Women Achievers spl: Ms Myra Eskes: Improving lives in moments that matter

Myra Eskes is President & CEO at GE Healthcare Southeast Asia. She is a senior executive with over twenty years of g...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | Opinion
Women Achievers spl: Ms Arleen Paulino: Prioritizing competing demands

Ms Arleen Paulino has been in the biotechnology industry for the past 25 years, most of which has been between pure R&am...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | Opinion
Icon SOC inks three-year partnership with Singapore Cancer Society

In abid to further extend cancer care and better support patients and families affected by the disease, Icon SOC, a canc...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Thomson Medical launches health programme

Thomson Medical, a private healthcare group known for its women's and children's services, has launched a loyalty progra...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | News
SCIEX and NUS Faculty of Science announce plans to launch new training centre

Global leader in life science analytical technologies, SCIEX and the Protein and Proteomics Centre (PPC) under...

November 24, 2017 | Friday | News
NUS researchers develop a revolutionary way of healthcare monitoring

A research team from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a soft, flexible and stretchable microfiber se...

November 24, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore introduces a tech tool for medical students

A new program called MediSIM will soon be introduced for medical students, to learn about the human anatomy without caus...

November 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Engineers at NUS develop a microfibre sensor

A team of engineers from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a soft, flexible and stretchable microfibe...

November 17, 2017 | Friday | News
A revolutionary leap of scientist to treat fibrotic diseases

Scientists at Duke-NUS and National Heart Centre Singapore, make a breakthrough discovery and show that the critical pro...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Four researchers awarded S'pore's highest accolade in Science & Technology

Singapore – Four individuals have been awarded this year’s President’s Science and Technology Awa...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore researchers develop self-illuminating nanoagents

A research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have created polymer nanoagents that can 'light up' t...

November 13, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore’s National Cancer Centre partners with immunoSCAPE to improve cancer treatments

To enhance research on current cancer therapies and search for new treatments, the National Cancer Center for Singapore ...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Ministry makes NEHR mandatory in Singapore

The Ministry of Health (MOH) intends to make it compulsory for all healthcare providers to upload data to the National E...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
S3 launches programme for stroke survivors

A brain health and memory training programme is being rolled out by a charity organisation called Stroke Support Station...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore offers a new tele-consult app for patients

A new app has been recently launched in Singapore that allows patients to book appointments with doctors, and have round...

October 26, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore grants patent to Suven for neuro molecule

Suven Life Sciences Ltd. has been granted a product patent from Singapore for the New Chemical Entities (NCEs) dealing w...

October 19, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore conducts research on asthma and COPD

A team of clinicians and researchers from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) and pharmaceutical firm ...

October 18, 2017 | Wednesday | News
AbbVie open biologics plant in Singapore

Global research and development-based bio pharmaceutical company AbbVie is expanding the capabilities of its Singapore o...

October 10, 2017 | Tuesday | News
New drug approved for fighting cholesterol

A newly-developed drug which has recently been approved for use in Singapore may aid in the fight against cholesterol. ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New R&D centre in Singapore to work on effective tools for predicting lifespans

The National Healthcare Group (NHG), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Dover Park Hospice are working together ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Orion Health joins hand with Singapore’s IHiS

New Zealand health software developer Orion Health will deliver its Healthcare Enterprise Service bus interoperability s...

September 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
MyDoc receives investment from UST Global

UST Global has made a strategic investment in MyDoc, a Singapore-based digital health platform company, to expand its di...

September 15, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore leads the world in progress toward the health Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Singapore- Singapore is closer than any other country in the world to achieving the health-related Sustainable Developme...

September 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Pips program to give pharma sector a huge boost

To provide further boost to Singapore’s pharma sector the country’s Minister for Trade and Industry (Industr...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore to boost community care sector

The Ministry of Health will inject close to S$12 million over the next four years into the community care sector to attr...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore appoints the first Chief Health Scientist

National University of Singapore (NUS) President Tan Chorh Chuan is to be appointed the first Chief Health Scientist by ...

