Singapore reveals real cost of being critically ill

A new Manulife study on critical illness found that close to 40% of respondents have spent all or most of their savings ...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Thailand recommends travel control measures for COVID-19

On Thursday, 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of the Coronavirus Diseas...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore to reduce and control BP in hypertensive patients

Multi-country intervention trial to improve hypertension management, led by Duke-NUS Medical  School in Singapore, ...

February 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Apollo TeleHealth inks MoU with TeleHealthcare Malaysia

Apollo TeleHealth Services in India has inked an MoU with TeleHealthcare Malaysia under which it will set up 100 tele-cl...

February 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Chinese S&T Ministry launches programme to tackle COVID-19

As to the battle against the COVID-19, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has launched the prog...

February 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
WeSure launches coronavirus pneumonia insurance

Following the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak ("Covid-19"), WeSure, Tencent's insurance platform, swiftly established an...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Mathematical model indicates decline in current novel coronavirus infections in China

A mathematical model set up by an ad-hoc group of scientists indicates the number of currently infected novel coronaviru...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
RHB Offers Financial Relief to Support Customers Affected by COVID-19

RHB Singapore extends financial relief in terms of a moratorium to support its retail and business customers affected by...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Informa Markets Malaysia brings clarity on COVID-19

Informa Markets, the leading exhibition organiser in Malaysia, is supporting the government's efforts to share fact...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
mfine Launches Remote Clinics to Improve Access to Quality Healthcare

India based startup mfine, an AI powered, on-demand healthcare service which enables virtual medical consultations, has ...

February 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Malaysia to host 5th National Hepatitis Conference NHCMY 2020

Malaysia's official viral hepatitis conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 11th and 12th March 2020, suppo...

February 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore, Malaysia to establish joint working group to combat COVID-19

The objective of the joint working group is to strengthen collaborations and enhance communication between both countrie...

February 14, 2020 | Friday | News
WHO to accelerate research and innovation for new coronavirus

WHO convened a global research and innovation forum to mobilize international action in response to the new coronavirus ...

February 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
WHO renames coronavirus as COVID-19

WHO has renamed the 2019-nCoV to COVID-19, under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation fo...

February 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
Taiwan Excellence assures safety to visitors from coronavirus

Taiwan and Taiwan Excellence issue the following statement regarding travel to Taiwan during the Coronavirus outbreak:...

February 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
Caution needed in assessing how infectious is coronavirus: GlobalData

One of the most frequently asked questions during the novel 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, centered in Wuhan, Ch...

February 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Anagram tackles coronavirus fears in Asian and Singapore organisations

Anagram Group, a leading corporate training company based in Singapore launches online webinars, smaller in-ho...

February 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
WHO, FIND to drive universal access to essential diagnostics

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) have announced that a memor...

February 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
WHO holds first global technical partnership meeting on AMS

WHO in collaboration with the Government of Thailand is organizing a 3-day international AMS technical partners meeting,...

February 10, 2020 | Monday | News
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $100M in response to 2019-nCoV

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will immediately commit up to $100 million for the global ...

February 7, 2020 | Friday | News
UAE foundation supports NUS with medical professorship

The Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation is donating US$3 million to the NUS Yong Lo...

February 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Potential benefits of NR with exercise can relieve hypertension in adults

ChromaDex Corp, the global scientific authority on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide riboside (NR...

February 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
Novotech Wins Australian-Korean Business Excellence Award 2020

Asia-Pacific specialist CRO Novotech has won the Australian-Korean Business Awards 2020 - Award for Excellence, in ...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Healthcare platform CAREhab 2020 postponed due to coronavirus threat in Singapore

Due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation in Singapore, annual premier healthcare platform CAREhab 2020, origin...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
New Algorithm predicts gestational diabetes

A new computer algorithm can predict in the early stages of pregnancy, or even before pregnancy has occurred, which wome...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News