Singapore establishes pancreas transplantation service as national programme

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

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
5G Smart Hospital launches in Thailand

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

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia invests $23.7 M to boost preventative health

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

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Asian audiences are consuming more content related to digital health tech: Report

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

December 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia links antidepressants with post-surgery delirium

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

December 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
New study highlights Thailand's response to NCDs

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

December 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia announces $50 M investment for HIV and blood borne viruses

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

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Reality of universal cancer prevention & cure

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

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | Analysis
New study in Singapore provides fundamentals of memory formation

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that the little-known CA2 hippocampal, a small...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $37.2 M for Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder support

The Australian government is investing more than $37 million for Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnostic serv...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore finds new insights on sexual dysfunction among midlife women

A large-scale study led by the National University Health System (NUHS) on sexual activity in midlife women in Singapore...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Data-driven population health management in Asia-Pacific

Asia Pacific faces a growing prevalence of chronic diseases, or non-communicable diseases (NCDs), prompted by ...

November 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Gilead Sciences releases grants worth $1.5 M to help end HIV epidemic in APAC

US-based Gilead Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2021 Gilead Asia Pacific (APAC) Rainbow Grant, a regional g...

November 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Mapping The Future of Healthcare: Role of Big Data and Technology

Special Ministerial Conference for ASEAN Digital Public Health A special Ministerial Conference was held in October 202...

November 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia suggests anxiety symptoms as early indicator of Alzheimer's disease

New research suggests that anxiety symptoms in late-middle-aged adults may be an indicator of the earliest stage of Alzh...

November 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Experts seek quality & not quantity as modern science looks to improve health & life span

Healthcare has taken massive strides in a matter of two years, evolving and changing distinctly. As efforts against COVI...

November 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore links increasing air pollution to rise of particular lung cancer

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has linked incr...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia establishes national aged care advisory council

Seventeen prominent Australians will provide expert advice on aged care issues and the implementation of the Australian ...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Philips Foundation announces partnership with Singapore Heart Foundation

Philips Foundation, with its mission to provide access to quality healthcare for disadvantaged communities through innov...

November 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
New campaign reveals real-world challenges of living with hepatitis B in Asia

Gilead Sciences, in collaboration with the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific (CEVHAP...

November 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China to improve medical insurance, assistance against major diseases

China is planning to improve medical insurance and assistance targeting major and critical diseases with a multi-layered...

November 22, 2021 | Monday | News
Thailand establishes international medical cannabis research centre

Thailand's Public Health Ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding  (MOU) with RxLeaf World Medica on ...

November 22, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ strengthens focus on antimicrobial resistance

The Ministry of Health and Ministry for Primary Industries support the ‘One Health’ approach to spread aware...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea addresses health security at first 'World Emerging Security Forum'

A number of distinguished global leaders and experts joined the first World Emerging Security Forum, which took place in...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore inks MoU with Chile for ageing issues

Singapore Minister for Health, Ong Ye Kung, and Chile Minister of Social Development and Family, Dr Karla Rubilar, have ...

November 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News