New Zealand announces no active cases of COVID-19

Ministry of Health is very pleased to report no active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand. The Ministry has been notified...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
Pictor receives funding boost to tackle COVID-19 and M. bovis

New Zealand’s Auckland-based biotechnology company Pictor has received a double funding boost from government and ...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
dnature secures funding to develop COVID-19 test

The Health Research Council in New Zealand has announced that dnature diagnostics & research company is the recipien...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Orion Health eases strain with COVID-19 management platform

New Zealand based Orion Health has been working closely with its customers since the beginning of the outbreak to quickl...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
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April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
New GeoMap Tools Gets Patient Recruitment Back on Track

Award-winning global leader in digital patient recruitment GeoMap Clinical by TrialWire announced on 11 March 2020 that ...

March 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Western Australia to improve patient care via Silhouette implementation

New Zealand headquartered ARANZ Medical's Silhouette system is being deployed in Western Australia to imp...

October 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Smile Direct Club brings affordable dental solutions to NZ

US headquartered SmileDirectClub, Inc., the industry pioneer and first direct-to-consumer medtech platform for teeth str...

October 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
Clinigen to distribute Etopophos, Vepesid in Australia and NZ

Clinigen Group plc, the global pharmaceutical and services company, and CHEPLAPHARM Arzneimittel GmbH (‘CHEPLAPHAR...

September 3, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Adherium and Summatix join hands for Digital Healthcare

New Zealand headquartered company Adherium has unveiled its new strategic data-based initiative with Summatix Pty Ltd, w...

August 22, 2019 | Thursday | News
Bioventus receives expanded indications for DUROLANE

Bioventus, a global leader in orthobiologic solutions, is launching DUROLANE SJ (1mL), and has received expand...

August 13, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Volpara signs distribution agreement to sell Transpara

Volpara Solutions and ScreenPoint Medical BV has announced signature of an agreement under which Volpara will ...

July 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
New vaping to quit smoking website launches

A new website (vapingfacts.health.nz) is being launched today by Associate Minister of Health Jenny Salesa to provide Ne...

June 13, 2019 | Thursday | News
Volpara expands association with GE Healthcare

Volpara Solutions, the wholly owned sales and marketing arm of Volpara Health Technologies Limited of New Zealand, has a...

March 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
IMAGR wins first prize at Asian Entrepreneurship Award

The Asian Entrepreneurship Award Steering Committee recently announced that IMAGR Ltd. of New Zealand won first prize at...

November 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Asia Pacific Psychiatric Conference to be held in Auckland

The largest annual Congress of psychiatrists from Australia and New Zealand will be held next week at the SKYCITY Auckla...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
Tandem announces Australia, New Zealand distribution deals

Singapore - Tandem Diabetes Care, a medical device company and manufacturer of the only touchscreen insulin pumps availa...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
ESR plans investment in biotech start-up

As part of the drive to remain at the forefront of technology, ESR has invested in AuramerBio Limited (ABL), a biotech s...

September 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
Specialized Therapeutics grants sublicense to Mundipharma for anti-emetic products

Singapore: Specialized Therapeutics Pty Ltd and Mundipharma Pty Limited announce a sublicense agreement enabling Mundiph...

March 8, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Thailand hospital trials mHealth application

Singapore: Thai patients will begin receiving SMS appointment reminders direct to their mobile phones as Bangkok's Vibha...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Circadian's new diagnosis tech to be launched in July

Singapore: A novel technology for aiding the diagnosis of Cancers of Unknown Primary (CUP), by Circadian Technologies, w...

June 28, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Australia's TransBio, DendroCyte to develop antibody for transplant rejection

Singapore: Australia based TransBio and DendroCyte BioTech have entered into a multi-year collaboration to discover and ...

September 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
LanzaTech: The biofuel wonder

With the rising cost of fuel and the depleting reserves, the world is pinning its hopes on viable options for biofuels. ...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
NZ gets drug that glows brain tumour

Singapore: A novel drug, GLIOLAN (aminolevulinic acid HCl), that helps neurosurgeons to better visualise and remove mali...

September 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Fisher and Paykel products win design awards

Singapore: Two of Fisher and Paykel (F&P) Healthcare's products have won design awards at the iF (International Foru...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | News
Aquaflow wins Red Herring award

Singapore: New Zealand-based renewable fuels company, Aquaflow Bionomic, won a Red Herring magazine Top 100 Asia Award i...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Orion Health expands into Asia with new Vietnam contracts

Singapore: New Zealand based healthcare technology company Orion Health has struck strategic deals with major Vietnamese...

July 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand firm to supply asthma devices to AstraZeneca

Singapore: New Zealand-based medtech tech developer, Adherium, has entered into a long term partnership with AstraZeneca...

