NUS scientists design blood test to detect Alzheimer's

Doctors may one day be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of severe dementia, and mo...

June 26, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Thunes Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Thunes (previously TransferTo), a B2B global payments platform for emerging markets, on 25 June 2019, announced KB ...

June 25, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Singapore HSA approves Vosevi to treat Chronic Hepatitis C Virus

Gilead Sciences, Inc., on 24 June 2019, announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HAS) has approved Vosevi...

June 25, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Prestige Biopharma reports Ph III results for Tuznue

Prestige BioPharma has announced positive top-line results from a Phase III global clinical trial (Troika) evaluati...

June 24, 2019 | Monday | News
Novena Global Lifecare to expand Asia footprint

Novena Global Lifecare, an integrated healthcare platform in over 250 clinics and sales locations and one of the largest...

June 24, 2019 | Monday | News
SingHealth receives $40M for further medical research

SingHealth,  the largest public healthcare cluster in Singapore, has received a $40 million gift from Ngee Ann...

June 21, 2019 | Friday | News
Dormant Neural Stem Cells in fruit flies activate to generate new brain cells

A new research study by Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, on 18 June 2019, describes the process of activation and gen...

June 19, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NTU researchers reveal inconsistency in eczema apps management

A third (34 per cent) of eczema management mobile applications provide information that does not agree with internationa...

June 18, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Zuellig Pharma acquires health tech startup Klinify

Zuellig Pharma has acquired Singapore-based Healthtech start-up Klinify, to support the development of technology that e...

June 17, 2019 | Monday | News
Tessa Therapeutics, CSGKC form landmark $120 M Joint Venture

Tessa Therapeutics (Tessa), a clinical-stage cell therapy company focused on the development of autologous and allogenei...

June 14, 2019 | Friday | News
FedEx Express Launches Industry-Leading Cold Chain Shipping Solution in Asia Pacific

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world's largest express transportation company, on 10 June 2019, has ...

June 11, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Proteona launches novel assay for CART cell characterization

Singapore based Proteona Pte. Ltd., on 10 June 2019, announced the launch of its latest ESCAPE™ proteogenomics ass...

June 13, 2019 | Thursday | News
TauRx gets recognition as a Technology Innovation Leader

Singapore headquartered TauRx, a leader in neurodegenerative disease research, received the Frost & Sullivan's 2019 ...

June 11, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS researchers uncover promising cancer target for liposarcoma

A study conducted by a team of researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the Nationa...

June 7, 2019 | Friday | News
"We have an active M&A pipeline to accelerate growth"

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, first established its presence in Sing...

June 6, 2019 | Thursday | Opinion
NTU team explore binding secrets of superglue protein

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have pinpointed how a special class of plant...

June 6, 2019 | Thursday | News
Genecare, Jupiter Chain to release secure genetic profiling platform

Genetics testing is the core of preventive healthcare. Clients must first understand their genetic makeup to lower the r...

June 4, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Aslan Pharmaceuticals amends license agreement with CSL

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused Biopharma Company, announced that it has amended...

June 3, 2019 | Monday | News
Leader in organic functional materials receives recognition

Professor Liu Bin, Head of NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the 2019 American Chemical S...

May 30, 2019 | Thursday | News
Alliance Healthcare Group Limited Draws Positive Response from Investors

Alliance Healthcare Group Limited (“Alliance Healthcare”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Gro...

May 30, 2019 | Thursday | News
Empowering Asia’s HealthTech Innovators of Tomorrow

Singapore Biodesign organised a special investor forum on 30 May 2019 in Singapore, featuring heavyweight investors...

May 31, 2019 | Friday | News
Signalling protein may unleash the potential of drug-based therapies to treat hyperparathyroidism

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore have discovered “Sema3d”, a signalling protein that appear...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Vivant launches ‘Nyra’ app on World Menstrual Hygiene Day

Vivant, the digital health technology start-up has announced the launch of ‘Nyra’, a simple mobile applicati...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
EMA accepts Prestige Biopharma's MAA for review

Prestige BioPharma has announced that European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated and accepted for review the Mar...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Stroke Support Station opens second stroke wellness centre

Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and largest cause of long-term physical disability. In Singapore, there ...

