Asia Pacific

Asia must shift from treating illness to preventing disease: Kelvin Loh, AIA

Kelvin Loh, Group Chief Healthcare Officer at AIA, discusses how insurers, digital health, AI and behavioural science can help Asia's ageing populations live healthier lives while improving healthcare access and affordability....

Aevice Health gains FDA clearance for AI-powered wheeze detection software

The Class II decision-support software analyses lung sound recordings from compatible FDA-cleared electronic stethoscopes and flags recordings suggestive of wheeze for clinical review....

Healthcare follows us through life. Our data should too

Greg Taylor, Senior Vice President and General Manager APAC at Confluent, argues that connected, real-time patient data will be critical as healthcare increasingly moves beyond hospitals into homes and communities....

Kawasaki and Gemelli University Hospital Explore Medical Robotics Collaboration

The planned collaboration with Gemelli University Hospital represents the first partnership between KIC-EU and a European healthcare institution...

NTU Researchers Discover Cholesterol’s Role in Protecting Cellular Recycling Centres

The study describes how cells rapidly transport cholesterol to lysosomal membranes when these organelles take in damaged mitochondria...

SOLA Japan to Accelerate Development of SOL-257 for ALS with AMED Grant

Through the AMED-supported program, SOLA Japan will serve as a central development hub in Japan...

MIMS Scales Clinical Decision Support and Digital Healthcare Services

The company is now ready to harness its data, technology and healthcare relationships to create scalable products and new business models across markets...

Taiwan shifts from MedTech hardware supplier to ASEAN co-innovation partner: Megan Liu

Megan Liu, Director of TAITRA Singapore, discusses how Taiwan’s ICT and engineering strengths are translating into practical MedTech solutions, the barriers to ASEAN market entry and the move towards decentralised, AI-enabled and sustainable healthcare....

Singapore deploys first AI-powered head CT model on AimSG for brain bleed detection

iScreen analyses head CT scans for intracranial haemorrhage and alerts radiologists to urgent cases, cutting AI result turnaround to about six minutes at Singapore General Hospital....

Ferronova reports early MAGMAP results for nanoparticle-guided cancer lymph node mapping

The 62-patient multicentre trial is evaluating a nanoparticle-based platform designed to help identify sentinel lymph nodes in gastric and oesophageal cancer surgery....