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
Singapore's segregated-team model achieves cancer care during COVID-19

The National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) is a comprehensive academic cancer center in Singapore, manag...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Life Signals receives HSA marketing approval for Tripatch in Singapore

  US based LifeSignals Inc., has announced marketing approval for the Tripatch* ECG Remote Monitoring Patch P...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Risks and consequences surrounding Cyberchondria amidst COVID-19 outbreak

In light of how COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the globe, Singapore's Fake News Laws were discussed promin...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | Opinion
Doctor World ramps up services to combat COVID-19

Integrated telehealth platform, Doctor World is ramping up on its digital infrastructure to continue providing Singapore...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Prolonged usage of PPE induces headaches in frontline healthcare workers

A study conducted by a team of clinical researchers from the National University Hospital (NUH) during the current COVID...

April 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore expands 3rd APAC HPC-AI competition to address COVID-19

The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) and the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore has announced th...

April 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uncovers cancer-causing hereditary mutation in Asians

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...

April 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
OnRobot Brings Highly Flexible food-grade Soft Gripper

Automation just got easier for food and beverage and other “clean” applications such as cosmetics and pharma...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches two media platforms to update public on COVID-19

Gov.sg launched two new channels Gov.sg Telegram and Twitter for the public to get information on CO...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Expara seeks startup community to fight COVID-19

Expara, Singapore's pioneer and leader in early-stage venture capital and venture services, is looking for ent...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thrive by knowing your strengths and weaknesses to explore new domain#Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embraced the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming ...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
Vela Diagnostics to offer manual ViroKey SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test

Ahead of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and in accordance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)&n...

March 31, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's NGL expands affordable medical healthcare

Novena Global Lifecare (the "Company" or "NGL"), entrenches its footprint in Singapore for its medical he...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
Elite Dental Group first to adopt dental AI technology

Elite Dental Group, a cornerstone partner of healthcare giant Novena Global Lifecare, is first in Singapore to...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore designs high resolution medical device

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the prototype of a ha...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore, Malaysia conduct meeting for COVID-19 update

The second Singapore-Malaysia Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting was held via video conference on 24 March 2020. The meet...

March 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore adds $48 B more in “Resilience Budget" to fight COVID-19

Singapore is dedicating nearly SGD $55billion (USD $38.2billion) to combat coronavirus impact in the region, with the in...

March 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore fighting COVID-19 with Fortitude

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Singapore, have successfull...

March 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Rockwell Automation appoints new Regional Director, Southeast Asia

Rockwell Automation, Inc has announced the appointment of Marcelo Tarkieltaub as Regional Director, Southeast Asia. Base...

March 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Lucence develops medical device for COVID-19 diagnosis

Singapore based molecular diagnostics company Lucence has announced the development of the SAFER-Sample (Stabilization o...

March 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore researchers show Underweight diabetics are prone to TB

“’Persistent cough in underweight patients with diabetes warrants screening for active tuberculosis.” ...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore announces AI platform for cell therapy and immuno-oncology

Singapore based Proteona Pte. Ltd. has announced the “DeepSee” collaboration on developing a platform for pa...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Conservation scientist Koh Lian Pin returns to NUS BioSciences

The National University of Singapore (NUS) on 20 March 2020 announced that outstanding Singaporean scientist and alumnus...

March 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Alibaba Cloud offers AI, cloud services to battle Covid-19 globally

Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, on 19 March 2020 announced its offering to medical ...

March 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
Molecular docking show SARS-CoV-2 inhibition by Linebacker & Equivir

SGX-listed Singapore eDevelopment Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned U.S. biomedical subsidiary Impact BioMedical, ...

March 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore formulates novel molecular therapy to treat leukaemia

Scientists and clinicians from Duke-NUS Medical School, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR&...

March 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Philips reveals poor sleeping pattern of Singaporeans

Singaporeans are sleeping more on average, getting 7 hours of sleep per night (vs 6.4 hours in 2019) – 6.7 hours o...

March 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore works on developing Asian immune diversity atlas

With the goal of supporting the science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseas...

March 16, 2020 | Monday | News
Master Your Craft and Continue to Move Forward #Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embraced the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming ...

March 12, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Novo Nordisk to enhance work on liver diseases

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR’s) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), and the Na...

March 13, 2020 | Friday | News
PM Lee’s COVID-19 address in full : This is SG United, We are SG United.

  Singapore , 12 March 2020   Here's the full address:   My fellow Singaporeans, good...

March 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
Never Give-up Your Core Values and Principles #Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embracing the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
Singapore to Launch Free Online Public Course on Infection Control

As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and affect more countries, understanding infection - how it spreads and ho...

