Healthcare News
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TB deaths increase first time in over a decade: WHO 2021 report
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 15 Oct, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis and for the first time in over a de...Read more
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Singapore explores cost-effective method to reduce dengue
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 15 Oct, 2021
A team of experts led by the National Environment Agency in Singapore has suggested that dengue could be suppressed...Read more
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India launches biggest health programme post-COVID-19
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 15 Oct, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic showed the relevance of ‘One Health’ principles in the governance of infectious diseases, ...Read more
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Global Healthcare Accreditation partners with Ratchaphruek Hospital in Thailand
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2021
US-based Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA), The Khon Kaen Chamber of Commerce and Ratchaphruek Hospital ha...Read more
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Australia brings world’s first children’s mental health and wellbeing strategy
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 13 Oct, 2021
The Australian government has launched the world’s first National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Str...Read more
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Singapore's Ngee Ann Polytechnic launches Robotics Research & Innovation Centre (RRIC)
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 13 Oct, 2021
Singapore's Ngee Ann Polytechnic launches Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s (NP) Robotics Research & Innovation Centre (R...Read more
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Japan identifies emerging infectious disease caused by new 'nairovirus'
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2021
A previously unknown virus that can infect humans and cause disease has been identified by scientists in Japan. The nove...Read more
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Australia launches new projects to combat brain injury in sports
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2021
The Australian government will boost funding to improve research and prevention of brain injuries and concussion for Aus...Read more
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Australia to develop environmentally-friendly mosquito control tools
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 06 Oct, 2021
In a first for the Southern Hemisphere, researchers in Australia have shown a bacteria can successfully sterilise and er...Read more
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Singapore highlights 'screen time' as risk factor for myopia in children
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 06 Oct, 2021
A major global study linking the use of digital smart devices (smartphones and tablets) with myopia in childre...Read more
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Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Testing Becoming Available in Some Areas
Healthcare | Opinion | By Devin Partida is a medical and health tech writer from San Francisco, California. She also writes about medical technologies, AI and cybersecurity on ReHack.com. | 0 Comment | 04 Oct, 2021
There’s no denying that there’s been a substantial increase in the number of COVID-19 cases around the count...Read more
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Healthcare | Opinion | By Devin Partida is a medical and health tech writer from San Francisco, California. She also writes about medical technologies, AI and cybersecurity on ReHack.com. | 0 Comment | 04 Oct, 2021
The burden of disease is used to calculate and estimate a population’s overall health. It can give some insight in...Read more
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Singapore opens third unit under National University Polyclinics
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 04 Oct, 2021
Built over three years, Bukit Panjang Polyclinic has been officially opened by the Minister for Health, Ong Ye Kung toda...Read more
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Therapeutic approaches for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
Healthcare | Opinion | By Dr Lim Chun Sen, Head of Radiotherapy and Oncology Department, Hospital Sultan Ismail, Malaysia | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2021
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer death globally. In Malaysia, HCC is the eighth mos...Read more
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Healthcare leaders convene to empower women in digital health across APAC
Healthcare | Analysis | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2021
On the occasion of World Contraception Day, healthcare professionals, policymakers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs...Read more
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Indonesian commercial banks to finance the Indonesian healthcare sector
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2021
Bank Central Asia (BCA), a leading Indonesian commercial bank, and Impact Credit Solutions (ICS) have partnered to offer...Read more
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Australia invests $1.5 million towards children’s mental health and wellbeing
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 29 Sep, 2021
Australia is providing a new, free phone application with information, ideas and guidance for parents to help them provi...Read more
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Japan approves first orally administered therapy for rare autoimmune renal disease
Healthcare | News | 0 Comment | 27 Sep, 2021
Swiss firm Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (VFMCRP) has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health and La...Read more
