CAREhab – Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 goes digital this July

Asia-Pacific’s annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab and conference element 6th Singapore Rehabilitation Conf...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Carmine Therapeutics teams up with Takeda for non-viral gene therapies

Singapore based startup Carmine Therapeutics has announced that it has signed a research collaboration agreement with Ja...

July 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Genesis Healthcare Ancestry Kit detects Asian genetic diversity and ancestral heritage

Genesis Healthcare Co., Japan's leading genetic testing and research company, has announced the launch of its ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers reasons for faster recovery from Antibiotic Treatment side-effects

A team of scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Spinoff Prize positions Proteona among top 44 science-based global spinoff companies

Proteona has been selected by the Spinoff Prize as one of the top 44 science-based spinoff companies from around the wor...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Alibaba Cloud, Fintech Academy, Pfizer accelerate APAC healthcare innovations

Alibaba Cloud, Fintech Academy and Pfizer have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) leading to t...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Freyr Launches COVID-19 Web Platform for Manufacturers

Freyr, a leading global Regulatory solutions and services company, on 1 July 2020 announced the launch of a powerful web...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
TheraVab implements IP management on dClinic's Blockchain

Singapore based Private Healthcare company, TheraVab, is implementing their IP lifecycle and management on dClinic's Pri...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Novo Holdings expands investment scope to Asia

Novo Holdings, world-leading life science investor with a focus on long-term, sustainable value creation with USD 62 bil...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Plano, Santen team up to tackle global burden of myopia

Japan based Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Singapore based Plano Pte. Ltd have announced a strategic alliance to ta...

July 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore brings on-site COVID-19 test results in one hour

A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a portable COVID-19 micro-PCR diagnost...

July 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
CAREhab – Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 goes digital this July

Asia-Pacific’s annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab and conference element 6th Singapore Rehabilitation Conf...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
SingHealth, A*STAR co-develop chatbot for COVID-19 patients care

SingHealth and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), with support from the Integrated Health Informa...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
J&J presents Significant Progress in Myopia Screening and Education in APAC

Johnson & Johnson Vision, a global leader in eye health and part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Compan...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
J&J Vision presents finding on Myopia disease progression in children

Johnson & Johnson Vision*, a global leader in eye health and part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Compa...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sengenics launches multi-antigen COVID-19 biochip test

Singapore based Sengenics, the Functional Proteomics Company, has announced the launch of ImmuSAFE™ COVID+, a mult...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
"Portable Droplet and Aerosol Reducing Tent (DART)" lessens COVID-19 risk

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a foldable tent-like device that serv...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore designs shield to protect COVID-19 healthcare workers

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a foldable tent-like device that serv...

June 26, 2020 | Friday | News
Dengue virus serotype can disguises to evade immune response, vaccines, therapeutics

Singapore saw 1,158 dengue cases in the week ending 13 June 2020, the highest number of weekly dengue cases ever recorde...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
APAC Health Communications firm SPAG Bolsters Regional Expansion

Health communications firm, SPAG, on 23 June 2020 announced new job hires, business expansion in newer markets and ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore puts focus on threatened miscarriages

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and clinicians at KK Women's a...

June 24, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) impact on Asia-Pacific markets

HONG KONG Prevalence CVD, including heart attack and stroke, is the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong (aft...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | Analysis
EIU launches APAC Economist Intelligence Unit report for heart ailments

  The Cost of Inaction: Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Asia-Pacific   Rehabilitation ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sengenics collaborates with GSK focusing on immunology

Singapore based Sengenics, a functional proteomics company, has announced that it has entered into a research collaborat...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore extensively maps antibiotic resistance genes

Nature Medicine published a study by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome I...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
KONE's Elevator AirPurifier and Handrail Sanitizer protects against COVID-19

KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has introduced a range of people flow solutions in Singapo...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
CAREhab –Singapore Rehabilitation Conference 2020 goes digital

Asia-Pacific’s annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab and conference element 6th Singapore Rehabilitation Conf...

June 19, 2020 | Friday | News
Qualtrics launches new Telehealth solution to optimize patient experience

Qualtrics, the leader in customer experience and creator of the experience management (XM) category, today announced a n...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
OnRobot Launches Complete Plug-and-Play Intelligent Screwdriver

OnRobot, the maker of tools for collaborative applications, announces the release of its smart, complete-out-of-the-box&...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies five potent Abs to fight COVID-19

Scientists from Defense Science Organisation National Laboratories (DSO) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) ...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
SAS Viya's new category of cloud analytics assist AI in healthcare

SAS® Viya® 4, available in late 2020, is engineered to take advantage of the latest cloud technol...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Lucence, A*STAR bring SAFER sample saliva collection kit

Singapore based molecular diagnostics company Lucence and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have ...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
BOGE launches AI-based compressed air stations for Healthcare industry

With the airtelligence provis 3, BOGE sets new standards for the networked control of compressed air compressors. With t...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Bostik launches solvent-free adhesive solutions for APAC medical markets

