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Driven by the urgent need to develop more and better ventilators and other devices to treat Covid-19 patients, South Korea plans to bolster private-sector medical device research in the country with an infusion of government cash and expertise. The research and development... Read More

This article was originally published on MedTech Intelligence. Led by Chinese Internet commerce giants Tencent and Alibaba, internet providers have been offering a vast array of cloud computing services free to researchers and clinicians, while hiking their investment in advanced technologies, since... Read More

To ensure hand sanitizers and medical masks remain available to the public, Thai authorities in April placed price controls on both items considered critical to the welfare of citizens and in high demand. Under a notification published by the Thai Central Committee... Read More

With U.S. medical personnel and institutions facing key supply shortages in fighting the COVID-19 virus outbreak, trade officials in March removed tariffs on dozens of medical items imported from China. The tariff exemptions on face masks, exam gloves, surgical drapes, protective gowns,... Read More

This article was originally published on Medtech Intelligence.  Artificial intelligence devices or products, known popularly as AI, imitate intelligent behavior or mimic human learning and reasoning. In its more basic forms, artificial intelligence has been used in the healthcare field to perform... Read More

This article was originally published on MedTech Intelligence. Driven by an aging population with growing needs for new medical technologies—and more means to pay for them—governments and hospitals in China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Korea are joining forces to purchase an increasing... Read More

Chronic health disorders linked to obesity, smoking, high salt intake, and pollution are mounting in China, as Asia’s largest economy grapples with the burdens of rapid growth and affluence. A new study published in the Lancet finds chronic illnesses including stroke, hypertension,... Read More

Less than two years after China first began to prioritize the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases, the government is ordering hospitals to gather copious data on cases in a bid to promote their diagnosis and treatment. The notification in November 2019... Read More

Despite renewed government efforts to bring South Korea’s historically elevated rate of tuberculosis under control, the nation still has the highest incidence rate of the disease among the world’s wealthiest countries – nations that belong to the 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and... Read More