May 29, 2019 | Wednesday | News
BP Batam Hospital, dClinic set up Healthcare Blockchain solution

Batam and dClinic partners to lead Healthcare Blockchain technology by bringing together a significant number of gl...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
A Nutrition Pathway to Stamp out the Start of Cancer

In a landmark study, scientists at the Agency of Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of S...

May 27, 2019 | Monday | News
Calecim to expand skin care products in APAC region

CALECIM® Cosmeceuticals (CALECIM®), a wholly owned subsidiary of biotechnology company CellResearch Corporation ...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Translational research led by Singapore scientists uncovers new treatment for fatty liver disease

A team of researchers at Singapore that deactivating a specific protein − interleukin 11 (IL11) – with drugs...

May 24, 2019 | Friday | News
Sealed Air opens temperature assurance lab in Singapore

Sealed Air Corporation announced the opening of a temperature assurance lab in Singapore on May 22, 2019, to support gro...

May 23, 2019 | Thursday | News
Sealed Air Opens Singapore Lab to Provide Thermal Package Design and Testing to the Region’s Life Sciences

Sealed Air Corporation announced the opening of a temperature assurance lab in Singapore on May 22, 2019, to support gro...

May 22, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Farrer Park Hospital introduces robotic surgery for hip, knee replacement

Farrer Park Hospital Singapore is the only private hospital in Singapore that implements Makoplasty Robotic-Ar...

May 20, 2019 | Monday | News
Varian partners with Proton Therapy

Varian announced its partnership with Proton Therapy Pte., Ltd, the completion of the cyclotron installation for the Var...

May 14, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN signs agreement with Korean Gastric Cancer group

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a Singapore based clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused biopharma company, has signed an...

May 13, 2019 | Monday | News
MOH confirms imported case of MonkeyPox in Singapore

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore. The patient is a 38-ye...

May 10, 2019 | Friday | News
PerkinElmer opens new manufacturing facility in Singapore

  PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the opening of a...

May 10, 2019 | Friday | News
Evolve BioSystems launches Evivo in Hong Kong, Singapore

Evolve BioSystems, makers of Evivo® baby probiotic, announced that its flagship consumer product Evivo is ...

May 7, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NCCS reveals potential of a new genomic test in diagnosing prostate cancer

A novel study by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Canada’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, has fou...

May 7, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Tessa Therapeutics, Baylor College of Medicine present results for the treatment of HER2-positive solid tumors

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage cell therapy company focused on autologous and allogeneic therapies for a wide rang...

May 3, 2019 | Friday | News
New chemical probe for visualising brain immune cells

Researchers in South Korea and Singapore have, for the first time, have developed a chemical probe that enables live-ima...

May 3, 2019 | Friday | News
A*Star signs $90M deal to drive healthcare innovations

Aptorum Group Limited, Aeneas Capital Limited, and A*ccelerate Technologies Pte Ltd, the enterprise office of the Agency...

May 1, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Duke-NUS team reveals link between autism and antidepressants

An international team led by Duke-NUS Medical School has found a potential link between autistic-like behaviour in adult...

April 30, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN reports Q1 2019 financial results

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage oncology and immunology focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel thera...

April 29, 2019 | Monday | News
NCCS raises awareness about hereditary conditions

Jeans For Genes, the international campaign to raise awareness about hereditary conditions, has made its debut in Singap...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
BD launches patient safety programme PRIME in Asia

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a largest global medical technology company in the world, has launched a new patient...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Pharmaceutical and Biotech sectors to drive investments in the APAC Healthcare Industry, predicts Frost & Sullivan

The higher demand for services and improved quality of care has been attracting significant global investments to the&nb...

April 25, 2019 | Thursday | News
A*Star, NEA & NCID develop diagnostic test for mosquito-borne diseases

Scientists from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Environmenta...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR & Duke-NUS unveils the map to design treatment for dengue and zika viruses

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

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NUS researchers find new biomarkers associated with chemobrain

Cognitive impairment associated with cancer, also known as “chemobrain”, has gained recognition as a complic...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Biotech startup RWDC raises $22 M in A3 round

RWDC Industries Ltd, a Singapore-based biotech start-up, has announced that it has raised US$22 million i...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NTU researchers link bronchiectasis with allergy

An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that patient...