September 5, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Funds arranged for clinical research co-ordinators

Health Ministry (MOH) Singapore is setting aside $35 million to help groom clinical research coordinators. When new medi...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore biotech startup focuses on fibrosis research

Research into key drivers of fibrosis will be used by a Singapore-funded biotechnology start-up, Enleofen Bio, to possib...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Novena campus by LKCMedicine opens up

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) officially opened its Novena Campus and has become fully operational...

August 28, 2017 | Monday | News
Novena Global Lifecare goes for US$150m Taiwan IPO

Novena Global Lifecare Group plans to list on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and raise US$150 million (S$203.7 million) for i...

July 31, 2017 | Monday | News
GIS introduces customized cancer treatment

The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has launched a new laboratory that will help provide customised, cutting-edge tr...

July 25, 2017 | Tuesday | News
NUS launches additive manufacturing facilities for biomedical applications

The National University of Singapore Centre for Additive Manufacturing (or AM.NUS) was launched by Mr Amrin Amin, Parlia...

July 21, 2017 | Friday | News
Subra Suresh named as NTU President

Subra Suresh, an eminent Indian- origin scientist in the US has been named as the President of Singapore's prestigious N...

July 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Philips and SAM to open oncology center in Singapore

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and the Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine Holdings (SAM) ann...

July 7, 2017 | Friday | News
First dedicated iron clinic opens in Singapore

Singapore –Approximately 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 adults over the age of 55 in Singapore suffer from iron deficienc...

June 16, 2017 | Friday | News
Liver Cancer Awareness Event by Bayer Highlights the Severity of its Incidence

LIVER CANCER is the second most leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide and has an incidence of approximately 8...

June 19, 2017 | Monday | Analysis
Novel way to track dengue infection

A team from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has found a new use for an 'old' tec...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
3D heart tissue created for drug testing

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of A*STAR Singapore have engineered a three-dimensiona...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
MOH to ramp up use of apps, robotics to improve home care

Gan Kim Yong, health minister, Singapore recently announced that by the end of the year, all Singaporeans can use a new ...

May 30, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Device for quick, effective treatment of common hearing disorder

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel handheld device, known as CL...

May 26, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore pioneers use of Smart Health TeleRehab

As part of Singapore's Smart Nation Initiative, the city-state will be rolling out the use of Smart Health TeleRehab. T...

May 12, 2017 | Friday | News
World's first full body biometric authentication technology announced

RAM Group, Singaporean based technology firm, has announced a new breakthrough in biometric authentication based on a no...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
Profit climb for RMG in first quarter

RAFFLES Medical Group recorded S$15.5 million net profit in its first quarter, up 0.1 per cent from the same period a ye...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
mClinica raises $6.3M to map healthcare data in Southeast Asia

Singapore-based startup mClinica has announced a $6.3 million Series A raise. mClinica was founded in 2012 and its missi...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
NUS launches a risk predicting calculator

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a web-based tool that predicts a patient&rsqu...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore Press Holdings buys nursing home provider for S$164m

Singapore Press Holdings is entering the healthcare sector as it acquires Orange Valley (OV) Healthcare Pte. Ltd, an ope...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
Holmusk collaborates with Singapore to manage cardio diseases

Singapore: Holmusk, a global digital health and data analytics company, has embarked on a three-year partnership with Na...

April 6, 2017 | Thursday | News
ASEAN Pharma Packaging Conference concludes in Singapore

Singapore: ASEAN Pharma Packaging Conference, APPCON 2017, was concluded in Singapore on 16th and 17th March 2017, with ...

March 27, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore strengthens digital health innovation

Singapore: Singapore-based EDBI and Royal Philips aim to accelerate their joint investment alliance and partner with mor...

March 7, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Vela Genomics launches solution for NGS clinical interpretation and reporting

Singapore: Vela Genomics, a subsidiary of Vela Diagnostics, has launched TheraKey to provide accurate Next-Generation Se...

March 7, 2017 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN collaborates with CSI, NCIS to investigate lead cancer compound

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targeted agents fo...

March 2, 2017 | Thursday | News
"REVIVE is a daily supplement to combat age-related cognitive decline"

What is the current scenario when it comes to awareness about brain health? Does brain health earn the same attention in...

