Australia inks new medicines agreements for significant patient benefits

Australians will have more affordable, improved and guaranteed access to medicines under landmark long-term strategic ag...

September 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Health Ministers from WHO South-East Asia region to discuss rebuilding UHC

The ongoing pandemic and measures to ‘build back better’ essential health services to achieve universal heal...

September 3, 2021 | Friday | News
Vax cocktail endgame against COVID-19

Vaccine mixing, which began unintentionally, is now gaining traction. There is a significant interest in mixing two diff...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Hong Kong demonstrates 2.5-fold increase in child myopia during pandemic

A recent study by The Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) showed that the unprecede...

September 3, 2021 | Friday | News
China lays focus on age-related cognitive decline

China-based Insilico Medicine has announced an R&D collaboration with Gray Matter, a longevity biotechnology company...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan to leverage advanced IoT technology for flatfoot patients

Japan-based NEC  has signed a joint research agreement with Teikyo University, and Mizonokuchi Hospital to vis...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
European precision radiation therapy to address Indonesia's cancer care gap

Leader in precision radiation medicine, Stockholm-based Elekta announced that it has established a permanent legal entit...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Malaysia extends Bactiguard wound care purchase tender

Bactiguard's tender award for wound care products for the public sector in Malaysia has been extended by anoth...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Delayed vaccination timelines in Asia to cause cumulative losses of $1.7 B

A new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) outlines economic, political, and geopolitical consequences of...

August 25, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia builds largest collections of living tumours from prostate cancer patients

Researchers at Monash University, Australia have established one of the world’s largest collections of living tumo...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to enhance national mental health strategy

The COVID-19 Mental Wellness Taskforce (CoMWT), which was convened in October 2020, has completed its review of the psyc...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore improves affordability of cancer treatment

The Singapore government has accepted the MediShield Life Council’s recommendations to create a list of clinically...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
New Zealand's to fund novel innovations to assist more mental health initiatives

New Zealand Health Ministery has set up a one-off defined mental health innovation fund to further expand the suppo...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
Johnson & Johnson vision to pioneer Integrated eye health ecosystem in Singapore

Johnson & Johnson Vision, a global leader in eye health and part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Compan...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
New Zealand unveils 12 health system indicator framework to reform health services

New Zealand's reform of the health system has unveiled a system to ensure the deliv...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Changing face of mental health assistance in Asia

The Asian mental health industry is still relatively new, largely due to barriers like stigma and limited access to care...

August 15, 2021 | Sunday | Opinion
Malaysia examines risk of mortality in babies with birth defects

The Paediatric Surgery Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), sees the culmination of a ...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia to ease burden of dementia for indigenous population

Improving the impact of high dementia rates on Indigenous Australians and communities is the focus of a University of Qu...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Baring Private Equity Asia buys Hinduja Group's healthcare biz for $1.2 B

Indian firm Hinduja Group’s business process management entity, Hinduja Global Solutions Limited (HGS) h...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China discovers effective weight-loss method

A collaborative study between scientists at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and AntiCancer Inc. ...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ takes next step for largest health infrastructure project

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand (NZ) is now in talks for next planning and design stage in the New Dunedin Hospita...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
The "New Normal" - Reimagining healthcare in the post-pandemic world

COVID-19 has caused huge disruptions across industries, including healthcare. Healthcare systems overwhelmed by rising i...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | Opinion
Australian government to invest over $300 million in health infrastructure

To support the Commonwealth’s first Closing the Gap Implementation Plan, the Australian Government is investi...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
Poland and Peru receives Micomme medical help to fight the pandemic

Micomme has associated with Polish and Peruvian partners to accomplish the government centralized purchase of 1,600...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore-based startup Plano ties up with Huawei to tackle myopia

Huawei Technologies and Plano have announced their partnership to address the global problem of myopia. Through this par...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News