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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pledged to step up its efforts to boost health and medical tourism in the region in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, a high-level official there has...

A British mother is facing a £75,000 hospital bill after prematurely giving birth in the US. Reports in the UK say that Amy Collins, 30, needed an emergency caesarean to deliver her...

Singapore is introducing a new visitor system that it hopes will help to enable more business and high net worth travellers to visit it as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause economic...

Abu Dhabi's NMC Health sold its speciality IVF-care business Eugin Group for Fresenius Helios for EUR430m, in its latest step to become a hospital and clinical operator focused on its core Middle...

Bupa’s acquisition of CS Healthcare’s private medical insurance (PMI) business has received final regulatory approval for it to go ahead on 1 January 2021. The Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) published its approval,...

Countries across Europe should be braced for a huge rise in the number of individuals “in the grip of severe mental illness” in the coming months as the impact of the coronavirus...

Health & Protection editor David Sawers talks to independent consultant Elliott Hurst about some of the industry highs and lows of 2020 - and looks ahead to what might lie in store...

The proportion of adults who are worried about financial matters as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is falling – but there are fears that the number of people developing long-term serious...

Around one in seven people in Britain are now unable to access the NHS for dental treatment – and there are growing fears that record numbers of mouth cancer cases are going...

Google's takeover of Fitbit has been approved by the European Commission, following a four-month investigation. The search giant bought the fitness tracking company for $2.1bn (£1.5bn) last November but the EU warned...