A new report on the medtech innovation potential of countries around the world confirms a long-held suspicion: the emerging markets of China and India are gaining on the US. This has been the consensus view based on informed speculation for several ...

After many years of lobbying by the local medical technology industry, South Africa is about to launch proposals and a consultation that should see the emergence of a full regulatory system for devices and diagnostics by mid-2011. With new plans to ...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been quietly revolutionising healthcare for some years now. Telehealth enables the patients themselves to manage their own chronic conditions using wireless, remote technologies in outpatient and ...

Calling on a government to ring-fence funding for key health services might not seem exceptional. But when an influential Brazilian parliamentary committee demands that US$3.4bn – one-tenth of the annual federal healthcare budget – be set aside for ...