Category: Features
Lab-produced skin could end animal testing in cosmetics industry
Move over animal testing, and make way for lab-produced skin. L’Oréal is now shifting gears by producing human skin in order to restrict animal testing. But this is no new order, the French cosmetics giant that includes other brands such […]
How a new hospital gets colonized by germs
Hundreds of thousands of patients get hospital-acquired infections every year, and in 2011, 75,000 people died as a result. As hospitals work to better protect patients from germs that travel easily among the weak and already-ill, researchers saw a golden […]
Higher vitamin D levels linked to lower risk of cancer
Higher levels of vitamin D may lower chances of developing cancer, according to a study made by Creighton University in Nebraska, US with cooperation from the University of California San Diego. Funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH), the study […]
Scientists uncover ways on how cancers can escape the immune system
A team of Singapore scientists has discovered new insights on how cancers evade the immune system. Using gastric cancer (GC), the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide, the conclusion made may be applicable to other major cancers with potential […]
Perennial Real Estate to set up its first TCM treatment facility in Singapore
Singapore-listed property and healthcare firm Perennial Real Estate Holdings is partnering with a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospital to establish its first treatment facility in Singapore. Perennial Real Estate has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Beijing Hospital of […]
Havas Group acquires healthcare communications company Sorento
Havas Group is boosting its health business unit and expanding its capabilities in the Indian market with its acquisition of India-based health and wellness communications agency Sorento. Following the acquisition, Sorento will be rebranded as Havas Life Sorento and will […]
Internet withdrawal causes increased heart rate, anxiety levels
People who have a tendency to be obsessive internet users experience withdrawal-like symptoms and significant physiological changes such as increased heart rate and blood pressure when they go offline, a new study has found. Scientists and clinicians from Swansea University […]
India’s ban on foreign funds could harm health programs
The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a non-profit group backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has expressed its worries regarding India’s ban on its foreign funds which, it says, may be detrimental to some government health programs. […]
Singapore to boost use of technology for better healthcare delivery
Singapore is ramping up the use of technology to improve healthcare delivery for patients nationwide. Health Minister Gan Kim Yong has recently announced that by the end of the year, all Singaporeans will have access to a new application that […]
“Ultra-tough” antibiotic developed to fight superbugs
Scientists in the US have redesigned a vital antibiotic, creating a new version of vancomycin, to fight some of the world’s toughest superbugs. The re-engineered version is designed to be ultra-tough and appears to be a thousand times more potent […]
