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29-Oct-18 Innovative technologies are in great demand among international patients. In price-agnostic markets such as China, the Middle East and Russia, accessing technology is typically the number two reason for travelling overseas for treatment, after access to the latest drugs. [image: ITIJ / Getty Images]
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02-Oct-18 Healthcare will be one of the top growth sectors in Malaysia, supported by a growing upper-middle income population and medical tourism, according to AmBank. But rapid development in technology presents both challenges and opportunities to industry players. [image: The Edge Markets]
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13-Jul-18 Iran's Ainollah Ghashghavi has met with Senegal’s minister of Health and Social Action to establish an exchange of professors and students, export of medicine, equipment and technology, construction of a pharmacy and a health center in Senegal. [image: MEHR News Agency]
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15-Jun-18 A shortage of human papillomavirus vaccine in China has led hundreds of thousands of women to seek treatment in Hong Kong and neighbouring Asian countries, causing price increases and shortages that sparked a protest. [image: Reuters]
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15-Jun-18 Colombia’s nascent medical marijuana industry looks set to boom. In Jan-18, the International Narcotics Control Board allotted Colombia a 40.5 tonne marijuana production quota, the largest in the world and 44% of the total.
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