10-Dec-14 Mergers and acquisitions in China’s healthcare sector rose to a record USD11.3 billion in the first 11 months of 2014, up 13% from a year earlier. A combination of ageing population and increasing affluence is driving the deal-making, coinciding with sweeping reforms by Chinese government. [image: Feucht Blog]

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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]

01-Dec-14 Saudi Arabia has introduced new rules that further liberalise the healthcare sector and open it up to investment. Foreigners will be permitted to run hospitals, and global healthcare companies will be able to invest in the country, which is expected to account for almost 60% of the GCC market by 2018. [image: Gulf Business]

27-Nov-14 A new OECD report says despite a 10% improvement in life expectancy over the past 20 years, most Asia-Pacific countries still need to step up efforts to give people access to affordable, quality healthcare. Too many people, especially women, cannot get the treatment they need due to high costs, difficulties in getting permission to see a doctor, or a lack of providers in rural areas. [image: OECD]

24-Nov-14 Malaysia’s Deputy Health Minister has said the infrastructure and culture of the country’s healthcare needs to be re-engineered to deliver better services to its people, in the face of complexity caused by changing disease patterns and reform initiatives. The government is supporting health research by making it a national agenda. [image: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas]