Accuron MedTech rebrands to Advanced MedTech

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Apr, 2019

Accuron MedTech Group, Southeast Asia's largest medical device business, has announced the change of its corporate name to Advanced MedTech Holdings. The rebranding strategy reflects the co...Read more

War on Cancer Asia explores the growth of patient advocacy

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2019

Held at One Farrer Hotel Singapore, the event brought together more than 150 speakers and delegates from both private and public health sectors to discuss the implications of National Cance...Read more

Duke-NUS study reveals new treatment option for liver cancer

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2019

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Lion TCR have demonstrated that they were able to engineer HBV-specific T cells, a type of immune cells found ...Read more

Farrer Park Hospital implants world’s smallest pacemaker

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Mar, 2019

Farrer Park Hospital (FPH), Singapore's newest private healthcare service provider, successfully implanted the world's smallest pacemaker, the Medtronic Micra® Transcatheter Pacing Syst...Read more

Duke-NUS study shows promise for heart muscle regeneration

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 25 Mar, 2019

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have developed an approach to regenerate heart muscle using stem cells. Their method for priming stem cells to become heart tissues could ...Read more

Hyphens Pharma inks MoU with A*STAR for Derma research

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2019

Hyphens is currently licensing sugar-based surfactant micro-emulsions technology from A*STAR’s Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES). By leveraging A*STAR’s res...Read more

NUS researchers develop self-healing electronic skin

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2019

Scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like jellyfish to create an electronic skin with similar functionality. Just lik...Read more

Phar-East gathers over 700 Pharma & Biotech players across Asia

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Mar, 2019

On 18- 20 March 2019 after a successful 2018 debut, Phar-East once again brought together experts from Asian pharma & biotechs, big pharma, regulators, payers, technology innovators and...Read more

SPAG makes strategic move in SE Asia

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Mar, 2019

Headquartered in Singapore, healthcare communications firm, SPAG (A Strategic Partners Group enterprise), has appointed Priyanka Bajpai as New Business Development Head. SPAG has an existin...Read more

ConnectedLife partners with Ocean Protocol to purge Parkinson's Disease

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Mar, 2019

ConnectedLife and Ocean Protocol announce their partnership to advance Parkinson's Disease (PD) diagnosis and treatment with safe sharing of patient-generated data. By combining Internet o...Read more

Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge picks top 3 finalists

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Mar, 2019

Three finalists in Singapore were announced today in the Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge (“Challenge”), jointly launched by Alipay, the world’s leading p...Read more

CXA Group raises $25M for APAC expansion

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Mar, 2019

CXA Group, Asia's one-stop, predictive and data intelligence platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices, has announced that it has raised US$25 million in its latest round of f...Read more

Sleep deprived Singaporeans may prone to serious health issues: Survey

Singapore |  Analysis | 0 Comment | 14 Mar, 2019

Singaporeans are among the world’s worst sleepers, getting just 6.3 hours of sleep on the weekdays and 6.7 on the weekend, lower than the global average of 6.8 and 7.8 hours respectiv...Read more

Lucence Diagnostics to develop AI tools for treating liver cancer

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Mar, 2019

Lucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine company focused on personalizing cancer care, has announced a new project to develop AI algorithms for improving diagnosis and treatment of liver can...Read more

ASLAN signs news commercialisation agreement with BioGenetics

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Mar, 2019

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for global markets, and BioGenetics Co Ltd, a leading South Korean healthcar...Read more

Advent Access to join Stanford StartX community

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Mar, 2019

Advent Access (Advent), one of Singapore’s most innovative medtech companies, has announced that it has been selected by StartX to be part of its 2019 Spring cohort. StartX is an educ...Read more

Singaporeans, Thais suffer from MGD symptoms regularly unaware of risk

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Mar, 2019

A new survey conducted by Johnson & Johnson Vision has revealed that a majority of Singaporeans (70%) and Thais (77%) regularly suffer from symptoms of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD)...Read more

Duke-NUS team reveals unknown mechanisms of zika infection

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2019

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School and their colleagues have identified a surprising interaction between dengue and Zika viruses that sheds lights on the significant fetal brain abnorma...Read more