March 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
"Knowing your strengths, uniqueness and weaknesses drives success"#Women'sDay2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embracing the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
Frost & Sullivan Defines Top Femtech Global Opportunities by 2024

In an era where the healthcare industry is moving toward personalized care solutions and the acknowledgment of inherent ...

March 9, 2020 | Monday | Analysis
ConnecTechAsia 2020 Postponed to 29 Sep-1 Oct at Singapore

In light of global concerns due to the on-going Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Informa Markets, organiser of Co...

March 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore Launches "Sustainable Financing Framework" for ASEAN healthcare

As part of the "Driving comprehensive healthcare in ASEAN" initiative, EU-ASEAN Business Council, KPMG and SAN...

March 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Zuellig Pharma acquires Cambodge to strengthen Indochina presence

Zuellig Pharma, a leading healthcare services provider in Asia, has announced that it has acquired a controlling st...

March 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Arcturus, Duke-NUS to develop COVID-19 vaccine for Singapore

US based Arcturus Therapeutics, a leading messenger RNA medicines company, and Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), a res...

March 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore announces revolutionary process for scientific applications

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

March 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
ConvaTec sharpens focus on APAC and emerging markets

ConvaTec Group Plc is putting the Asia Pacific region, along with Latin America, The Middle East and Africa, at the fore...

March 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
BC Platforms Appoints Board Member Karen Tay Koh to Accelerate Asia Growth

BC Platforms, a world leader in providing powerful genomic data management and analysis solutions, on 2 March 2020 annou...

March 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Tessa Therapeutics CD30 CAR-T cell therapy attains USFDA RMAT designation

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

March 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Demand for affordable healthcare driving digital health innovation in Asia

 Finn Partners Asia, a global marketing and communications agency, today announced the launch of its What...

February 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
OnRobot launches 3-Finger Electric Gripper for Cylindrical Objects

OnRobot, the makers of a full line of plug-and-produce robotics tools for collaborative applications, continues to drive...

February 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Cigna Provides Special Extension Coverage Measures for COVID-19

Cigna Corporation’s Singapore business, on 27 Feb 2020 announced the special extension coverage measures for its c...

February 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Gemini Therapeutics and SERI to explore new targets for AMD

Gemini Therapeutics, a clinical-stage precision medicine company developing innovative treatments for dry Age-related Ma...

February 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Philips, SIT to train next-gen radiographers at Philips APAC Center

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore’s univ...

February 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Oliver Healthcare Packaging Strengthens Presence in Southeast Asia

Oliver Healthcare Packaging, a global leader in medical packaging, is proud to announce an expanded presence in Southeas...

February 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Maybank, Etiqa Singapore bring insurance coverages for COVID-19

In light of the on-going threat of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and recent developments and rise of dengue fe...

February 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
ASLAN to present at 9th Annual SVB LEERINK global healthcare conference

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals Limited, clinical-stage immunology and oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, on 24th Feb 202...

February 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore uncovers biological clock mechanisms

Surveys show that Singaporeans are among the world’s most sleep-deprived people, insomnia being a common sleep dis...

February 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore reveals real cost of being critically ill

A new Manulife study on critical illness found that close to 40% of respondents have spent all or most of their savings ...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore to reduce and control BP in hypertensive patients

Multi-country intervention trial to improve hypertension management, led by Duke-NUS Medical  School in Singapore, ...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
OnRobot Expands Innovative Gecko Gripper Family

OnRobot, a global leader in robotic end-of-arm tooling (EoAT), has launched a compact, single-pad version of its innovat...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
NUS works on COVID-19 vaccine trial and rapid test kits

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) community are working on a vaccine trial and rapid detection ...

February 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
RHB Offers Financial Relief to Support Customers Affected by COVID-19

RHB Singapore extends financial relief in terms of a moratorium to support its retail and business customers affected by...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca constructs global healthcare network through Health innovation hubs

AstraZeneca the global, science-led biopharmaceutical company focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisatio...

February 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca-Singapore establish strategic partnerships

AstraZeneca, on 13 Feb 2019, announced that it is entering into strategic partnerships with three leading healthcare inn...

February 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore, Malaysia to establish joint working group to combat COVID-19

The objective of the joint working group is to strengthen collaborations and enhance communication between both countrie...

February 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Anagram tackles coronavirus fears in Asian and Singapore organisations

Anagram Group, a leading corporate training company based in Singapore launches online webinars, smaller in-ho...

February 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore submits Coronavirus Diagnostic Test to FDA for EUA clearance

Vela Diagnostics has developed the ViroKeyTM SA201 COVID-19 RT-PCR-PCR Test, a new diagnostic test for the det...

