Singapore researchers pioneer neural blueprint for human-like intelligence in soft robots

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology’s (SMART) Mens, Manus & Machina (M3S) interd...

February 16, 2026 | Monday | News
Insulet launches automated insulin delivery system in Middle East to transform diabetes care

Insulet Corporation, the global leader in tubeless insulin pump technology with its Omnipod® brand of products, has ...

February 6, 2026 | Friday | News
Japan's Medical Corporation Nasukai forms strategic alliance with Daibi Medical Aesthetics

SBC Medical Group Holdings Incorporated, a global provider of comprehensive consulting and management services to medica...

February 2, 2026 | Monday | News
US-based Hyperfine receives regulatory approval of Swoop® System in India for brain imaging

US-based Hyperfine, Inc., the groundbreaking health technology company that has redefined brain imaging with the fi...

December 18, 2025 | Thursday | News
GE HealthCare and Indonesia’s Ministry of Health expand access to advanced CT scanners

GE HealthCare will supply more than 300 CT (computed tomography) scanners under Indonesia’s Strengthening Indonesi...

December 17, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Aussie medtech startup Ferronova raises $6 M to advance image-guided cancer surgery

Australian startup Ferronova has raised a further $6 million to progress the commercialisation of a novel nano...

December 17, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Olympus triples Venture Capital Fund investment to strengthen MedTech leadership

Japan-based Olympus Corporation has announced an additional commitment to its corporate venture capital fund, ...

December 15, 2025 | Monday | News
China's Cornerstone Robotics secures $200 M in oversubscribed funding

China-based startup Cornerstone Robotics, a leading global innovator in surgical robotics, has announced the closing of ...

November 13, 2025 | Thursday | News
Bulacan leads way with Philippines’ first public-funded MRI facility

In a groundbreaking move for local healthcare, the Province of Bulacan...

November 12, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Kaneka expands global reach with launch of brain aneurysm embolisation coil in Europe

Japan's Kaneka Corporation has begun sales of its i-ED COIL™, a brain aneurysm embolisation coil, in Europe as of ...

November 10, 2025 | Monday | News
Gunze Medical and HistoSonics enter into distribution agreement in Japan for non-invasive ultrasound therapy devices

Gunze Limited has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gunze Medical Limited and US-based HistoSonics, Inc. have ...

October 10, 2025 | Friday | News
Olympus launches SecureFlex, a Single-use fine needle biopsy device

Olympus Corporation (Olympus), a global MedTech company committed to making people’s lives healthier, safer a...

October 6, 2025 | Monday | News
Singapore General Hospital opens CoE for robotic-assisted surgery

Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has announced the launch of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for robotic-assisted surgery, ...

October 3, 2025 | Friday | News
Japan's Olympus launches AI-powered endoscopy in US & Europe markets

Japan-based medtech company Olympus Corporation has announced the commercial launch of its OLYSENSE™&nbs...

September 30, 2025 | Tuesday | News
University of Sydney partners with Siemens Healthineers on $9 M MRI research capability

Australia's University of Sydney has unveiled a $9 million partnership with Siemens Healthineers centred on the opening ...

September 13, 2025 | Saturday | News
New Zealand's MARS Bioimaging to scale-up world-first colour CT imaging system

MARS Bioimaging, a New Zealand-headquartered medical device company specialising in spectral molecular imaging CT s...

September 4, 2025 | Thursday | News
HIRONIC expands presence of aesthetic medical devices in Indonesian market

South Korea-based HIRONIC, a leading provider of aesthetic medical devices, has obtained certification from the Indonesi...

August 27, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Transforming global drug discovery by leveraging scalable AI strategies

Drug discovery has long been an exorbitant and complex endeavor, often requiring more than a decade and billions of doll...

August 26, 2025 | Tuesday | Influencers
New Zealand-based medtech startup Avasa secures funding to proceed with US FDA clearance

Auckland-based medtech startup Avasa has secured the first close of its Pre-Series-A capital raise. The round was l...

