Mundipharma launches hygiene products in Thailand

Thailand |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Jul, 2017

Mundipharma, the makers of the BETADINE range of family care products has introduced a range of new daily hygiene products in Thailand to help consumers combat everyday germs and help to li...Read more

Varian to provide first proton therapy system in Thailand

Thailand |  News | 0 Comment | 25 May, 2017

Varian Medical Systems has been selected through its distributor, Business Alignment, to supply and install a Varian ProBeam Compact single-room proton therapy system in the oncology center...Read more

Thai doctors complete first brain surgery in Asia aided by robots

Thailand |  News | 0 Comment | 22 May, 2017

The first robotically assisted brain surgery ever performed in Asia has been successfully completed by the doctors at the Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand on a 77-year-old man with...Read more

Thai JE vaccine receives WHO nod

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Jan, 2015

Singapore: The Government of Pharmaceutical Organization, Thailand, recently announced that the attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine has received approval from the World Health Organiza...Read more

Thai vaccine institute: Our nation needs robust vaccine alliances

Thailand |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jun, 2013

According to the WHO, Thailand has nearly 520,000 people (aged 5-to-49) living with HIV and AIDS and the country has the highest adult HIV prevalence in South East Asia region. Public healt...Read more

Thailand gets new certified rice variety

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2013

Singapore: Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Association (NSTDA) and the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) has developed a new certifie...Read more

First South-east Asia cancer care summit highlights plight of patients in the region

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2016

Singapore: Global experts gathered at the Mundipharma Cancer Care Summit to plan how to improve the quality-of-life for cancer patients in Asia. A key focus was the alarming number of peopl...Read more

Thailand hospital trials mHealth application

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Jul, 2013

Singapore: Thai patients will begin receiving SMS appointment reminders direct to their mobile phones as Bangkok's Vibhavadi Hospital commences a trial of New Zealand company Vensa Health's...Read more

BIOTEC launches microbe management course

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Jan, 2013

Singapore: Thailand's flagship biotechnology organization, BIOTEC, NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan and World Data Center for Microorganisms (WDCM), have launched a training...Read more

Johns Hopkins releases NCD policy briefs

Thailand |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise has released a focused set of policy briefs that provide actionable...Read more

Amgen to acquire rights of three drugs from GSK

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2015

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Amgen, has plans to reacquire all of its remaining rights from GSK on Prolia (denosumab), XGEVA (denosumab) and Vectibix (panitumumab) in 48 countr...Read more

Yongyuth - The man behind the first Thai drug

Thailand |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Feb, 2013

Thailand is on the verge of getting its first indigenously developed drug, an oral anti-malarial drug, that acts against the dihydrofolate reductase target in the Plasmodium. Leading this i...Read more

Chitosan nanoparticles to target breast cancer cells

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Thai Researchers at the National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) developed a target drug delivery system using folate...Read more

Asian endoscopy market clocked $264.7 mn in 2012

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Dec, 2013

Singapore: Endoscopy devices market in Australia, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, earned revenues of USD264.7 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach USD408.3 million in 2017, accordin...Read more

Activists challenge Gilead to give up Hep C drug patent

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 May, 2015

Singapore: Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a team of lawyers and scientists campaigning for global accessibility of medicines for hepatitis C and HIV patients, has...Read more

Thai develops blast, blight resistant glutinuous rice

Thailand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Jan, 2013

Singapore: A new variety of glutinuous rice with resistance to both blast and bacterial blight has been developed by Rice Gene Discovery Unit, BIOTEC, and other institutes such as Kasetsar...Read more

Medical Tourism: Asia's top destinations

Thailand |  Analysis | By Aishwarya Venkatesh  | 0 Comment | 10 Mar, 2015

Singapore:  Asia is a special destination for those looking for quality healthcare at low cost. BioSpectrum takes a look at some of the hottest destinations that are attracting patients fr...Read more

F&S: APAC hospital market touches $378 bn

Thailand |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2013

Singapore: According to a Frost and Sullivan report, Asia Pacific hospital market earned revenues of more than $377.90 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $1085.98 billion in 2017. ...Read more