Malaysia News
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Papaya leaf extracts can cure dengue: Study
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 18 Aug, 2014
Singapore: With hundreds of people in Southeast Asia falling prey to the deadly dengue each year, there has been a frantic search for novel and more effective methods to curb the disease. T...Read more
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Manipal hospitals enter Malaysia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 08 Jan, 2015
Singapore: Manipal group, a leading healthcare services provider, recently announced its plans to build a tertiary care multi-specialty hospital in Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang, Malaysia. The...Read more
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Reality report: AIDS R&D needs more money
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 03 Jul, 2013
Singapore: Recent breakthroughs in HIV prevention research have confirmed the promise of new options to help end the AIDS epidemic and highlight the urgent need for ongoing research to deve...Read more
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IHH Healthcare and Sime Darby bid to acquire Mahkota Medical Center
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 07 May, 2015
Singapore: According to sources, Malaysia's IHH Healthcare and Sime Darby have made offers to acquire Mahkota Medical Center in Malacca. The hospital is owned by Health Management Internati...Read more
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US based IndiPharm gets BioNexus status
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Jul, 2015
Singapore: IndiPharm, a clinical development organization, headquartered in US, has been awarded BioNexus status from the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (Biotechcorp). IndiPharm has o...Read more
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Zaluvida invests RM60 mn to foster R&D
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2014
Singapore: To tap the increasing opportunities in the emerging markets across the globe, Zaluvida Corporate Sdn Bhd, a global investment company, announced that it had invested RM60 million...Read more
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Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 May, 2015
Singapore: However, companies must reinvigorate and expand their deal-making strategies in order to become market leaders. Additional key findings in Ernst and Young's Firepower Index and ...Read more
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Drug resistant bugs on the rise: Malaysia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2014
Singapore: The Malaysian Health Ministry has warned that indiscriminate use of antibiotics must be stopped as antimicrobial resistance could be a major public health security concern in fut...Read more
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Fortis sells Singapore unit to Malaysia's IHH healthcare
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 Sep, 2014
Singapore: Fortis healthcare announced that it has inked a deal to sell its entire diagnostic and molecular imaging unit in Singapore - RadLink-Asia, to Malaysia-based IHH healthcare, for $...Read more
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Columbia Asia to invest $150 mn in India, SE Asia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 Sep, 2014
Singapore: US-based Columbia Pacific Management, provider of hospital systems, plans to invest USD150 million to expand its network to 34 hospitals and one clinic by 2018 in south east Asia...Read more
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Toshiba: Digital imaging operations in Malaysia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 13 Sep, 2014
Singapore: Toshiba Medical Systems Corp (TMSC), Japan, announced that the company is planning to move its diagnostic imaging operations to Malaysia. TMSC also announced that is investing $...Read more
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Malaysia might levy sintax for soft drinks
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 06 Jul, 2014
Singapore: Malaysian Health Ministry is considering on levying 'sintax' for soft drinks. The move is considered to address the high prevalence of diabetes in the country. Health director g...Read more
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CRO survey: India, China dominate market
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Nov, 2012
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Eppendorf lab support to boost BioNexus program
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 18 May, 2012
In a bid to extend support to biotech innovator companies in Malaysia, laboratory technology company, Eppendorf, recently said that any company supported by BiotechCorp under its BioNexus s...Read more
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Malaysia seeks potential growth in medical device sector'
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Jan, 2015
Singapore: Total healthcare expenditure in Malaysia could exceed $20 billion by 2025 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11 percent from 2015 to 2020, accordi...Read more
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Southeast Asia's fitness drive against obesity
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Jun, 2014
Singapore: Though the south east Asian people are considered to be the thinnest in the world, there is an exponential increase in the number of obese people in Malaysia, Singapore and Thail...Read more
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DKSH Holdings partners with Novo Nordisk
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2014
Singapore: Malaysia-based, DKSH Holdings has inked a pact with Novo Nordisk Pharma Malaysia, for marketing and distributing Novo Fine 31G and 32G insulin needles among Malaysian pharmacies....Read more
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Robust multi-tech approaches in HIV therapies in Malaysia
Malaysia | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2012
In Asia Pacific, an estimated 6.1 million people (5.9 million adults) are living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2009. In 2009, the number of newly infected HIV people in the...Read more