April 22, 2019 | Monday | News
Tessa Therapeutics collaborates with MSD to treat Cervical Cancer

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on autologous and off-the-shelf, allogeneic therapies...

April 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Insilico opens office in Singapore to expand biz in Asia

Insilico Biotechnology AG announces the opening of a representation in Singapore to develop its business in the Asia-Pac...

April 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS provides new insights into neuronal behaviour

Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan and undergraduate student Karen Pang, PhD student Mahima Sharma, post-doctoral fellow Dr. Krishn...

April 11, 2019 | Thursday | News
New partnerships reinforce Novena Global Lifecare as medical aesthetics leader

Novena Global Lifecare, an integrated healthcare platform and one of the largest aesthetic healthcare players in the wor...

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Novena Global Healthcare makes strategic recruitment for global expansion

Novena Global Lifecare, an integrated healthcare platform in over 250 locations and one of the largest aesthetic healthc...

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
AUM Biosciences wins APAC Biotech Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award 2019

Singapore-headquartered AUM Biosciences has been honored with the 2019 Asia-Pacific Biotech  Entrepreneurial Compan...

April 9, 2019 | Tuesday | News
George Clinical establishes new presence in Singapore

George Clinical, a global scientifically backed clinical research organization, (CRO) has expanded its footprint in ...

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Everstone to sell controlling stake in Rubicon Research

Everstone is a premier investment group focused on India and South East Asia. Everstone Group’s Singapore fund, wi...

April 8, 2019 | Monday | News
Smartfuture launches Health Kit rental service

Smartfuture has recently launched its Smart Health Kit rental service. The rental service is priced at just $100&nb...

April 8, 2019 | Monday | News
Singapore’s war on Diabetes has a new ally

A cause as big as the War on Diabetes 6 needs every help it can get - a new ally joins the fight, as Abbott announces th...

April 5, 2019 | Friday | News
A ray of hope for organ transplant patients

The holy grail of organ transplantation is getting the recipient’s immune system to accept the transplanted organ....

April 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS researchers win top accolades at NMRC Awards

Duke-NUS researchers Professor Karl Tryggvason, Professor David M. Virshup and Professor Antonio Bertoletti were awarded...

April 5, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore recalls 3 brands of Losartan medicines

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has recalled three brands of high blood pressure medicine which contain...

April 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Accuron MedTech rebrands to Advanced MedTech

Accuron MedTech Group, Southeast Asia's largest medical device business, has announced the change of its corporate name ...

April 1, 2019 | Monday | News
War on Cancer Asia explores the growth of patient advocacy

Held at One Farrer Hotel Singapore, the event brought together more than 150 speakers and delegates from both private an...

March 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Duke-NUS study reveals new treatment option for liver cancer

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Lion TCR have demonstrated that they were...

March 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Farrer Park Hospital implants world’s smallest pacemaker

Farrer Park Hospital (FPH), Singapore's newest private healthcare service provider, successfully implanted the world's s...

March 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS study shows promise for heart muscle regeneration

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have developed an approach to regenerate heart muscle using stem cell...

March 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Hyphens Pharma inks MoU with A*STAR for Derma research

Hyphens is currently licensing sugar-based surfactant micro-emulsions technology from A*STAR’s Institute of Chemic...

March 22, 2019 | Friday | News
NUS researchers develop self-healing electronic skin

Scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like jellyfi...

March 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Phar-East gathers over 700 Pharma & Biotech players across Asia

On 18- 20 March 2019 after a successful 2018 debut, Phar-East once again brought together experts from Asian pharma &...

March 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
SPAG makes strategic move in SE Asia

Headquartered in Singapore, healthcare communications firm, SPAG (A Strategic Partners Group enterprise), has appointed ...