August 28, 2025 | Thursday | News
South Korean startup Brightonix Imaging wins US FDA clearance for PHAROS PET scanner

Brightonix Imaging, a South Korea-based startup, has announced that its flagship product, the PHAROS PET Scanner, has re...

August 27, 2025 | Wednesday | News
QT Imaging inks exclusive distribution agreement with Gulf Medical for Saudi Arabia

QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. (QTI), a medical device company engaged in research, development, and commercialisation of inn...

August 26, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Teleflex introduces Barrigel Rectal Spacer in Japan for prostate cancer radiotherapy

US-based Teleflex Incorporated, a leading global provider of medical technologies, has announced that Barrigel rectal sp...

August 20, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Foxconn Technology invests $30 M in Robocore to expand into medical and elderly care robotics market

Robocore Technology Limited (Robocore), a partner company of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP),...

August 20, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's NUHCS leverages advanced aortic care with 3D-printed models

Singapore's NUHCS advances aortic care with personalised preventive treatment using 3D-printed models for patients ...

August 6, 2025 | Wednesday | News
BD to invest $35 M in US facility to expand prefilled flush syringe manufacturing

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced plans to invest more than...

August 5, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong develops first-of-its-kind magnetic microcatheter for rapid treatment of acute ischemic strokes

A cross-disciplinary research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine and Facul...

July 28, 2025 | Monday | News
Thailand approves AI Medical Service's gastric AI-based endoscopic diagnosis support system

AI Medical Service Inc (AIM), a Japan-based medical startup specialising in the development of diagnostic endoscopic AI,...

July 28, 2025 | Monday | News
Japan's Olympus enters strategic partnership to develop endoluminal gastrointestinal robotics

Japan-based medtech company Olympus Corporation has signed a partnership with Revival Healthcare Capital to advance endo...

July 25, 2025 | Friday | News
Malaysia's Straits Orthopaedics expands global footprint with acquisition of US-based Medin Technologies

Straits Orthopaedics (Mfg) Sdn Bhd, a leading Malaysia-based contract manufacturer specialising in the precision machini...

July 25, 2025 | Friday | News
Cornerstone Robotics signs MoU with NHG Health and NTU Singapore

Cornerstone Robotics (CSR), a leading medical innovator in precision surgical systems, has signed a tripartite Memorandu...

July 18, 2025 | Friday | News
Arkema expands its Singapore site to boost polyamide synthesis for eyewear and medical devices

Arkema, the world’s largest integrated factory dedicated to advanced bio-circular materials, located on Jurong Isl...

July 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Israeli startup Restore Medical secures $23 M to advance medical device for heart failure therapy

Restore Medical, a clinical-stage medtech startup based in Israel, developing transcatheter therapies for heart failure,...

July 8, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Johnson & Johnson launches platform to advance atrial fibrillation treatment across Asia-Pacific

Johnson & Johnson MedTech, a global leader in cardiac arrhythmia treatment, has launched VARIPULSE™ Platf...

July 8, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu receives US FDA's premarketing notification for Positive PET system

Japan's Shimadzu Corporation has obtained premarketing notification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for i...

July 7, 2025 | Monday | News
US & Middle East explore setting up world's first-of-their kind Centres for Genome Surgery

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in Abu Dhabi, has announced a l...

July 5, 2025 | Saturday | News
Australia's Monash University to design first-of-its-kind CT scanner

Australia's Monash University will lead the design of a first-of-its-kind mobile CT scanner to bring critical healthcare...

July 7, 2025 | Monday | News
Germany's Covestro launches production of medical-grade thermoplastic polyurethane in Taiwan

German firm Covestro has launched production of its new Desmopan® Rx medical-grade Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) ...

June 27, 2025 | Friday | News
Bangkok Heart Hospital launches next-gen cardiac surgery programme

Bangkok Heart Hospital is ushering in a new era of cardiac innovation with the introduction of two advanced surgical tec...

June 24, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan-based startup Surglasses unveils world's first AI anatomy table

Taiwan-based startup Surglasses Inc. has announced the launch of the Asclepius AI Table, the world's first anatomy table...

