Everstone to sell controlling stake in Rubicon Research

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Apr, 2019

Everstone is a premier investment group focused on India and South East Asia. Everstone Group’s Singapore fund, will sell its entire stake in Rubicon Research (Rubicon) to a global pr...Read more

Smartfuture launches Health Kit rental service

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Apr, 2019

Smartfuture has recently launched its Smart Health Kit rental service. The rental service is priced at just $100 a month and includes a Health Kit consisting of First Aid Kit, Glu...Read more

Singapore’s war on Diabetes has a new ally

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Apr, 2019

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 the launch of a digital ecosystem of free mobile apps and secure, cloud...Read more

A ray of hope for organ transplant patients

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Apr, 2019

The holy grail of organ transplantation is getting the recipient’s immune system to accept the transplanted organ. Despite an initial period of successful function, between 30% to 40%...Read more

Duke-NUS researchers win top accolades at NMRC Awards

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Apr, 2019

Duke-NUS researchers Professor Karl Tryggvason, Professor David M. Virshup and Professor Antonio Bertoletti were awarded the prestigious Singapore Translational Research (STaR) Investigator...Read more

Singapore recalls 3 brands of Losartan medicines

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Apr, 2019

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has recalled three brands of high blood pressure medicine which contain losartan –Losartas, Losagen and Hyperten, ...Read more

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