01-May-16 Turkey’s appeal has extended beyond sea and sun vacations to the area of health tourism. Its hi-tech hospitals and doctors accomplished in specialist treatments are now making a mark. Superior medical outcomes have become the norm, in better surroundings and based on refined concepts of service. Turkey is no longer only favored for cosmetic, eye and dental surgery. [image: Shutterstock]

14-Apr-16 The Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has signed a SAR200 mn (USD53 mn) agreement to provide medical care for poor rural people in India, funding 15 mobile health clinics. The money is part of a SAR1 bn fund which will also deploy 60 mobile clinics in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. [image: Arab News]

30-Mar-16 As Turkey becomes one of the world’s fastest growing economies, GE Healthcare has launched a collaborative research scheme to support the Turkish biopharmaceutical industry. [image: GE Healthcare]

21-Mar-16 Johnson & Johnson has seen the profitability of its consumer and medical device sectors flag in recent years, prompting activist investor Artisan to put pressure on the firm. The company’s executives recently shared their vision for growing its medical device business with a six-pronged plan that includes boosting its consumer medical devices business and expanding into emerging markets. [image: Johnson & Johnson]

25-Feb-16 In Saudi Arabia, the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, SK Telecom and ezCaretech have been engaged in a hospital information system project worth approximately KRW70 bn since 2014 in a contract with six hospitals under the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard. The transfer of the Samsung Medical Center’s genome-based precision medicine Avatar System is around the corner, too. [image: Business Korea]