June 20, 2025 | Friday | News
Taiwanese startup Brain Navi achieves US FDA approval for neurosurgical robot NaoTrac

Brain Navi Biotechnology, a medical robotics company founded in 2015 in Taiwan by surgeon and serial entrepreneur J...

June 18, 2025 | Wednesday | News
SDP Japan raises $31 M to rollout advanced surgical care models

Healthcare startup SDP Japan, Inc. has raised approximately JPY 4.5 billion (equivalent to $31 million) t...

June 16, 2025 | Monday | News
US medtech firm Foldax secures approval for TRIA Mitral Heart Valve in India

US-based Foldax® Inc., a leader in heart valve innovation, has announced that the Indian Central Drugs Standard Cont...

June 5, 2025 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong introduces cutting-edge technology to revolutionise brain health

Humansa, Asia's leading health and longevity center, has announced the launch of its ground-breaking BrainSpark Programm...

May 29, 2025 | Thursday | News
Japan's Olympus announces US FDA clearance of its most advanced imaging endoscopes

Olympus, a Japan-headquartered medical technology company, has announced the US FDA 510(k) clearance of its EZ1500 serie...

May 28, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Indonesia gives regulatory approval to China's Zylox Unicorn vascular closure device

China-based Zylox-Tonbridge Medical Technology Co. has announced that its proprietary Zylox Unicorn Vascular Closure Dev...

May 27, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Ubitus collaborates with MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taiwan for AI-powered multi-modal medical robots

Japan-based Ubitus, a global leader in cloud streaming and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, has announced its col...

May 22, 2025 | Thursday | News
Medtronic announces intent to separate diabetes business

Ireland-headquartered Medtronic plc, a global leader in healthcare technology, has announced its intent to separate its ...

May 22, 2025 | Thursday | News
Korea's MediThinQ enters China for deploying wearable surgical displays in operating theatres

MediThinQ, the South Korean startup specialising in wearable extended reality (XR) surgical displays, has announced a st...

May 21, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Oliver Healthcare expands APAC footprint with advanced medical packaging facility in Malaysia

Oliver Healthcare Packaging (“Oliver”), a leading healthcare company driving quality and innovation in medic...

May 15, 2025 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong launches world’s first AI-powered clinic for early oral cancer detection

The Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) a...

May 12, 2025 | Monday | News
Siemens Healthineers launches revolutionary mammography system in Indonesia

At the annual event of Indonesian Women Imaging Society held recently, Siemens Healthineers has unveiled the MAMMOMAT B....

May 2, 2025 | Friday | News
China's Sonitus Medical and BHM establish strategic cooperation

Sonitus Medical has entered into a strategic cooperation with BHM, a renowned European manufacturer of bone conduction h...

April 28, 2025 | Monday | News
Sengkang General Hospital introduces Siemens Healthineers photon-counting CT scanner in Singapore

Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), in Singapore, has launched a new Siemens Healthineers photon-counting computed tom...

April 25, 2025 | Friday | News
A new EMC testing facility for medical devices has been opened by CSA Group in Kunshan, China

CSA Group announced the grand opening of its state-of-the-art electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) laboratory at Plainvim...

April 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Amcor launches Malaysia’s first-of-its-kind medical device packaging coating facility

Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, has completed construction of its ad...

April 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Nelipak invests in future of sterile barrier medical packaging in Asia-Pacific region

With over 70 years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering custom sterile barrier packaging solutions for...

April 7, 2025 | Monday | News
Singapore to house innovative non-invasive ultrasound-based histotripsy tumour clinical trials

The Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF) and Temasek Trust (TT) have committed S$12 million to bring innovative non-invasive ul...

April 3, 2025 | Thursday | News
Peijia Medical collaborates with dsm-firmenich to create groundbreaking innovative medical device products

Peijia Medical Technology (Suzhou) Co. recently held a strategic innovation cooperation signing ceremony and a press con...

April 2, 2025 | Wednesday | News
SNBL and Tasso establish Joint Venture in Japan to distribute on-demand blood collection device

Japan's Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL) and Tasso, Inc., the Seattle-based leading provider of patient-centri...