Bostik, a leading global adhesive specialist for industrial, construction and consumer markets has announced a new serie...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore focuses on digital responses to COVID-19

Minister for Health, Singapore, Gan Kim Yong and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, D...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
SESTO HealthGUARD, the Autonomous Mobile Disinfectant Robot

Singapore’s leading autonomous mobile robot company SESTO Robotics has launched a dual-function Autonomous Mobile ...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
Zebra Technologies Contributes to Global COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Singapore's Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with solutions and part...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
EmTech Asia 2020 to unravel emerging technologies in Virtual forum

MIT Technology Review and Koelnmesse have reimagined EmTech Asia in digital format. Now in its seventh edition, EmTech A...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Naari completes acquisition of ANDAs from Intas Pharmaceuticals

Leading women’s health company Naari Pte Limited (“Naari”), a Singapore-incorporated wholly-owned subs...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Advanced vaccine manufacturing technologies scaling-up at Pharma Industries

The global vaccine effort is guided by four imperatives: speed, manufacture, deployment scale, and global access. The cu...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Tychan to begin Ph 1 trials for mAb against COVID-19

With approval from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Tychan,  a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology com...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
Gilead's Veklury gets approval for COVID-19 treatment in Singapore

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore (HSA) has granted conditional approv...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore assessing virus survival based on air quality

uHoo, an air quality management company based in Singapore and Hong Kong, has launched the "uHoo Virus Index" - the worl...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore witness hike in Dengue outbreak

National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore warned the residents on the background of 735 cases last week which ...

June 5, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore's portable wearable devices to assist in COVID-19 contact tracing

Singapore is reviewing the possibility to distribute a "portable contact tracing device" to assist in its meth...

June 5, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore builds vaccine manufacturing capacity

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on 5 June 2020 while participating in 'Global Vaccine Summit 2020' th...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
Medicom announces new mask production facility in Singapore

The Medicom Group, one of the world's leading manufacturers of surgical and respiratory masks, has announced the further...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
École Polytechnique to attract more Singaporean Students and Researchers

For the past 20 years, the top French Science & Technology institution has built strong relationships with...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
'NCH Disinfection Program' attempts to control and prevent COVID-19 in SG

NCH Asia Pacific, a global leader in industrial and commercial maintenance products and services since 1919, announ...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
Proteona, Twist Bioscience to develop neutralizing antibody therapy against COVID-19

Singapore based Proteona has announced that US headquartered Twist Bioscience will join the international alliance led b...

June 4, 2020 | Thursday | News
Innovation and inspiration on tap at free Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020

As analytics continues to guide and drive the world’s response to COVID-19, SAS debuts the final instalment of its...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Lucence launches SARS-CoV-2 RNA RT-PCR clinical testing service

Singapore based startup Lucence Diagnostics has launched SARS-CoV-2 RNA RT-PCR clinical testing service to support ...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots deactivate SARS-CoV-2

One of Singapore’s leading general hospitals has deployed the Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping RobotsTM, proven to d...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Allianz Care introduce digital health services to Singapore-based customers

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Singapore Branch and Allianz Care have partnered with digital healthc...

May 27, 2019 | Monday | News
NTU Singapore-Harvard study brings hope for Parkinson's treatment

A promising molecular pair has offered hope that could lead to the development of a new treatment to slow down Parkinson...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
Endofotonics focuses on real time detection of early stomach cancer

Endofotonics announced that it has secured an investment of S$12 million led by eminent healthcare invest...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Shinshu University, Toshiba develop tumor-tropic liposome technology

Japan based Toshiba Corporation and a team led by Professor Yozo Nakazawa at the Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu Unive...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
MIMS conducts COVID-19 conversation web-series for Asian PCPs

Singapore based MIMS Group conducted an online symposium for Asian primary care physicians (PCPs) titled "COVID-19:...

May 28, 2020 | Thursday | News
Penta Security expands presence in Singapore healthcare sector

Penta Security, the first appliance-type identity and access management (IAM) solution provider in South Korea, exp...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Holmusk closes $21.5 M series A funding round

Singapore based Holmusk, a leading data science and health technology company, today announced a US$21.5 million&nb...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
Positive Correlation between Stress, Weight Gain And Physical Body Pain Observed

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives and livelihood of many people. It has caused insecurities, anxiety an...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Singapore discovers specific gene drivers linked to Asian lung cancer

Singapore scientists have completed one of the largest comprehensive genome studies of Asian lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD)....

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
Roche’s Tecentriq approved for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer

Roche, a global leading provider of pharmaceuticals and cancer treatments, today announced that the Health Sciences Auth...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to develop rapid non-invasive tests for COVID-19

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has recei...

May 20, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Intellect launches digital therapy app for masses

Singapore based mental health tech startup Intellect has launched an app that provides a new form of digital therap...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's Experian connects COVID-19 impacted consumers in Asia

Experian, the world leader in information services, 18 May 2020 announced that it is working with its existing telco par...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's new COVID-19 test detects neutralising Ab without need of containment facility

Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), a research-intensive graduate-entry medical school, GenScript Biotech Corporation, a...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Novena establishes new biz unit for PPE supplies

In current challenging times, Singapore based Novena Global Lifecare (NGL) pivots its business and is now appointed...