July 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Green fuel pioneer Sean Simpson wins BioSpectrum award

With the need for green fuel technologies growing bigger every day, New Zealand company LanzaTech is providing an altern...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Elsevier, ARMS announce winners of Scopus award

Singapore: Elsevier and the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) awarded the winners of the 3rd annual Scopu...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Aquaflow competes for Red Herring's Top 100 Asia award

Singapore: Kiwi renewable fuels company Aquaflow Bionomic has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Asi...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
Fonterra studies breast milk components to make similar child nutrition products

New Zealand biggest dairy firm, Fonterra, recently collaborated with International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) to fund...

October 22, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
STA to distribute novel cancer drug in Australia, NZ

Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA),  has partnered with European...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Lonza acquires New Zealand's agro development firm

Singapore: Swiss-based biosupplier giant Lonza has acquired New Zealand's Zelam - a developer and manufacturer for crop ...

August 5, 2015 | Wednesday | News
LanzaTech is the only bioscience firm on Forbes list

Singapore: Forbes magazine's top 100 list of America's 'most promising privately held companies' has ranked LanzaTech, a...

February 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
NZ firm migrates to Aus to capitalize on MS drug

Singapore: New Zealand-based biopharmaceutical company Innate Immunotherapeutics is migrating to Australia in a move to ...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Entering phase III involves much tech transfer: Dr Paul Tan

Living Cell Technologies, a cell implant company based out of Australia and New Zealand, appointed Dr Paul Tan as its ch...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Aquaflow on the path to commercialize biofuels

Aquaflow, a clean energy company, is working towards making refined next generation biofuels a commercial reality within...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Orion's e-health solution for Philippines hospital

Singapore: New Zealand-based health software company, Orion Health, has partnered with The Medical City (TMC), Philippin...

July 3, 2014 | Thursday | News
NovaBay's new deal brings Avenova to patients in NZ

Singapore: NovaBay Pharmaceuticals announced collaboration with Ophthalmic Instrument Company to market NovaBay's breakt...

September 3, 2015 | Thursday | News
Dr Jennifer Holmgren: I like to work on things people say can't be done

I believe in what Mr Thomas Edison has said, "Vision without execution is a hallucination". I was born in Colombia and m...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Pacific Edge's Cxbladder achieves sales in the US

Singapore: New Zealand-based cancer diagnostic specialist Pacific Edge has completed the first commercial sales of Cxbla...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Paul Hutchison: Ushering in a revolution in NZ's clinical trial sector

Dr Paul Hutchison is ushering in a new era in the history of New Zealand's healthcare sector. Dr Hutchison, a parliament...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
NZ can generate $300 mn from clinical trials by 2020

New Zealand is taking steps to improve the environment surrounding the country's clinical trial domain. With no accurate...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
LanzaTech chosen technology pioneer by World Economic Forum

Singapore: LanzaTech, which provides novel and economic routes to fuels and high value chemicals from waste gas streams,...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
NZ health IT director: Sharing health info is a hurdle in NZ

Mr Graeme Osbourne led to the establishment of the National Health IT Board of New Zealand as its executive chair. He su...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
LanzaTech collaborates with Indian IOC-DBT

Singapore: LanzaTech, a New Zealand-based firm has collaborated with India to convert harmful carbon dioxide emissions i...

November 7, 2014 | Friday | News
Philips appoints new head for Aus-NZ

Singapore: In a swift move, Royal Philips has announced the appointment of Mr Kevin Barrow as both Country Manager for P...

September 1, 2014 | Monday | News
New Zealand goes all guns blazing on eHealth

Aiming at achieving high quality healthcare and patient safety through integration of information and technology (IT) at...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Bracket Mushrooms: Prevents Prostate Cancer

Singapore: Scientists at the Auckland University have explained the goodness of ganoderma lucidum, mushrooms in inhibiti...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | News
Tech drive demand for 3D medical imaging

Singapore: Global Industry Analysts (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on 3D medical imaging m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Nexus6 gets $4.6 mn funds for Smartinhalers

Singapore: Auckland-based medical devices company Nexus6 has secured $4.6 million new investment to support internationa...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Asia gets $15 mn donation for better sanitation

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

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
F&P nasal pillows mask to treat sleep apnea

Singapore: Fisher & Paykel (F&P) Healthcare introduced the F&P Pilairo Q nasal pillows mask for the treatmen...

September 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
Fisher & Paykel expects $63 mn profit in FY 2012-13

Singapore: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare raised its earnings guidance and has introduced a new full face mask range for...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
IIL establishes its subsidiary in NewZealand

Singapore: Indian vaccine major, Indian Immunologicals (IIL,) has forayed into the international market by forming a sub...

December 8, 2014 | Monday | News
Preventing pandemics in South Asia

Singapore: New Zealand's Massey University has successfully completed a four year campaign involving healthcare professi...

