Healthcare News
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Golden Meditech, HKBU team up to conduct cell therapy research
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 21 Apr, 2019
Golden Meditech, a leading integrated healthcare enterprise in China, announced that it has formed a collaboration with the Department of Biology of Hong Kong Baptist Univers...Read more
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TA Associates announces partnership with Indira IVF
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 16 Apr, 2019
TA Associates, global growth private equity firm has announced that it has completed a significant minority investment in Indira IVF, a leading India-based infertility treatment provider. F...Read more
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Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 15 Apr, 2019
Recently, the forum on medicines co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of South Africa, aimed to provide a global platform for frank discussion among all stake...Read more
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Israel-Cannabis sign MOU for co-investment in Cannabis related startups
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 14 Apr, 2019
Thalys Medical Technology, a leading Chinese healthcare conglomerate signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with iCAN Israel-Cannabis, Israel's leading medical cannabis i...Read more
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The Government of Armenia signs strategic partnership with WHISE-Embleema
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 10 Apr, 2019
The Republic of Armenia Ministry of Health embraces national digital health agenda, partnering with WHISE-Embleema to digitize healthcare data in order to promote science research. Patient...Read more
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Australia conducts trial to test new brain reading device
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 10 Apr, 2019
A device the size of a small paperclip, created to give people with severe paralysis the ability to communicate again, has been approved for its first-in-human clinical trial, which will be...Read more
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ASTRI's cervical cancer screening system receives recognition
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 07 Apr, 2019
The Cervical Cancer Screening Management System (CCSMS) developed by the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) has won the Smart Living (Smart Healthcare) Silv...Read more
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Technology collaboration to enhance innovation ecosystem
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 09 Apr, 2019
Dimension Data and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Deakin University and Western Sydney University (WSU) in ...Read more
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A ray of hope for organ transplant patients
Healthcare | 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
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Israel, India to work on ocular surface disorders
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 04 Apr, 2019
Israel based Ocular Discovery and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) India, have announced the launch of a novel research partnership investigating the mechanism...Read more
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Singapore recalls 3 brands of Losartan medicines
Healthcare | 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
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Hitachi's Radiation Therapy Systems start operation in Nagamori Memorial Center
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2019
Hitachi, Ltd. has announced that the radiation therapy started on April 1, 2019 at Nagamori Memorial Center of Innovative Cancer Therapy and Research at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medi...Read more
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FDA advances policy changes to modernize mammography
Healthcare | News | 1 Comment | 02 Apr, 2019
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced important new steps to modernize breast cancer screening and help empower patients with more information when they are considering ...Read more
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Diseases cost the African Region $2.4 trillion a year: WHO
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 01 Apr, 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 630 million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across its 47 Member States in Af...Read more
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War on Cancer Asia explores the growth of patient advocacy
Healthcare | 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
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Gilead launches HepConnect initiative to combat Hepatitis C infections
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2019
Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced HepConnect, a five-year, multi-million dollar initiative aimed at addressing the sharp increase in chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infections fueled by the nat...Read more
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Farrer Park Hospital implants world’s smallest pacemaker
Healthcare | 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
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Japan Health Ministry approves immunoglobulins to treat CIDP
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 28 Mar, 2019
Global biotherapeutics leader CSL Behring recently announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved two of its immunoglobulin therapies for the trea...Read more
