans to transform its domestic manufacturing of devices and pharmaceuticals, with plans for 60% of demand to be met locally. [image: GE Healthcare Life Sciences]

03-Dec-14 Barco has been selected by China’s Shandong Provincial Hospital group to implement a comprehensive telemedicine system across 204 hospitals and clinics in the province. [image: Barco].