March 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ConnectedLife partners with Ocean Protocol to purge Parkinson's Disease

ConnectedLife and Ocean Protocol announce their partnership to advance Parkinson's Disease (PD) diagnosis and treatment ...

March 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge picks top 3 finalists

Three finalists in Singapore were announced today in the Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge (“Chall...

March 15, 2019 | Friday | News
CXA Group raises $25M for APAC expansion

CXA Group, Asia's one-stop, predictive and data intelligence platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices, ha...

March 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Sleep deprived Singaporeans may prone to serious health issues: Survey

Singaporeans are among the world’s worst sleepers, getting just 6.3 hours of sleep on the weekdays and 6.7 on the ...

March 14, 2019 | Thursday | Analysis
Lucence Diagnostics to develop AI tools for treating liver cancer

Lucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine company focused on personalizing cancer care, has announced a new project to dev...

March 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN signs news commercialisation agreement with BioGenetics

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for glo...

March 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Advent Access to join Stanford StartX community

Advent Access (Advent), one of Singapore’s most innovative medtech companies, has announced that it has been selec...

March 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Singaporeans, Thais suffer from MGD symptoms regularly unaware of risk

A new survey conducted by Johnson & Johnson Vision has revealed that a majority of Singaporeans (70%) and Thais (77%...

March 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS team reveals unknown mechanisms of zika infection

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School and their colleagues have identified a surprising interaction between dengue and ...

March 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Only 37% of Women receive critical cancer tests, finds a survey

The substantial majority of women in Singapore are failing to undertake critical cancer screening tests, according to a ...

March 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Smartfuture introduces Teleconsultation and Marketplace

Smartfuture has recently announced the latest features to the Medcheck App - Teleconsultation and Marketplace. With thes...

March 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Omron Healthcare, iAPPS to provide health management serivces

OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd. and iAPPS Pte. Ltd. have announced the establishment of HeartVoice Pte. Ltd., a joint venture...

March 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Tessa Therapeutics names Jeffrey H. Buchalter to Board of Directors

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on autologous and off-the-shelf, allogeneic therapies...

March 1, 2019 | Friday | News
SCS, NCCS join hands to lead the fight against cancer

Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) and the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) have inked a partnership that will provid...

February 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ASLAN pharma to partner with Biogenetics

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for glo...

February 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
SUSS signs two MOUs to help the elderly and their caregivers

The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) to collab...

February 25, 2019 | Monday | News
MSIWF puts focus on improving elderly welfare

The spotlight was cast on the elderly and their caregivers as the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation (“M...

February 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Doctor Anywhere unveils in-app marketplace

Doctor Anywhere, a tech-led healthcare company, has launched Marketplace, an in-app e-commerce platform specially curate...

February 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Medix CEO Applauds Government’s ‘Merdeka Package’

Sigal Atzmon, CEO of global medical case management company Medix, applauded the government's ‘Merdeka Generation ...

February 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Duke-NUS researchers link sleep schedule with cognition, glucose levels

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore have demonstrated for the first time that different sleep schedules wi...

February 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Dr James Allison & Dr Padmanee Sharma join Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience, a systems-biology enabled biotech company focused on the discovery and development of cancer the...

February 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
New breast cancer drug for women in Singapore

A NEW breast cancer drug shown to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence is being made available to women in...

February 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NCCS , Lucence predict immunotherapy response for kidney cancer

Immunotherapy drugs such as PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors represent the front-line treatment for kidney cancer. But immuno...

February 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Singapore researchers reveal role of anti-parasitic drug in treating cancer

Scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have discovered that niclosamide, an FDA-a...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Temasek invests Rs 270 Cr in Dr Agarwal Group

Indian Eye hospital, Dr. Agarwal’s Healthcare Ltd. (DAHCL) has raised Rs. 270 crore investment from Temasek, a glo...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore Health Sciences Authority approves Biktarvy to treat HIV-1

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority has approved Biktarvy® (bictegravir...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Novartis to unite with tech startups to bring healthcare transformation

Novartis is on a mission to transform healthcare in Asia by partnering with the health tech ecosystem.  ...

February 14, 2019 | Thursday | News