March 28, 2025 | Friday | News
Siemens Healthineers to launch radiology equipment centre in Middle East & Egypt

The Ministry of Health in Egypt has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Siemens Healthineers on to launch th...

March 24, 2025 | Monday | News
BenQ Medical Technology and Brain Navi align partnership to advance neurosurgical robotics in China

Taiwan-based startup Brain Navi Biotechnology, a leading innovator in neurosurgical robotics, has announced a strategic ...

March 20, 2025 | Thursday | News
Australia's Illuccix receives approval for prostate cancer imaging in Brazil

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced that the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Agencia Nacional d...

March 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
GE HealthCare expands invasive cardiology solutions portfolio with AltiX AI.i

American medtech firm GE HealthCare has announced the launch of the AltiX AI.i edition of Mac-Lab, CardioLab and ComboLa...

March 18, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Lunit expands partnership with Saudi Arabia's largest medical group to deploy AI chest X-ray solution

South Korea-based startup Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnos...

March 7, 2025 | Friday | News
Olympus to launch single-use hemostasis clip in US, with plans for global expansion

Japan-headquartered Olympus, a global medical technology company committed to making people's lives healthier, safer and...

March 5, 2025 | Wednesday | News
ZEISS VISUMAX 800 with SMILE pro software receives approval in China

ZEISS Medical Technology has announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China has a...

February 27, 2025 | Thursday | News
Olympus plans launch of iTind device in Korea for expanded availability across APAC markets

Olympus Corporation of Asia Pacific (APAC) has announced a milestone for its iTind device with expanded availability acr...

February 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Medtronic earns US FDA approval for world's first adaptive deep brain stimulation system for Parkinson's

For the one million people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the United States, Medtronic plc, a global leader ...

February 25, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Scientists in Hong Kong develop AI-driven tool to accelerate cancer diagnosis

A research team led by Professor Kevin Tsia, programme director of the Biomedical Engineering Programme under the Facult...

February 17, 2025 | Monday | News
XDENT LAB expands largest removable denture factory in Vietnam

XDENT LAB, one of the leading providers in the field of Removable Denture manufacturing in Vietnam, has officially annou...

February 14, 2025 | Friday | News
Smith+Nephew introduces innovative sports medicine foot & ankle repair solutions in Australia and New Zealand

Smith+Nephew, the global medical technology company, has announced the launch of a comprehensive foot & ankle repair...

February 17, 2025 | Monday | News
Australian startup Harrison.ai secures $112 M in Series C funding round

Harrison.ai, a leading global healthtech company and developer of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical diagnosti...

February 13, 2025 | Thursday | News
Singapore's Alexandra Hospital develops world's first A.I. algorithm for robotic knee replacements

Singapore's Alexandra Hospital (AH) Orthopaedic Surgery department has developed the world's first computational algorit...

February 10, 2025 | Monday | News
“Demand for skilled medtech professionals in the Asia Pacific region is growing rapidly”

Could you please share some details of the company's investment plans, and new product development in the coming years?&...

February 1, 2025 | Saturday | Opinion
US FDA clears world's first mobile app for contactless pulse rate measurement

PanopticAI, a leading innovator in remote patient monitoring, has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Ad...

January 27, 2025 | Monday | News
Malaysia's Alpro Pharmacy and Omron Healthcare unite to combat fake BP monitors

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects 3 in 10 Malaysians, making it a prevalent health concern in the country (N...

January 27, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre partners with GE HealthCare to advance cancer research

US-based GE HealthCare has announced its work with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia to further develop and exp...

December 3, 2024 | Tuesday | News
ResMed launches Next-Gen AirSenseTM 11 CPAP in Singapore elevating Digital Health in Sleep Apnoea treatment

ResMed, a global leader in sleep and digital health solutions, launched its next-generation Continuous Positive Airway P...

November 6, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japanese medtech firm Olympus introduces new imaging platform VISERA S

Olympus Corporation, a global medtech company headquartered in Japan, has announced the launch of VISERA S, the all-in-o...