February 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers cancer origins in stomach

An international team has, for the first time, identified and isolated human stomach stem cells that are responsible for...

February 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Structure of protein filament which tethers and moves bacterial DNA revealed

Better known for producing botox—a compound associated with wrinkle removal in cosmetic clinics—the bacteria...

February 3, 2020 | Monday | News
UAE foundation supports NUS with medical professorship

The Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation is donating US$3 million to the NUS Yong Lo...

February 7, 2020 | Friday | News
20th Anniversary ISPE Singapore Affiliate Conference opens "Call for Papers"

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Singapore Affiliate is pleased to announce that the 20th...

February 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
Potential benefits of NR with exercise can relieve hypertension in adults

ChromaDex Corp, the global scientific authority on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide riboside (NR...

February 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
EmTech Asia 2020 explores ethics of Artificial Intelligence

EmTech Asia conference is all set to be held on 25-26 February 2020 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Cen...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Healthcare platform CAREhab 2020 postponed due to coronavirus threat in Singapore

Due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation in Singapore, annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab 2020, origin...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Gmedes launches medication delivery app in Singapore

Singapore-headquartered digital health startup Gmedes announced the launch of G-MEDS, a clinic app service that al...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Azelis Asia Pacific unveils its growth drivers & strengths through a video

After globally launching the new Azelis tagline ‘Innovation through formulation’ and corporate video in July...

January 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore Hosts International Commission on Healthy Longevity

The human race is at the cusp of a demographic transition, experiencing rapidly ageing populations coupled with declinin...

February 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's NGL donates 1M masks & medical supplies to China

Singapore based Novena Global Lifecare, one of Asia's largest integrated medical healthcare and aesthetic comp...

February 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore scientists culture coronavirus from patient

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), in close collaboration with clinicians and scientists from SingHealt...

February 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to translate microRNA research into clinical applications

MiRXES, a leading Singaporean biotech start-up in microRNA (miRNA) technology and diagnostics, collaborated with NU...

January 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Veredus Lab develops test for coronavirus detection

Singapore based medical device company Veredus Laboratories, provider of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions has a...

January 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore ramps up precautions against coronavirus

The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore has on 23 January 2020 confirmed one imported case of novel coronavirus infect...

January 24, 2020 | Friday | News
FMI launched report on Radiation Toxicity Treatment Market

The rise in installation of radiation therapy machines to treat a wide range of cancers further uplifts the probability ...

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore researchers discover causes of muscle wasting in elderly

Sarcopenia is common in older people and is an important contributor to frailty. It affects balance, the way a person mo...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Medical Director of Amaris B. Clinic Predicts 2020 Cosmetic Surgery Trend

Dr Ivan Puah, Medical Director of Amaris B. Clinic, who is accredited by the Ministry of Singapore to perform ...

January 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NGL expands day surgery centres in Singapore

Novena Global Lifecare, one of Asia's largest integrated medical healthcare and aesthetic companies with over ...

January 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Global Young scientists and laureates discuss future of Healthcare at GYSS 2020

The Global Young Scientists Summit 2020 convened global young researchers and renowned eminent scientist from 14th to 17...

January 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Cyclica and AUM Biosciences focus on novel cancer therapies

AUM Biosciences (AUM), a Singapore-headquartered clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to speedily developing a...

January 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Researchers to produce 3D comprehensive map of human brain

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) are working as members of an international team to produce a ...

January 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Amgen Singapore Manufacturing Recognized as one of Singapore’s Employers of Choice

Established five years ago, Amgen Singapore Manufacturing (ASM) has grown its presence and is now recognized a...

January 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NUS discovers personalised tool to detect cancer

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has discovered a new personalised tool to detect c...

January 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops antibody therapeutics for fibrotic and inflammatory Diseases

The breakthrough discovery of investigational therapies for multiple human diseases by a team of Singapore clinicians, c...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
NUS develops reusable sweat pH monitor

Sweat, which contains a wide range of biochemical markers, can tell us a lot about our health. Variations in sweat pH (i...

January 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
BI partners with Enleofen to develop fibrotic disease therapies

Boehringer Ingelheim and Singapore based Enleofen Bio Pte. Ltd. (Enleofen) have announced the acquisition of worldwide e...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
NTU, SERI to develop advanced ocular imaging technologies

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), and the Singapore...

January 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
CAREhab and SRMS join forces in Singapore to elevate Asia’s Healthcare Industry

Asia’s annual premier healthcare platform, CAREhab, an event dedicated to facilitating conversations and new colla...

January 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Hummingbird Publishes Preclinical efficacy of HMBD-001 in HER3 driven Cancers

Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotherapeutics company pioneering the discovery and development of new breakthrou...

January 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News