11-Oct-17 Samsung India and Apollo Hospitals announced their collaboration to run jointly the Samsung-Apollo technology backed Mobile Medical Care. The program will screen large sections of the population for non-communicable diseases, particularly the under-privileged sections of the Indian population. [image: ET Healthworld]

10-Oct-17 Medtronic has begun work on an Innovation Center in Chengdu, China, slated to open in 2020. The new Chengdu Innovation Center aims to provide clinical training and research platforms for medical workers in the region and in neighbouring regions. [image: Medtronic]

10-Oct-17 DocOnline, a virtual platform providing access to medical consulting services, plans to roll out services in five more Indian states and several Southeast Asian countries, and offer its digital healthcare services to consumers in 2018. [image: Startup Hyderabad]

09-Oct-17 With the highest rate of hepatitis C globally, Egypt has developed an expertise in treating it. Now it is looking to share its know-how, as well as locally produced low-cost drugs, with foreigners having trouble getting treatment at home.[image: Mohamed El-Shahed, AFP]

09-Oct-17 Altibbi, the Middle East digital health platform, announced USD6.5 mn new funding, led by Middle East Venture Partners and DASH Ventures. Altibbi aims to expand its offering to the Arab world: real-time, round-the-clock telehealth and access to high quality local doctors. [image: Arab News]