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Clearbridge BioMedics receives $6.6 mil in pre-IPO funding ahead of targeted 4Q launch
SINGAPORE (June 28): Clearbridge BioMedics has announced $6.6 million in pre-initial public offering (IPO) funding from oncology medical professionals, as well as investors focused in healthcare & biotechnology.
June 28, 2018
Clearbridge partners Australia's Genome.One for personal health genomics programme
SINGAPORE (June 26): Clearbridge Health (CBH) is partnering Australia-based health information company Genome.One, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Garvan Institute of Medical Research, to offer its patients genomic testing and analysis with the latter’s Ge
June 26, 2018
iXBiopharma's Wafesil granted regulatory approval for treatment of male erectile dysfunction in Australia
SINGAPORE (June 19): iX Biopharma says the Australia’s regulatory authority, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has given the go-ahead for the use of Wafesil to treat of male erectile dysfunction in the country.
June 19, 2018
Singapore economy
How much is pain costing Singapore’s economy?
SINGAPORE (June 20): Pain conditions are costing Southeast Asian economies about US$44.6 billion ($61.9 billion) in productivity losses on an annual basis – out of which Singapore’s estimated productivity losses make up about US$6.2 billion per year,
June 20, 2017
In print this week
Should Asian investors buy into the story of rising healthcare demand?
SINGAPORE (March 31): At least one observer has held up Singapore’s healthcare system as a model for the developed world. But the system is not without its own issues.
March 31, 2017
RHB strategy for 2017
Singapore Medical Group’s expansion into Vietnam market is just the beginning
SINGAPORE (Jan 10): RHB is maintaining its “buy” call on Singapore Medical Group (SMG) with a target price of 63 cents following the recent news of the group’s expansion into Vietnams’ private healthcare market.
January 10, 2017
China Focus
China’s airpocalypse paves a path for new cancer medicines
BEIJING (Jan 6): The thick haze of pollution blanketing northern China this winter is a grim reminder of the nation’s new growth industry: lung cancer drugs.
January 06, 2017