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According to a survey conducted by GO Associados Business, the price of health insurance grew 12.2% in 2015 as compared to 2014. It was the highest growth observed throughout the healthcare [...]

Brazil claims itself as the largest medical equipment market in Latin America while medical devices imported from the US account for 30% of the total imported products.

The Health Minister of Brazil signed an agreement with the US-based Varian Medical Systems to construct a radiotherapy equipment manufacturing plant in Brazil, the first such unit in Latin America.

Brazilian health minister said providing primary care is the government’s main priority. Speaking at the second edition of the Health Forum in Brazil, he also mentioned that the prominent problem [...]

Diagnostic industry majors such as General Electric, Agfa Healthcare and Toshiba at 45th Jornada Paulista of Radiology conference, mentioned the strategies of empowering their businesses to close [...]

The Carlyle Group has invested RUB 1.75 billion (USD 603 million) in Rede D’Or and the group will own 8.3% stake in Rede D’Or.

Hemovida web system, Transfudion module, a blood transfusion monitoring system developed by Datasus, the IT department of the health ministry of Brazil has been launched by the health ministry of [...]

Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, announced in January that her government would allow foreign investment in the private healthcare sector for the first time.