Chinese online health market doubles in a year

The value of China’s online healthcare market has grown by 56% this year, according to a report from…

BRICS biomed consortium proposed by Siberian scientists

BRICS biomed consortium: Scientists at the Tomsk Research Institute of Cardiology in Siberia have put forward…

High-tech orthotics start-up secures backing from New York VC firm

High-tech orthotics start-up: Zdravprint, the Moscow-based start-up that is using 3D printing technology to produce customised…

Russian medical equipment market set to favour domestic producers

Russian medical equipment market: Overseas producers of medical equipment are to have their opportunities to bid for Russian…

Russian Venture Company sets up medical technology fund with R-Pharm

 Russian Venture Company (RVC), the Russian government’s fund of funds, has joined forces  with the R-Pharm…

Arab Development Funds pledge $700m to Uzbekistan

Arab Development Funds: A number of Arab financial institutions and development funds within the Arab Coordination…

Counterfeit medicines targeted in new bill

Counterfeit medicines:  A bill proposing that the production, transportation and sale of counterfeit medicines should be…

Medvedev signs off Crimean healthcare subsidies

Crimean healthcare subsidies: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev this week gave the official seal of approval to a…

Free Russian healthcare benefits to be reduced

Free Russian healthcare: As from 2015,  the Russian Finance Ministry is proposing to charge unemployed Russians for certain medical…

Russian funeral service reforms boost to private sector

Russian funeral service: In its attempts to help Russia’s private-sector funeral service sector to attract investment, the authorities…

Kazakhstan awarded energy efficiency grant

The World Bank is to issue a $21.7bn energy efficiency grant to Kazakhstan for the modernization of…

RUB19bn for Russian maternity hospitals

Russian maternity hospitals are to be allocated RUB19bn for the procurement of medical products under the country’s Birth Certificate programme that will…

Medical advertising ban under review

Medical advertising ban: The Russian government is considering lifting the ban on the advertising of medical…

Rusnano and Niarmedic look for medical campus partners

Rusnano and Niarmedic: State-owned nanotechnology specialists Rusnano and the Niarmedic pharmaceutical company are looking for partners…