02-Apr-15 Wipro GE Healthcare has launched Revolution ACTs, the first CT scanner designed and manufactured in India. The company said the system is the result of USD19 mn in investment and collaboration with Indian healthcare providers over for four years. [image: Deccan Herald]

29-Mar-15 The Drugs Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has notified the Medical Devices Rules 2015, bringing medical devices under comprehensive regulatory control for the first time in Pakistan. The country now claims to be ahead of its neighbours such as India and Bangladesh with respect to regulations specific to medical devices. [image: Fahrenheit211]

24-Mar-15 The Chinese University of Hong Kong will collaborate with London's Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation on medical data analytics, health policy education and research related to healthcare innovation and biomedical robotics. [image: Imperial College London]

20-Mar-15 Hanoi's Bach Mai Hospital and GE Healthcare have signed an MOU to introduce a new training programme aimed at improving patient connectivity and clinical decision making. USD250,000 worth of patient monitors provided by GE Healthcare will be used to help train clinicians across the country, in the ER and ICU. [image: Vietnam Investment Review]

18-Mar-15 Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients. [image: 3Dme Creative Studio / Shutterstock]