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Indian hospital chain Fortis Healthcare (FOHE.BO) will buy 23.9% of Singapore’s Parkway Holdings (PARM.SI) from US buyout firm TPG Capital in an expansion drive into Asia and the Middle East. The $959 million deal will give Fortis a foothold in Singapore and Malaysia and make it the biggest private ...

Fortis Healthcare, India’s fastest-growing healthcare company, has announced the acquisition of a 23.9% strategic stake in healthcare service provider Parkway Holdings from TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group). Parkway has a network of 16 hospitals having 3,400 beds spread over six countries, including India. The deal size is estimated ...

Singapore healthcare companies Parkway Holdings (P27.SG) and Raffles Medical (R01.SG) should post strong results for the March quarter thanks to improving fundamentals says Credit Suisse according to Dow Jones Newswires. It is maintaining its “overweight” sector call and tipping companies to benefit from increased inpatient admissions, rise in revenue ...

Dr Tan See Leng has been appointed director/CEO (designate) wef Feb 23 Work experience: Executive VP, Parkway Group Healthcare Pte Ltd; senior VP, international operations, Parkway Group Healthcare Pte Ltd; healthcare advisor, Mubadala (MHC), Abu Dhabi; COO, Mount Elizabeth Hospital

ROCHESTER, Minn. - GE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of rehospitalization that is designed to meet patients' needs where they are, including in their homes.

Singapore’s consumer prices climbed in January as transportation and healthcare costs rose amid an economic recovery that has spurred demand for goods and services. The consumer price index rose 0.2% from a year earlier, the Department of Statistics said in a statement in Singapore today, said Bloomberg. The index this ...

Groups pledge to develop interoperability and standards in both the mobile and healthcare sectors. The goal is improve the accessibility of healthcare systems around the world, as well as helping to reduce costs. - The GSMA announced a partnership Feb. 15 with with the Continua Health Alliance, a ...

China Animal Healthcare (EP4.SG) is off 4.2% at a month-low of 23 cents despite robust December-quarter results. “People are selling on news. The results are quite actually decent,” a dealer with a local brokerage told Dow Jones Newswires. Despite the absence of buying interest, the animal drug maker’s prospects ...

Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index (.FTSTI) rose 0.37% to close at 2,693.62 points yesterday. The Dow Industrials closed below 10,000 for the first time since November last night as investors sold bank shares due to heightened concerns about the euzo zone’s sovereign debt troubles. The following stocks may see unusual ...

China Animal Healthcare, one of the leading players in China’s animal drugs industry, says net profit increased 40.5% to net profit to RMB48.5 million ($10.1 million) from RMB34.5 million. Revenue rose 36.2% to RMB132.5 million since it established its own production facilities in Shenzhou in October 1997 to commence ...

Commodities firm Noble Group (NOBG.SI) will be in focus after the company said it will sell US$400 million ($565 million) worth of bonds due 2020 by reopening an existing bond issue. On Wall Street, the tech-laden Nasdaq was flat while the S&P 500 (.SPX) lost as healthcare stocks fell ...

DBS Vickers Securities in a Jan 21 research report says: "Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has awarded the production code and approvals for the manufacture of pig’s blue-ear disease vaccine in favor of the company’s subsidiary – Shanxi Longkeer, the company’s entity producing swine-fever vaccines. Read more...

ERP software for healthcare is a sector is a great choice, as it is related with human beings, rather than machines. There are some advantage and disadvantage of using ERP in this sector.

CHALFONT ST GILES, U.K. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. Jan 5, 2010 – GE Healthcare, a unit of GE (NYSE:GE), and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) announced today that they have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to ...

Both progressives and conservatives question the constitutionality of the healthcare bill. Specifically, people from across the aisle say that the government cannot force people to buy private health insurance.On the left, progressives such as law sch...

It took three days of votes in the Senate but finally U.S. President Obama’s healthcare bill is set for its final passage in the upper house of Congress today. Once passed in the Senate it will still be subject to more tough horse-trading as it goes back to the lower ...

Pacific Healthcare Holdings, the provider of multi-disciplinary specialist healthcare services, announced the establishment of a specialist unit for thyroid head & neck surgery. Located at Paragon, the new centre, which will focus on surgery for thyroid diseases as well as head and neck cancers, will be helmed by Dr ...

High unemployment and a fractious debate over healthcare have combined to push down President Barack Obama's job approval ratings and highlight the potential for political dangers ahead. Obama, experiencing his first holiday season in the White House, finds himself at odds with some in the

As part of a seven-year deal, Siemens Healthcare will supply its Soarian health IT portfolio to Cape Cod Healthcare, a regional organization looking to improve medical care and efficiency at its facilities. The Cape Cod deal was the latest in a number of Soarian customer wins that Siemens has announced ...

Pacific Healthcare Holdings, the Singapore provider of integrated, multi-disciplinary specialist healthcare services, has the establishment of Pacific Implantable Lens Centre by its specialist eyecare unit. The Implantable Lens Centre, located on Level 19, Paragon, will focus on the use of implantable lenses for vision correction in both the young ...