Ferne Health launches home-based STI screening kits in Singapore

Ferne Health, a women-focused online sexual health platform, has officially launched on 27th September 2020. The online ...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
Novo Nordisk launches innovative treatment for diabetes in Singapore

Novo Nordisk, a global leader in diabetes care, on 21 Sep 2020 announced the launch of Ryzodeg® in Singapore. The ne...

September 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers blood markers to predict COVID-19 severity or risk

Researchers from A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), together with international collaborators have disc...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore launches new digital platforms for cancer care

Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) has launched 3 digital platforms; SCS AI Chatbot SCS FIT Portal SCS Telesupport Portal...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore’s EDDC to discover new AI-driven COVID-19 therapies

Auransa, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven pharmaceutical company, on 29 Sep 2020 announced a resea...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Catheter Ablation can delay Atrial Fibrillation Progression by 10x than drug therapy

Biosense Webster, Inc., part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies*, has published a report, Atria...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore commits $2.2B to support residents with MediShield Life premiums

The MediShield Life Council has made preliminary recommendations for the MediShield Life benefits to be enhanced, and fo...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eko.ai signs deals with AstraZeneca and Janssen for automating echocardiograms

eko.ai, a fast-growing, Sequoia India and EDBI backed, medtech startup based in Singapore using machine learning to auto...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NUS introduces new translational medicine programme

National University of Singapore (NUS) Medicine has launched a new programme- Kickstart Initiative, that helps bring pro...

September 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore inks research collaboration with India for biotherapeutics

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in India and Esco Aster in Singapore have signed agreement to establish colla...

September 25, 2020 | Friday | News
APACMed congregate Healthcare Leaders at the global hybrid conference

On 24 Sep 2020, the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) brought to fruition the first-ever hybrid virt...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore devises Trojan horse approach to kill cancer cells

Cancer cells are killed in lab experiments and tumour growth reduced in mice, using a new approach that turns a nanopart...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
vCargo Cloud launches GUUD trade platform to simplify global trade processes

Singapore’s vCargo Cloud Pte. Ltd. (“VCC”) on 23 Sep 2020 announced the launch of GUUD &ndas...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore focuses on COVID-19 vaccine technology for elders

Researchers from Monash University in Australia and the National University of Singapore have adapted new cancer and pan...

September 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops single daily pill for Parkinson’s disease

Materials scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new pill which us...

September 21, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore gets first green loan for building healthcare facility

The Farrer Park Company Pte Ltd has obtained a S$120 million green loan from United Overseas Bank Li...

September 18, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore and Apple partner on national health initiative

The government of Singapore and Apple® have announced their partnership on the health initiative LumiHealth, a perso...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore discovers regenerative medicine for future cell therapies

An international collaboration involving Singapore's Duke-NUS Medical School and Australia's Monash University researche...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Web series for Healthcare community to spotlight global challenges and opportunities

Singapore's CAREhab is all set to launch a new dedicated web engagement series on 15 Sep 2020, exclusively for the healt...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's Denodo Coronavirus Data Portal assists in tackling COVID-19 impact

Denodo, the leader in data virtualization, on 15 Sep 2020 announced increased adoption of its Coronavirus...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
World's first clinical trial with Sirolimus Coated Balloon for the treatment of SFA begins

Singapore's Concept Medical Inc., focused on vascular intervention drug delivery devices, on 15 Sep 2020 has a...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Merck expands BioReliance viral clearance offering in Singapore

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced an expansion of its Singapore biosafety testing laborator...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Novel, agile & omnichannel approach from pharma companies can structure a futuristic healthcare system

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the traditional business models of companies. While digital transformation has been ...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore develops novel method to produce RBCs

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapor...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore launches Prehospital Emergency and Research Centre

Emergency care covers a range of services that span the care provided by laypersons at the scene, pre-hospital care by S...

September 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Biofactory unveils "Plug and Play" System to Instantly Isolate Healthcare Facilities

The Biofactory, a Singapore-based biomedical technology manufacturer, unveiled a new portable "plug and play" syste...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Asia leaders convene to drive positive change for Healthier workplaces amidst COVID-19

The Progressive Alliance Towards Healthy Workplaces (PATHw), a Pan-Asia coalition of human resources and business leader...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Claritas HealthTech launches Claritas iRAD

With a mission to empower radiologists and medical professionals by improving the image clarity for all types of radiolo...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
GetDoc introduces affordable healthcare for South-East Asia users

GetDoc, a member of Jireh Group in Singapore, aims to make healthcare affordable for everyone, and the connected pl...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore releases COVID-19 vaccination strategy

Singapore's government is closely monitoring the global progress in the development of COVID-19 vaccines, and taking act...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's novel method makes bacteria more sensitive to Antibiotics

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterpri...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
SGH, Philips to establish digital pathology CoE in Singapore

Singapore General Hospital and Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, have announced that they will w...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Empagliflozin to reduce the combined relative risk of cardiovascular complications

Full results from the EMPEROR-Reduced Phase III trial in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, with ...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | Analysis
Singapore to increase out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival

 A new study published in The Lancet Public Health found that a series of public health interventions in Singapore ...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS joins TriNetX to increase clinical trial adoption

Duke-NUS, the only graduate-entry medical school in Singapore, has joined the US based TriNetX global research netw...

