Pacific Bridge Medical has just received a verbal message from Hong Kong’s MDCO that a mandatory registration system for medical devices will be put to the Hong Kong Legislative Council later this year and implemented in late 2019 or early 2020. This... Read More
This article was originally featured on Medtech Intelligence. As Asia’s prostate cancer burden grows, so do opportunities for Western medical device companies with products to diagnose and treat the disease. Leading Western medical device firms are moving into markets across the Asian... Read More
Moving to make complying with its emerging medical device regulations simpler, Hong Kong authorities have launched an online tool to help manufacturers of in vitro devices (IVDs) properly classify their products. The platform unveiled by Hong Kong’s Medical Device Control Office (MDCO),... Read More
With rates of hepatitis B infection higher in Asia than anywhere else on the globe, deaths from liver cancer are an overwhelmingly Asian phenomenon. Almost 80 percent of cases and deaths from liver cancer occur on the Asian continent, according to the... Read More
Although Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of China, it does not follow the same medical device or pharmaceutical regulations as the mainland. The Medical Device Control Office (MDCO) and the Drug Office under Hong Kong’s Department of Health (DH) are responsible... Read More
Continuing to refine its system for registering medical devices, Hong Kong’s Medical Device Control Office is encouraging importers to adhere to new rules designed to improve quality control for consumers and decrease uncertainty for manufacturers. In accordance with the new procedures, which... Read More
An alarming jump in mental illness in some of Asia’s fastest developing countries has made the region the third largest market in the world for mental health therapeutics, even as social stigma and lack of professional services leave a majority of the... Read More
This article was originally published on MedTech Intelligence. Driven largely by hepatitis in its various forms, liver disease has long been a fixture of life in China and Southeast Asia. Over the past three decades, public health programs in the region have... Read More
The rise of more advanced treatments and medical facilities in Asia is driving strong growth in the market for endoscopic devices, according to a report by Transparency Market Research. The use of endoscopic devices in the diagnosis of various diseases and infections... Read More
The Asia-Pacific medical imaging market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of about 10 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to a report by Technavio. The growth is being driven by technological advancements such as 4-D medical imaging,... Read More