Australian Institute for Infectious Disease calls for strengthened global pandemic rules

The Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) has called for improved international rules for surveillance, ear...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) risk to alleviate the financial burden during hospitalisation

Dr. Liau Kui Hin, a general surgeon at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital Surgical Site Infection (SSI) i...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore furthers cooperation with China in traditional chinese medicine

Singapore will further its cooperation in several areas of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with the People’s Re...

October 23, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea showcases traditional medicines at world's first expo on health and healing

The 2023 Sancheong World Traditional Medicine Antiaging Expo ended on the 19th with a closing ceremony after its big run...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
East Ventures announces first healthcare fund of $30 M in Indonesia

East Ventures, a pioneering and leading venture capital firm in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, has announced the firm&r...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
New Zealand makes classification change to low-dose medicinal cannabis products

Medsafe, the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, the medical regulatory body run by the New Zeal...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Vaccine production workforce training programme to enhance APAC's pandemic-response capacity

The Ministry of Health and Welfare in South Korea has announced that the Ministry and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
PolyU and Rohto join forces to establish Centre of Research Excellence for eye care in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has partnered with Rohto, an eye care brand under Mentholatum, to establish...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia builds workforce to make mental healthcare more available and equitable

The Australian government, along with all state and territory governments, have developed and endorsed a plan to build A...

October 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea and Denmark share policies on welfare of elderly

South Korea's Minister of Health and Welfare Cho, KyooHong met with Denmark’s Minister for Senior Citizens, Mette ...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Monash University co-leads report into precision medicine in diabetes

A new international consensus report on precision medicine in diabetes prevention and care has been published in Nature ...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches national mental health and well-being strategy

The Inter-agency Taskforce on Mental Health and Well-being has launched Singapore’s National Mental Health and Wel...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Leucine Rich Bio exports ‘Made in India' gut microbiome test ‘BugSpeaks' to the Philippines

As part of its expansion plan, Indian startup Leucine Rich Bio is now exporting its gut microbiome test BugSpeaks to the...

October 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
University of Melbourne inks MoU with Public Health Foundation of India

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the University of Melbourne, Australia and the Public He...

October 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
French health tech startup VirtualiSurg arrives in Singapore for surgical education

Founded in 2017, Paris-headquartered health tech startup VirtualiSurg has launched its Singapore office, marking its int...

October 2, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore promotes Early Screening for Breast Cancer Detection to commemorate BCAM in October

Singapore’s national prevention health initiative, Healthier SG, is involving general practitioners (GPs) to creat...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
What's Transforming Australia's Thriving Life Sciences Industry?

The Australian life sciences sector has grown by an astonishing 43 per cent over the past five years, signifying a drama...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Interaction with Startups to Tackle Mental Healthcare

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) published in 2019, revealed that mental diseases were among the top ten leading...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore drives research into range of diseases with new funding by Tanoto Foundation

Tanoto Foundation has announced the launch of a new Medical Research Fund that will provide up to S$5 million per year i...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Australian govt invests $35 M to develop 14 Centres of Research Excellence for healthcare

The Australian government is investing $35 million to fund 14 Centres of Research Excellence (CRE), bringing together so...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore launches nationwide preventive heart health translational research programme

Supported by a newly awarded S$25 million grant from the National Research Foundation, Singapore and the Singapore Minis...

September 28, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australian first biobank to discover new treatments for genetic muscle diseases in children

The National Muscle Disease Bio-databank, co-led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Monash University and A...

September 25, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore sets up new research centre to address lung diseases in Asian context

To better tackle respiratory diseases in Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has set ...

September 21, 2023 | Thursday | News
Asia Healthcare Holdings takes majority stake in Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology for Rs 600 Cr

Asia Healthcare Holdings (AHH), a single specialty investing and operating healthcare platform funded by TPG Growth...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia establishes Pacific Health Information Support Hub

The Australian Government will partner with several Pacific island countries to boost capacity to collect and analyse he...

September 21, 2023 | Thursday | News