Singapore's CBC Group appoints healthcare veteran Abbas Hussain as Operating Partner

Singapore-headquartered asset management firm, CBC Group has announced the appointment of healthcare industry veteran, A...

April 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
International Vaccine Institute exchanges MoU with Seegene on global HPV burden study

South Korea-based firm Seegene and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation dedicated to...

April 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Sepsis study in Australia to power new antibiotic discoveries

Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have led a national study on the four main bacteria that cause sep...

April 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
How Equitable Data Sharing is key to realising precision medicine in APAC

Targeting treatments to individuals is the panacea for precision and personalised medicine. It depends on a detailed und...

April 1, 2023 | Saturday | Opinion
"There's strong commercial growth potential for medical devices in APAC markets"

What is your outlook for the APAC medical device market in 2023?  The global market for elective surgical proc...

April 1, 2023 | Saturday | Opinion
A World Sans Malaria

Malaria, the oldest and most complex disease affecting mankind, is prevalent in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, which ho...

April 1, 2023 | Saturday | Opinion
Takeda Opens its First Platinum Positive Energy Building in Singapore

Takeda has officialy launched its first ‘positive energy’ manufacturing support building at its site in JTC ...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | Company results
Pilot project to democratise manufacturing and availability of medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa

In cooperation with Oak Crest Institute of Science based in California, the H3D Foundation has announced ...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
International dementia research collaboration to address key health challenge in Australia and Japan

Three expert teams in Australia will share $1.5 million to undertake research into causes of dementia through projects f...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's Seegene to share Syndromic PCR technologies to prevent future pandemics

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for PCR molecular diagnostics, has declared the ...

March 29, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Quadripartite call to action for One Health for safer world

At their first annual face-to-face meeting recently, the heads of the Quadripartite organisations working on One Health ...

March 29, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu launches new cloud-based platform for healthcare sector in Japan

Fujitsu has announced the launch of a new cloud-based platform that allows users to securely collect and leverage health...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australian PPE firm Ansell invests $80 M in new manufacturing facility in India

Ansell, a global leader in personal protective equipment (PPE), recently marked the first phase of Go Live for Packing &...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to set up Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health

Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health is being set up by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National Un...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia announces world first framework for rural and remote nursing

A world first guide addressing the unique demands and challenges for Registered Nurses in rural and regional Australia h...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Korean firm launches PlaClin-M, a revolutionary disinfection device

CodeSteri, a leading provider of disinfection solutions in South Korea, has announced the launch of PlaClin-M, a revolut...

March 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Hong Kong develops approach to estimate risk of heart disease in HIV patients

Although there are existing calculators for predicting the risk of coronary artery disease in an individual, they are of...

March 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
New Zealand outlines path to eliminate local transmission of HIV by 2030

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand has published the HIV Action Plan which outlines a path to eliminate loc...

March 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia injects $3M funding for world-first drug trial for poorly controlled epilepsy

Epilepsy affects over 150,000 Australians, and 50 million globally, with one-third struggling to control their condition...

March 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan to provide comprehensive end-to-end linen management services to hospitals in India

Toyota Tsusho, a renowned global trading company within the Toyota Group in Japan, has teamed up with Tokai Corp, a spec...

March 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia debuts flagship medical tourism hospital programme

Malaysia has debuted its first-of-its-kind Flagship Medical Tourism Hospital Programme, announcing the four shortlisted ...

March 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia-Israel partnership to accelerate medical innovation and health service transformation

Monash University, Australia is teaming up with Israel’s Sheba Medical Centre, to research and develop new medical...

March 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Indian startup Augnito to enhance medical documentation in Saudi Arabia

Augnito, one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical speech recognition providers in the gl...

March 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Thailand opens world-class institute to treat all heart conditions

Artirat Charukitpipat, Chief Executive Officer of Bumrungrad International Hospital; Associate Professor Dr Taveesin Tan...

March 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care in APAC

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why.  After al...

March 10, 2023 | Friday | Analysis