September 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
GenScript Biotech, Ph biotech firm to distribute COVID-19 immunity tests

GenScript Biotech Corporation entered an exclusive partnership with Philippines (Ph) biotech company, IP Biote...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Genesis MedTech acquires World-first Drug-coated Balloon Technology

Genesis MedTech International has completed the acquisition of the Chocolate Touch ® drug-coated balloon (DCB), a dr...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
Clinuvel opens R&D centre in Singapore

Australia based CLINUVEL Group has announced the opening of its state-of-the-art centralized Research & Develop...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
DSG, Bestat partner in building COVID-19 clinical trials in Singapore

US based DSG, Inc., a global leader of eClinical software solutions and services for the life sciences industry along wi...

August 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Enrolment initiated in World's First RCT to treat BTK

Concept Medical Inc., focused on vascular intervention drug delivery devices, has announced the enrolment of the first p...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
NTU develops biorubber glue for faster surgical recovery

  Materials scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a ...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Nex Cubed partners with ESG to support digital health startups

Nex Cubed, a leader in early-stage innovation and startup acceleration, has announced a partnership with Enterprise...

August 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develop new system to conduct accurate telomere profiling in less than 3 hr

Telomeres being repetitive DNA sequences at the end of the chromosome protects the genetic material against genome ...

August 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
OTSAW tests first live coronavirus sample using disinfection robot

Singapore based OTSAW has built the world's first successfully laboratory tested human coronavirus exterminating machine...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore study links hand-grip strength to metabolic disease in elderly

The prevalence of metabolic disease is on the rise in countries with aging population, such as Singapore, and the early ...

August 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops highly sensitive COVID-19 antibody test

Singapore based biomedical firm Restalyst has developed a COVID-19 antibody test, COVID19N-REAAD™, which will be i...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Yoozoo joins hands with Plano to tackle global myopia epidemic

Plano Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based health technology startup, and one of the world's leading providers of interactive...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore designs AI system to hand gesture recognition

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an Artificial Intel...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Unlocking Healthcare and Life Sciences opportunities in Singapore’s future economy

The far-reaching and profound social and economic impact of COVID-19 has fundamentally reshaped the Singapore economy. W...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
AI accelerates drug repurposing to find potential COVID-19 therapies, says GlobalData

Out of all the different approaches available to find new therapies to treat COVID-19, drug repurposing is one of the fa...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
FedEx awarded “Best Supply Chain Hub in Asia” at APAC Bioprocessing Excellence Awards 2020

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, was named ...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
APACMed Virtual Forum 2020 redefining healthcare agility

The annual medical forum held by the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) brings more than 1,000 delega...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
LABMED ships 65M medical masks, 38M SARS-CoV-2 Transport Medium Kits

Singapore based LABMED continues to play an increasingly crucial role in the supply of medical masks and medic...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Simmons & Simmons strengthens financial markets team in Singapore and Hong Kong

Simmons & Simmons, an international law firm that acts as a biotechnology and artificial intelligence business ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PairX Bio launches venture capital backing targeting Cancer immunotherapies

Singapore based PairX Bio, a next-generation biotechnology startup focusing on cutting-edge cancer immunotherapies, and ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
AUM Biosciences establishes joint lab with SIgN

AUM Biosciences (AUM), a Singapore-headquartered clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to democratize R&D ...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore to create 4,000 new jobs to support healthcare

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat has announced a new injection of S$8 billion stimulus package in add...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
B2B Healthcare procurement Startup, Lumiere32 launches Pay32Clinic

Lumiere32, a Singapore-based B2B healthcare procurement startup, known for its online platform of medical and dental sup...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
ImmunoScape raises $11M to accelerate vital immunotherapies

Singapore based biotech startup ImmunoScape has announced that it has raised USD $11 million (SGD $1...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Merck appoints Liz Henderson as new Regional Vice President, Merck Biopharma APAC

Merck, a leading science and technology company, on 17 August 2020 has announced that Liz Henderson has been appointed R...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops new potential therapies for osteoporosis

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified a new avenue to maintain bone health whil...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore launches New Asian Institute of Digital Finance

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the National University of Singapo...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
AVATAMED raises $1 M in seed funding

AVATAMED, a precision medicine company based in Singapore, announced the completion of its Seed round funding of&nb...

August 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
First liquid biopsy to receive FDA approval for profiling tumor mutations

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States approved the liquid biopsy by Guardant Health, the companion...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore offers solution to reverse drug resistance

  Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a synthetic p...

August 10, 2020 | Monday | News
“Emerging evidence reports saliva sampling is more sensitive than nasopharyngeal swabs”

The use of saliva to test for COVID-19 is being considered an important step by the health authorities as Singapore ramp...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
GenScript Biotech Corporation enters strategic distributor partnership with Premas Life Sciences to distribute cPassTM SARS CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit in India.