October 1, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves Boston Scientific's FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System

US-based Boston Scientific Corporation has received Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) approval in&nb...

September 29, 2024 | Sunday | News
Indian medtech firm SMT gets Australian approval for drug-eluting stent Supraflex Cruz

SMT (Sahajanand Medical Technologies), a global leader in innovative medical devices based in India, has announced that ...

September 28, 2024 | Saturday | News
Translumina Therapeutics announces initiation of direct operations in UAE

Translumina Therapeutics, one of India's largest domestic players in the coronary stents market, has announced the initi...

September 24, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Olympus launches new 4K camera head for urological endoscopy in Europe

Japan-based medtech company Olympus Corporation has announced the launch of a new 4K camera head, CH-S700-08-L...

September 20, 2024 | Friday | News
First cloud-based AI endoscopy system for colonoscopy gets US FDA clearance

Odin Medical, an Olympus Corporation company, has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance f...

September 6, 2024 | Friday | News
Peijia Medical expands neurointerventional business in Greater China region

Peijia Medical, a leading Chinese domestic player in the high-growth transcatheter valve therapeutics and neurovasc...

August 28, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japanese medtech firm Olympus extends advanced bipolar surgical energy portfolio

Japan-based Olympus Corporation, a global medical technology company, has announced the launch of two new jaw designs in...

August 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong and Zurich conduct world’s first in vivo teleoperated magnetic endoscopy using animal model

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) and the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

August 26, 2024 | Monday | News
MEDICAL JAPAN 2024 TOKYO Expands Horizons with New Trade Fairs and Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage

Like in the previous edition, MEDICAL JAPAN TOKYO features six sub shows. First off is the HOSPITAL EXPO, which i...

August 14, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Taiwanese startup Surglasses deploys Caduceus S surgical navigation system in Thailand

Leading augmented reality (AR) medical technology startup Surglasses, based in Taiwan, has announced that in collaborati...

August 3, 2024 | Saturday | News
Baxter announces launch of Helion Integrated Surgical System in Thailand

Baxter International Inc., a global medtech leader, has announced the launch of the Helion Integrated Surgical Syst...

July 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Bangkok Hospital invests 200 M baht to establish robotic surgery centre

Bangkok Hospital, a leading healthcare provider in Thailand, has invested over 200 million baht to establish a cutting-e...

July 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Nepal's first surgical robot set to transform healthcare sector

SS Innovations, the developer of India’s first indigenous surgical robotic system- SSI Mantra, dedicated to making...

June 27, 2024 | Thursday | News
SS Innovations' Mantra surgical robotic system receives approval for use in Indonesia

Indian firm SS Innovations International, Inc. (SSII), a developer of innovative surgical robotic technologies dedicated...

June 13, 2024 | Thursday | News
Scientists in Hong Kong develop 3D-printable bioactive material to treat large-to-massive tendon injuries

A research team led by Professor Elmer Ker, Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at The Chinese...

June 4, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Teijin announces launch of novel cardiovascular surgical patch in Japan

The consortium of Teijin Limited, Fukui Tateami Co., Ltd., and Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University has ann...

May 30, 2024 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong enhances stereotactic neurosurgery precision using MRI-guided multi-stage robotic positioner

A research team led by Professor Ka-Wai Kwok from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kon...

May 27, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's HOYA Group to distribute AI-assisted lesion detection device in US

HOYA Group Company, PENTAX of America, Inc. (PENTAX Medical,  a division of HOYA Group) and MAGENTIQ-EYE , an artif...

May 18, 2024 | Saturday | News
Siemens invests £250 M in UK’s first major production site for new MRI cooling technology

Siemens Healthineers has announced a new facility in North Oxfordshire, UK that will design and manufacture superconduct...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | News
Medtronic receives approval for first Symplicity Spyral Renal Denervation System in China

Medtronic has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China for its Symplicity Spy...

May 8, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves AI-powered surgical visualisation tool Eureka α

Anaut Inc., a pioneering developer in surgical support software led by Dr Nao Kobayashi, has announced the regulato...

May 3, 2024 | Friday | News

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