September 25, 2014 | Thursday | News
NZ funding process is opaque, lacks new medicines

Medicines New Zealand is the industry association representing companies engaged in the research, development, manufactu...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Omega-3 green-lipped mussel extract alleviates joint pain

Singapore: According to a recent study published in Rheumatologia, the official journal of the Institute of Rheumatology...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Scientists develop brick-sized, portable DNA sequencer

Singapore: Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand have developed the world's first brick-sized portable D...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
NZ firm to buy Aus pharma wholesaler for $1.1 bn

Singapore: New Zealand-based Ebos Group is going to buy Australia's pharmaceutical wholesaler and distributor, Symbion t...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Innovation spurs in New Zealand

The connected health strategy has opened new avenues for IT solution and technology providers to bring innovation that m...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
CRO survey: India, China dominate market

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November 24, 2012 | Saturday | Analysis
NZ team unveils new mental health app

Singapore: All Right?, a public health campaign in New Zealand, has unveiled a new mental health app designed to help qu...

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | News
University of Otago gets $5 mn anonymous grant for heart research

Singapore: The University of Otago Christchurch Appeal got off to a flying start with a $5 million donation to its Chris...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | News
AgResearch scientist gets grant for TB research

Singapore: An AgResearch scientist has won a Grand Challenges Explorations grant, an initiative funded by the Bill &...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
Pressure BioSciences signs agreements to expand

Singapore: Pressure BioSciences has entered into distribution agreements with three companies having combined sales cove...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
LCT, Dr Doug Wilson honored at NZBIO

Singapore: Living Cell Technologies (LCT), which is based out of Australia and New Zealand, has been named as New Zealan...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Fisher & Paykel HY profits up by 18%

Singapore: Auckland-based Fisher & Paykel Healthcare reported net profit after tax of $27.17 million (NZ$33.3 millio...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | Company results
TriReme enrols patients for drug-coated Chocolate PTA balloon

Singapore: TriReme Medical, a subsidiary of Singapore-based QT Vascular, has enrolled three patients in a clinical study...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | News
Australia to grow Chinese anti-cancer fruit

Singapore: University of Queensland (UQ) is soon going to globally launch a delicious berry-like ancient Chinese red bay...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Fisher&Paykel appoints Atcor's chairman as its director

Singapore: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has appointed Mr Donal O'Dwyer as an additional non-executive director of the...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Video message from women leaders in bioscience

We come across several women in the field of biosciences at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. Howev...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
NZ Pharma to supply drug candidate for NIH trial

Singapore: New Zealand Pharmaceuticals (NZP), a manufacturer of pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs, will manufacture ...

October 1, 2012 | Monday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
BLIS Technologies plans to raise more money

Singapore: The board of BLIS Technologies, a New Zealand-based company, has advised the company to revise its guidance f...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Echo Therapeutics expands agreement with Ferndale

Singapore: US-based Echo Therapeutics, a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wire...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
New Zealand slashes price of Sanofi arthritis drug

Singapore: PHARMAC, the Pharmaceutical Management Agency in New Zealand, has slashed the price of arthritis drug Arava (...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Drug developed in New Zealand gets go ahead for trial

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for PR610, an anticancer "stealth" drug invent...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Oramed granted patent in New Zealand

Singapore: The New Zealand patent office granted an approval to Oramed Pharmaceuticals for a key patent titled, 'Methods...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
High school kid named 'neuroscientist of the future'

Singapore: Mr Jackson Huang from the Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology, has been named Australia...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Oncology is the top therapeutic focus area for CROs in APAC

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Ziena Jalil: NZ, Singapore have much to learn from each other

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is New Zealand government's national economic development agency and works to st...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
NZ value-added dairy product launches in Japan

Singapore: New Zealand-based dairy biotechnology company, Quantec, announced that it has signed a distribution and suppl...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum Asia honors Asia's best in bioscience

Singapore: The fifth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 were given away at a glittering ceremony at Hotel Fort Canning...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Researcher wins Rutherford Medal for brain injury drug

Singapore: New Zealand's highest science and technology honor, the Rutherford Medal, was awarded to chemist Professor Ma...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
CoDa Therapeutics raises $19.8 mn from Russian firm

Singapore: CoDa Therapeutics has raised an additional $19.8 million (NZ$24.5 million) from Russian investment firm Rusna...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
NZ firm's multiple sclerosis drug gets US patent

Singapore: A new drug for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) called MIS416, developed by ...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Digital healthcare, the next big thing

A radical shift in how healthcare is delivered globally is underway. Game-changing developments in sensor technologies w...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
BS Survey: Healthcare is getting smarter in Asia

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November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Aussies to get breast cancer treatment analysis

Singapore: Australian women will potentially have greater access to the only genomic test validated to predict whether p...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News

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