March 2, 2017 | Thursday | Influencers
Zuellig Pharma launches new innovation in center in Singapore

Singapore: Zuellig Pharma, a leading healthcare service provider, recently launched its first innovation centre, Zuellig...

April 7, 2017 | Friday | News
Mundipharma expands oncology portfolio

Singapore: Mundipharma and Helsinn Group have expanded their collaboration, signing amendments to licensing and distribu...

February 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
Novogene, AITbiotech to establish new whole genome sequencing centre at Singapore

Singapore: With a view to provide further booat to the genomics sector Novogene, AIT Biotech and Genome Institute of Sin...

December 9, 2016 | Friday | News
"Smart healthcare can be enabled through collaboration of all stake holders"

What have been the achievements of APACMed in the past one year? APACMed has entered its second year and has been getti...

November 22, 2016 | Tuesday | Influencers
Chugai strengthens investment in Singapore

Singapore: Chugai Pharmaceutical's research centre for therapeutic antibodies, Chugai Pharmabody Research (CPR), has com...

November 18, 2016 | Friday | News
Value-based healthcare will optimise health initiatives'

IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a research driven entity that provides key policy setters and decision makers ...

November 15, 2016 | Tuesday | Influencers
NUS scientists discover the switch that makes breast cancer cells aggressive

Singapore: A team of scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) has established novel insights into the rel...

November 2, 2016 | Wednesday | News
"Prevalence of COPD in Asia is similar to western countries"

GlaxoSmithKline and biopharmaceutical company, Innoviva, have concluded Salford Lung Study (SLS), a Phase IIIb multi-cen...

October 27, 2016 | Thursday | Influencers
ICH GCP Guidelines Amendments (R2) 2016

The International Conference on Harmonization of Good Clinical Practice Guidelines, also known as ICH GCP, must be adher...

October 21, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
Point of Care technology to combat diabetes

  It's been widely recognized that biomedical research has an impact that could affect millions both locally and globa...

October 21, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
Singapore develops oral-anti-diabetic drug

Singapore: Singapore has completed phase I clinical trial of an oral-anti-diabetic drug developed by Department of Pharm...

October 21, 2016 | Friday | News
GSK launches OTC allergy drug Zyrtec-R

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline has launched Zyrtec-R Tablet over-the-counter (OTC medicine) that replaces Zyrtec, allowing c...

October 19, 2016 | Wednesday | News
DHL invests SGD 140mn in Singapore

Singapore: DHL Express has launched S$140 million (€85 million) DHL South Asia Hub, a 24-hour express hub facility...

October 18, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Asia Pacific MedTech Forum concludes in Singapore

Asia Pacific has huge potential to drive smart healthcare market but the region has its own challenges, remarked Dr. Axe...

November 15, 2016 | Tuesday | News
"We are looking to collaborate with visionary research institutes to develop new methods of discovering cancer"

Singapore: Waters Corporation recently collaborated with Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute ...

October 4, 2016 | Tuesday | Influencers
Neem may reduce prostate tumour: NUS Study

Singapore: A team of international researchers led by Associate Professor Gautam Sethi from the Department of Pharmacolo...

October 3, 2016 | Monday | News
Pharma logistics call for integrated approach

Dubai: Pharma cold chain logistics market is estimated to be USD12.6 billion in 2016. Emirates SkyCargo is Dubai's most ...

October 5, 2016 | Wednesday | Analysis
BIOTRONIK plans to invest SGD30 mn in Singapore

Singapore: Germany based developer of cardio and endovascular medical technology, BIOTRONIK, has launched a new manufact...

September 29, 2016 | Thursday | News
Dengue vaccine now available in Mexico

Singapore: Dengvaxia, the dengue vaccine by Sanofi Pasteur, is now available in private healthcare clinics of Mexico for...

September 14, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Scientists at NUS finds RNA's role in gastric cancer

Singapore: A team of researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National Universi...

September 14, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops new protein to alter DNA in living cells

Singapore: Researchers in Singapore have developed a new protein that can alter DNA in living cells with much higher pre...

September 14, 2016 | Wednesday | News
IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics expands in Singapore

Singapore: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics has launched a new branch focused on supporting improved health outc...

