26-Sep-17 Air Liquide is expanding its healthcare business in Japan with the acquisition of Sogo Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha, a Japanese player with a strong presence in the home healthcare and medical gases markets, especially in the Tokyo region. [image: Air Liquide]

09-Sep-17 Chilean healthcare company Banmedica SA, which operates health insurance, clinics and other services in the sector, has signed a non-binding agreement to sell all of its shares to US-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. [image: Empresas Banmedica]

08-Sep-17 WuXi NextCODE, a genomic big data platform, raised USD240 mn in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital China, making it among the largest venture financing deals for a start-up in the healthcare sector in China. [image: China Money Network]

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19-Aug-17 Singapore's Fullerton Health acquired 43 medical centres and five specialist clinics from Australia's second-largest private hospital operator, Healthscope, for AUD55 mn (USD44 mn). Healthscope decided to sell its medical centres to focus on its hospitals and international pathology operations. [image: Bloomberg]

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