GenScript Biotech Corporation (“GenScript”, Stock Code: 1548.HK), a leading global biotechnology company tod...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore's Proteona appointed as Certified Service Provider by 10x Genomics

Proteona Pte. Ltd. on 6 August 2020 announced that it has become the first 10x Genomics Certified Service Prov...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
"Healthcare industry optimistic about post-COVID recovery", reports Global Business Barometer

Economic recoveries from crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic come in many shapes. The hope everywhere is always that th...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
SESTO Robotics launches SESTO Magnus Autonomous Mobile Robot

Singapore’s leading autonomous mobile robot company SESTO Robotics has launched SESTO Magnus - a bi-dire...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
NTU, A*STAR develop new way to deliver more drugs through skin

  Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Agency for Sc...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Gero, a Singapore-based Biotech Startup raises $2.2M in Series A Funding

Singapore based Biotech Gero has raised $2.2M in Series A round led by Belarus-based Bulba Ventures. Yury Melnichek, the...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Virtual CAREhab – Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 kickstarts

Amidst the backdrop of a pandemic that continues to evolve, over 1,200 members of the healthcare industry—itself f...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
6th Asia Healthcare Week: A note on “COVID-19 and the NHS UK Response”

Informa Connect Singapore recently conducted its first live webinar to complement the main conference offering. Hosted a...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | Influencers
Singapore's cancer drug advances further in clinical trials

Made-in-Singapore cancer drug, ETC-159, has achieved a new developmental milestone in achieving “First Patient Fir...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops potential antibody treatment for yellow fever

Researchers from Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), an interdisciplinary group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NTU speeds up gold-standard COVID-19 diagnostic test

Clinician-scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Med...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore brings new hope for lymphoma patients

An AI-driven digital medicine platform, called Quadratic Phenotypic Optimisation Platform (QPOP), developed by researche...

July 31, 2020 | Friday | News
Austrianova files Drug Master File with FDA for Cell-in-a-Box products from HEK293 cells

S.E. Asian company, Austrianova, headquartered in Singapore, announced on 28 July 2020 that it has filed a Drug Mas...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NEJM study demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of mAb to treat Yellow Fever

Tychan, a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing life-saving treatments through disr...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
A*STAR & partners roll out breakthrough COVID-19 test

DSO National Laboratories and A*STAR's Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub in Singapore have jointly developed RESOLUTE 2....

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Equal Strategy launches world's first odorless, medical-grade ambient sanitizer

Equal Strategy, a leading sensory branding consultancy based in Singapore has launched a new business arm, Eco...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Epstein-Barr virus rewires host epigenomes to drive stomach cancer

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), one of the most common human viruses is associated with about 8–10 per cent of stoma...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore develops highly specific COVID-19 test to detect neutralizing Abs in 1hr

Singapore researchers have developed a unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) to determi...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore clinicians develop innovative ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Singapore's Clinician innovators from SingHealth hospitals viz., KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), S...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Oncoshot partners with Mydoc to offer second opinion experts advice to cancer patients

Singapore medical start-up Oncoshot is partnering with digital healthcare provider MyDoc, to give cancer patients access...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
MP Biomedicals, A*STAR co-develop rapid Ab test kit for SARS-COV-2

MP Biomedicals Asia Pacific Pte Ltd in collaboration with Singapore's A*STAR has developed ASSURE®&nb...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Docquity partners with Novartis to support medical professionals

Singapore based startup Docquity, Southeast Asia's largest professional network of doctors, has partnered with...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore boosts nationwide mask production

Singapore has been ramping up its masks production capabilities since experiments have shown that wearing a ma...

July 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore approves clinical trial application for LUNAR-COV19 vaccine

US based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., a leading clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the di...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Omron launches UVC autonomous disinfection service robot

Singapore based OMRON Asia Pacific, a global leader in industrial automation solutions across Asia Pacific, has forayed ...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore researchers solves challenges of adolescent sleep inadequacy

Adolescents in academically competitive societies often fail to obtain adequate sleep on school-day nights. 85% of secon...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops non-invasive ventilation helmet for COVID-19 patients

With the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore’s healthcare system is faced with uncertainties and challenges includin...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
4th edition of Asia’s largest startup challenges "SLINGSHOT 2020" invites application

SLINGSHOT 2020, powered by Startup SG, is now open for applications with over US$575,000 in prizes to be won! As one of...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's surgical robotic firm NDR Medical closes SGD$8m in Series A funding round

Singapore-based surgical robotic firm NDR Medical Technology Pte Ltd today announced that it has raised SGD$8 million in...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops advanced human liver organoids

A long-term research collaboration between A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the National Universit...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore invents robotic system with AI-driven skin and vision sensors

Two researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) who are members of the Intel Neuromorphic Research ...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore identifies critical antibody target site in SARS-CoV-2

The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have announced...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore uncovers SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell immunity

A Singapore study has uncovered the presence of virus-specific T cell immunity in people who recovered from COVID-19 and...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
MedTech Innovator, APACMed pick 20 startups for annual programme

US based MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, in partnership wi...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News