Asia gets $15 mn donation for better sanitation

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Mar, 2014

Singapore: Last year, the Asian Development Bank created the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund to help provide...Read more

McCann Healthcare forms new group in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 May, 2012

Singapore: McCann Healthcare Worldwide Japan (MHWWJ, a division of McCann Healthcare Worldwide, McCann Worldgroup and In...Read more

Takeda taps Sanofi's top exec to lead global R&D

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2014

Singapore: Japan-based, Takeda pharmaceuticals has tapped Sanofi's executive, Mr Andrew Plump, to head global research a...Read more

Japan says NO to smoking, first dip since 1965

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Aug, 2014

Singapore: A survey conducted by Japan Tobacco has revealed that smoking rates in the country have fallen by 20 percent...Read more

Mauna Kea & Amco to distribute Cellvizio in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Mauna Kea Technologies, leader in the optical biopsy market and developer of Cellvizio, which the fastest way...Read more

Cardica's stapling cartridge seeks Japanese nod

Japan |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Japan's Century Medical has filed for regulatory approval of US-based Cardica's MicroCutter Xchange 30 cuttin...Read more

Japanese develops eye-based autism detector

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2013

Singapore: IP Shakti, an early-stage seed fund for biomedical and life science innovations, has entered into a partnersh...Read more

IHH healthcare acquires 5 nursing homes in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Mar, 2015

Singapore: Malaysia's leading hospital operator, IHH healthcare recently announced that its subsidiary Parkway Life Rea...Read more

Daiichi's Lixiana approved for ischemic stroke

Japan |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Sep, 2014

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical company, Daiichi Sankyo, has received approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour an...Read more

Zeria Group's Tillotts, Numab collaborate to co-develop Inflammatory Bowel Disease therapeutics

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2015

Tillotts Pharma AG, a part of Japan-based Zeria Group, and Numab AG have entered into an exclusive global licensing agre...Read more

Toshiba, Johns Hopkins collaborate on big-data research

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 11 Sep, 2014

Singapore: To utilize the potential of Big Data to predict and prevent diseases, Toshiba has established a 'Toshiba Cent...Read more

Fuji subsidiary AstaReal to build $30 mn plant in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Jul, 2013

Singapore: Fuji Chemical Industry from Japan is planning to set up a $30 million manufacturing unit under its subsidiary...Read more

Bristol seeks Japanese nod of all-oral hepatitis C treatment

Japan |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Nov, 2013

Singapore: US drugmaker, Bristol-Myers Squibb co has said that it is seeking Japanese health regulators approval of its ...Read more

Orphan blood disease drugs to gain market

Japan |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 2 Comment | 07 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Physicians treating rare blood disorders now have more drug treatments to choose from to treat patients. This...Read more

Takeda develops first-ever vomiting bug vaccine

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical is developing a vaccine against norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug. Dr Ra...Read more

NPS gets orphan drugs' rights from Takeda

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Mar, 2013

Singapore: NPS Pharma has re-gained the full worldwide rights to teduglutide and recombinant human parathyroid hormone ...Read more

Eisai expands R&D in Belgium with office in Brussels

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Eisai EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia and Oceania), the R&D division of the Japan-based company...Read more

Genzyme's Cerdelga capsules approved in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Apr, 2015

Genzyme, a Sanofi company, announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing approv...Read more