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Abbott Diagnostics launches global consultancy business

Abbott continues the medtech/pharma charge into services by launching its consultancy arm, AlinIQ a suite of subscription-based professional services, tools and informatics solutions. . We talk to Lisa Rose, Divisional Vice President, Global Marketing at Abbott's diagnostics business.
April 29, 2016

Thyrocare to IPO

India’s fourth largest lab group, Thyrocare, will list in Mumbai on April 27. It hopes to raise INR 480 crore (US$ 72.2m) with shares priced at 420-446 rupees. Mauritian private equity group CX Partners will sell 90% of its holding and the rest is from the firm’s promoters.
April 22, 2016

Contrasting healthcare markets in the GCC

Too reliant on revenues from the petroleum industry, the GCC countries are pushing for economic diversification – and competing for foreign investment. As a result, the healthcare industry is seeing major government incentives and huge PPP projects. We look at how Saudi Arabia, the UAE and smaller Gulf states are drawing investors.
April 4, 2016

Abraaj close to $1bn target

Abraaj is close to its $1bn target for its mammoth Global Healthcare Fund. And its ambitions are becoming clearer.
March 31, 2016

Medical drones by 2017?

Delivering medical samples by drone is faster, cleaner, safer and cheaper, claims Diego Cerutti, manager of the healthcare unit at Franco-Luxembourgois logistics group, Flash. It has developed its own packaging unit and attached it to a drone with a range of 20 miles that will be tested with real samples this summer. A consortium has come together to grow the project and Flash has already received calls from interested lab groups and hospitals in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. And this is not a pipe dream – Cerutti is talking about 2017 or 2018.
March 31, 2016

Unilabs grew organic sales 5% in 2015

Despite all the price pressures on the lab sector, Pan-European lab group Unilabs achieved 5% organic growth in 2015 and saw sales rise in every country, apart from Spain. Costs have also been cut. CEO company doctor Jos Lamers claims to have finally persuaded the big three suppliers to agree to Pan-European pricing. Unilabs debt mountain meant that it still made a net loss of €8m for the year, but that is down from over €100m in 2014. We talk to Lamers.
March 24, 2016

Transforming public hospital labs

We talk to Dr Danielle Govaerts, lab director, Hôpital Civil Marie Curie in Charleroi, Belgium about how the hospital transformed its lab, how it is moving further into outpatient care and about competition with the private sector.
March 24, 2016

Unilabs grew organic sales 5% in 2015

Despite all the price pressures on the lab sector, Pan-European lab group Unilabs achieved 5% organic growth in 2015 and saw sales rise in every country, apart from Spain. Costs have also been cut. CEO company doctor Jos Lamers claims to have finally persuaded the big three suppliers to agree to Pan-European pricing. Unilabs debt mountain meant that it still made a net loss of €8m for the year, but that is down from over €100m in 2014. We talk to Lamers.
March 23, 2016
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