Boom or Bust for Asian Healthcare?

Being the largest pharma market hub and the land of innovative therapeutics, Asian countries have always been leading th...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | Analysis
NZ discovers link between high blood pressure and diabetes

Scientists at the universities of Auckland and Bristol are preparing to test a novel medication on patients with a poten...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer risk in Asian populations

A team of researchers led by University of Nottingham Malaysia and Cancer Research Malaysia has developed ...

February 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Eastern Asia's lung cancer incidence and mortality highest in world: Study

Lung cancer is the most common cancer and the most common cause of cancer death in Hong Kong. Researchers from The Chine...

January 28, 2022 | Friday | News
NFID urges action to reduce burden of respiratory syncytial virus

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has issued a Call to Action urging stronger public health focus a...

January 28, 2022 | Friday | News
Intellect closes $10M Series A to scale mental healthcare across Asia

Asia’s largest and fastest-growing mental health startup, Intellect, announced the closing of $10 million in Serie...

January 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves VYVGART for treatment of generalised Myasthenia Gravis

Netherlands-based argenx SE has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved ...

January 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore finds link between hearing, vision loss and mortality

A team from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has found that pe...

January 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore enhances support to people with disabilities

The Seniors’ Mobility and Enabling Fund (SMF) and Assistive Technology Fund (ATF) in Singapore will be enhanced to...

January 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Seoul Semiconductor shows myopia improvement using 'SunLike Lighting'

South Korea-based Seoul Semiconductor has confirmed SunLike lighting’s effect on improving myopia, along with...

January 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia invests $44 M to expand health and medical research capability

The Australian government is investing in the future competitiveness of Australian health and medical research with more...

January 12, 2022 | Wednesday | News
China proposes action plan to focus on disability prevention

China is planning to strengthen disability prevention efforts by promoting premarital healthcare and healthy lifestyles,...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Mental health clinical trials receive funding worth $14.8 M in Australia

Seven clinical trials testing the use of potential breakthrough combination therapies to treat debilitating mental illne...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
China approves Yiling Pharma's patent depression-resolving drug

Yiling Pharmaceutical's depression-resolving and restlessness-relieving capsules have been approved for marketing via th...

December 24, 2021 | Friday | News
China introduces whole course management system for osteoporosis patients

Ping An Healthcare and Technology Company has entered into a strategic partnership with a leading Japanese pharmaceutica...

December 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia using ‘manikin' to track COVID-19 within indoor spaces

Using a breathing manikin (one of a kind in Australia), together with an inert, traceable gas that simulated SARS-CoV-2 ...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore establishes pancreas transplantation service as national programme

With the approval by the Ministry of Health (Singapore) for the pancreas transplantation service as a national programme...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
5G Smart Hospital launches in Thailand

Thailand Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Siriraj Hospital, and Huawei Tech...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia invests $23.7 M to boost preventative health

Twenty-one health groups across Australia will share $23.7 million over three years thanks to the Australian Government&...

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Asian audiences are consuming more content related to digital health tech: Report

According to over 40 health editors and journalists across four continents, health reporting will change permanently, bu...

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia links antidepressants with post-surgery delirium

Older people taking a medicine used to treat anxiety and insomnia – nitrazepam – as well as those on antidep...

December 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
New study highlights Thailand's response to NCDs

A study looking at the UN Thematic Working Group on Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Prevention and Control (TWG) in Tha...

December 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia announces $50 M investment for HIV and blood borne viruses

The Australian government marked World AIDS Day on 1 December by announcing over $50 million in new funding to extend ac...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Reality of universal cancer prevention & cure

Oncology treatment has come a long way since the advent of chemotherapy in the 1940s. There have been tremendous advance...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | Analysis
New study in Singapore provides fundamentals of memory formation

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that the little-known CA2 hippocampal, a small...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News