Japan approves VYVGART for treatment of generalised Myasthenia Gravis

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2022

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

Singapore finds link between hearing, vision loss and mortality

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2022

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

Singapore enhances support to people with disabilities

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Jan, 2022

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

Seoul Semiconductor shows myopia improvement using 'SunLike Lighting'

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2022

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

Australia invests $44 M to expand health and medical research capability

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Jan, 2022

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

China proposes action plan to focus on disability prevention

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jan, 2022

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

Mental health clinical trials receive funding worth $14.8 M in Australia

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2022

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

China approves Yiling Pharma's patent depression-resolving drug

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2021

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

China introduces whole course management system for osteoporosis patients

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Dec, 2021

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

Australia using ‘manikin’ to track COVID-19 within indoor spaces

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Dec, 2021

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

Singapore establishes pancreas transplantation service as national programme

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2021

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

5G Smart Hospital launches in Thailand

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2021

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

Australia invests $23.7 M to boost preventative health

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Dec, 2021

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

Asian audiences are consuming more content related to digital health tech: Report

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Dec, 2021

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

Australia links antidepressants with post-surgery delirium

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2021

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

New study highlights Thailand’s response to NCDs

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Dec, 2021

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

Australia announces $50 M investment for HIV and blood borne viruses

Healthcare |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Dec, 2021

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

Reality of universal cancer prevention & cure

Healthcare |  Analysis | By Ayesha Siddiqui | 0 Comment | 02 Dec, 2021

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