September 6, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Asian nations at risk as Singapore scrambles to contain Zika

Singapore: With 151 confirmed cases in Singapore, Zika is clearly wreaking havoc in the Asian nation. According to a joi...

September 2, 2016 | Friday | News
Waters collaborates with A*star to expand biomarker discovery

Singapore: Waters Corporation has collaborated with Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute withi...

June 23, 2016 | Thursday | News
Affymetrix, PathGEN Dx sign deal for pathogen detection kit

Singapore: Affymetrix and PathGEN Dx, a spin-off molecular diagnostics company founded by researchers from the Genome In...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | 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
Curiox cashes in on new bioassay technology

The pharmaceutical industry has been under increasing pressure to deliver drugs to the market faster and more efficientl...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Mundipharma appointed as development and marketing partner for flutiform

Singapore: Mundipharma International Corporation has announced that it has entered into agreements with Skyepharma the e...

January 28, 2016 | Thursday | News
Singapore biomed manufacturing grows in Jan'15

Singapore: Singapore witnessed a growth in biomedical manufacturing output as it expanded by 5.3 percent in January 2015...

February 28, 2015 | Saturday | News
Local medtech companies in every Asian country are welcome to engage with the association'

Singapore: Global medical technology companies came together in April 2015 to form Asia Pacific Medical Technology Assoc...

May 12, 2016 | Thursday | Influencers
Singapore Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains

Singapore: Scientists in Singapore have made a big leap on research on the 'mini-brain'. These advanced mini versions of...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Hummingbird Bioscience, Sanofi to develop novel cancer therapeutics

Singapore: Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotechnology company focused on the discovery and early development of...

April 22, 2016 | Friday | News
Biosensors reports strong sales in Q1 FY12

Singapore: Biosensors International, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative medical devices, has achieved ...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | Company results
PerkinElmer, GIS open research lab to advance precision oncology

Singapore: PerkinElmer and the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a biomedical sciences research institute under Singa...

April 28, 2016 | Thursday | News
There's still time to stop TPP from cutting off critical affordable generic medicines: MSF

Singapore: As representatives from the United States and 11 other Pacific-Rim countries gather in New Zealand to sign th...

February 5, 2016 | Friday | News
Mundipharma's new BETADINE facility to meet regional healthcare challenges

Singapore: Mundipharma has delivered another boost to the City State's booming biomedical sector, announcing a planned 7...

May 13, 2016 | Friday | News
Use of Smartphone Apps for Biomedical Research

Singapore: Mobile apps have invaded almost every aspect of life, yet few are relevant for biomedical experimental resea...

March 7, 2015 | Saturday | Opinion
Cytori, Lorem to commercialize Cytori Cell Therapy

Singapore: US-based Cytori Therapeutics and China-based Lorem Vascular have formed a partnership to commercialize Cytori...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Driving public health impact with vaccines: the past, present and way forward

Living in a time of unprecedented medical interventions, it is difficult to fully appreciate the contribution vaccines h...

May 31, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
Affordable cancer diagnostics wins VolitionRx BioSpectrum award

Driven by the demand for affordable and simple diagnostics, VolitionRx has been focusing on diagnostic tests for cancer ...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Thermo launches single cell analyses platform

Singapore: Thermo Scientific has launched CeLLInsight CX5 High Content Screening (HCS) Platform, a high-content quantita...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
New possibilities for leukaemia immunotherapy

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new class of lipids in the leuka...

June 25, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Amgen to acquire rights of three drugs from GSK

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Amgen, has plans to reacquire all of its remaining rights from GSK on Prolia (...

December 16, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Sir David Lane to chair advisory board of Aslan Pharma

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targeted agents fo...

January 29, 2016 | Friday | News
Scientists use tiniest human protein to heal heart

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IM...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
Mundipharma announces sales and distribution collaboration of ISODINE brand

Singapore: Mundipharma and Shionogi has announced a new exclusive sales collaboration contract for its ISODINE brand in ...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Medtronic opens new APAC HQ in Singapore

Singapore: Global medical technology company, Medtronic, has opened a new Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapor...

May 31, 2016 | Tuesday | News