The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced plans to nearly double the number of eldercare centers in Singapore from 119 to 220 by 2025. This announcement comes amidst reports about Singapore’s ageing population, where it is noted that there will be an...
The Philippines and Italy are hoping to sign a mutual agreement for collaborating not just on science and health but also in other areas of strategic interests such as biomedical research, food science and technology, fashion and textile, furniture research and...
Vietnam´s pharmaceutical industry is growing strongly, benefitting from stable input costs. According to SSI Research, during the first quarter of 2022 total pharmaceutical revenue of the country increased by 7% over the same period in 2021, expecting that the...
KPower Bhd, Malaysia’s utility and renewable energy company, has launched the country’s first halal-certified synthetic bone cement, Prosteomax, through its subsidiary Granulab (M) Sdn Bhd. Prosteomax is a calcium phosphate-based synthetic bone cement that has...
KPower Healthcare chief executive officer Muhamad Badzli Abu Bakar said the company hopes to conclude the deal for three to five of the hospitals this year. KPower Healthcare was just set up in 2019 and the progress has been quite limited due to the Movement Control...
MiRXES, a Singapore-headquartered biotechnology company that focuses on miRNA-powered cancer early detection tests, announced the opening of South East Asia’s first industry 4.0 (i4.0) in vitro diagnostic (IVD) manufacturing facility. The USD 5.7 million facility is...
In late May, the Singapore Government announced that it was embarking on a project to map the DNA and the complete set of genes of 100,000 Singaporeans, which could potentially help to pinpoint the underlying causes of cancer and chronic ailments and identify new ways...
The government of Thailand has announced its strategy to promote the country’s medical tourism and healthcare to attract foreign visitors in the post-Covid-19 era. In this context, the June-to-September period, normally a low season for Thai tourism, will witness an...
On April 19, MGI, a world-leading life science company, announced partnership with Nalagenetics (NALA). The aim of the partnership is to co-develop low coverage whole genome sequencing for risk prediction and pharmacogenomics through optimizing Next Generation...
Drug companies’ earnings have surged during the first quarter of 2022 due to high demand for Covid-19 medicines and other relevant products. DHG Pharmaceutical JSC, the country’s largest pharmaceutical firm, recorded a 25% increase in profits, topping at VND 255...
The Philippines’ digital healthcare system gets a boost from Australia after the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) forged a partnership towards conducting joint...
Malaysia’s leading healthcare industry supply chain management provider, Hong Seng Group through its subsidiary, HS Bio Sdn Bhd, has agreed to collaborate with Mediven Innovation Ventures (Mediven) to jointly work on the supply of healthcare products and services. The...