May 14, 2020 | Thursday | News
SESTO introduces autonomous mobile disinfectant robot

Singapore’s leading autonomous mobile robot company SESTO Robotics has launched a dual-function Autonomous Mobile ...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Strategic Investors Invest in CXA Group aiming health ecosystem platform

CXA Group (CXA), Asia’s first employee ecosystem platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices, announce...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
IIT Guwahati collaborates with Duke-NUS

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have us...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Speedoc's Telemedicine Service to support Singaporeans during CB

Speedoc app users can now consult a Singapore-registered General Practitioner (GP) from Speedoc’s pool of over 50 ...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Hummingbird closes extended Series B funding round of $25M

Singapore & US based Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotherapeutics company focused on the discovery and deve...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fullerton offers free COVID-19 symptom checker for Singapore

In its efforts to combat COVID-19 across Asia Pacific, Fullerton Health has announced that it has launched its COVI...

May 11, 2020 | Monday | News
Chugai, A*STAR to develop therapeutic Ab against COVID-19

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo announced that Chugai Pharmabody Research Pte. Ltd. (CPR), a resea...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
Largest east asian genetic study reveals novel diabetes genes

In the largest non-European diabetes genetics study to date that involved 433,540 East Asian individuals from China, Hon...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uncovers Anti-Phage Defence Mechanisms in Bacteria

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

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
DoctorxDentist to Donate Medical Supplies in Singapore

COVID-19 has been taking over all our lives and with many of the new cases linked to foreign worker dormitories in ...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore offers hope to patients with underactive bladders

Individuals with an underactive bladder, for example following a spinal cord injury, often cannot sense bladder fullness...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Tessa Therapeutics announces new executive leadership

Singapore based Tessa Therapeutics (Tessa), a clinical-stage cell therapy company developing next-generation cancer trea...

May 5, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Biolidics launches rapid test kit for COVID-19

A rapid test kit for COVID-19 launched by former National University of Singapore (NUS) startup company, medtech firm Bi...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
Vela Diagnostics Receives BARDA Funding to Develop COVID-19 Tests

Vela Diagnostics has been awarded a $225,000 contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BAR...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics receives CE mark for COVID-19 test

Singapore headquartered Vela Diagnostics announced that the manual version of the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops comprehensive medical strategy for COVID-19

The Multi-Ministry Taskforce in Singapore has a comprehensive medical strategy to ensure that individuals infected with ...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
MiRXES to distribute A*STAR's SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test

MiRXES, a homegrown Singapore-based biotech, has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Author...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore designs AI platform to combat infectious diseases

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to develop, researchers around the world are attempting to find the most effective trea...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
SARS-CoV-02: What are the chances of false negatives in tests?

This May 2020, join BioRad's for a month of discovery with Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) – one of the most exciting ...

April 25, 2020 | Saturday | News
Non-invasive cardio-respiratory sensor to predict clinical respiratory deterioration

The National University Hospital (NUH), NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) and Respiree Pte Ltd announce...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops guide for COVID-19 remote consultation

Primary care health workers now have a guide for conducting remote consultation of suspected COVID-19 patients, develope...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
3,000 Global Healthcare Workers Join Alibaba Online to explore COVID-19

Amid the global spread of COVID-19, it has become more important for medical personnel with firsthand experience treatin...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore explores immunotherapy for COVID-19 treatment

The engineering of specific virus-targeting receptors onto a patient’s own immune cells is now being explored by s...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Entrepreneurship flourishes amid pandemic in Singapore

Singapore based early-stage VC Antler has received over 1500 applications from 100 countries in barely two weeks since i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Critical self-reliant healthcare life-supporting supply chain to emerge post COVID19

Singapore based ABM Respiratory Care, a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of airwa...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore approves TaqPath COVID-19 combo kit

The Applied Biosystems™ TaqPath™ COVID-19 Combo Kit has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health S...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore creates world’s first IOT-enabled Tele-Ventilator

Singapore based ABM Respiratory Care, a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of airwa...

April 20, 2020 | Monday | News
NTU builds disinfection robot to tackle COVID-19 outbreak

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a semi-autonomous ...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Study reveals importance of mitochondrial small proteins in energy production

A newly-discovered small protein in mitochondria is essential for energy production, report Duke-NUS researchers and the...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Vela's COVID-19 test receives provisional authorisation from HSA

  Vela Diagnostics has announced that the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test has received provisional authori...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Doctor Anywhere to launch COVID-19 medical advisory clinic

Doctor Anywhere, a regional tech-led healthcare company headquartered in Singapore, is launching the Doctor An...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
“Sustainable Financing Framework" for ASEAN healthcare amidst COVID-19 crisis

Stable and sustainable health financing is considered an essential component for achieving crucial health goals in popul...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | Opinion