Healthcare
SingHealth and St Luke’s ElderCare ink MoU to boost community health
SingHealth and St Luke’s ElderCare ink MoU to boost community health
Key collaboration areas include care coordination and transitions, capability building, and programming.
NUH develops AI tool to accelerate lumbar spinal stenosis diagnosis
The tech has been trialled in over 50 patients since June.
Q&M Dental to acquire Veritas Dental Clinic for $800,000
Q&M has also advanced a deposit of $125,000 to Veritas.
Singaporeans can’t afford testing for dementia
Over 1 in 3 indicated fear as a reason for not getting tested.
Cordlife Group faces operational limits until January 2025
It expects a continued negative financial impact for 2024.
Tan Huiying resigns as Cordlife's group director for quality and operations
Her resignation is effective 4 November.
NNI, IMH ink MOU to strengthen neuroscience and psychiatry partnership
This aims to leverage their commonalities and complementary strengths for the public.
UG Healthcare narrows net loss by 70.8% in FY24
EPS stood at $0.17
ST Engineering and Philips team up for digital health solutions
Hospital systems driving similar remote services can expect to reduce length of stay by more than 20%.
Singapore General Hospital names new CEO
Associate Professor Tan Hiang Khoon will succeed Professor Kenneth Kwek in the role.
Cordlife to resume cord blood banking in 'controlled manner'
It can only collect 30 units per month of new cord blood.
Half of middle-aged S’poreans seek healthcare integration and convenience
Challenges raised include long wait times and affordability.
HSA revokes licence of retailer for e-vaporiser violations
It seized over 120 e-vaporisers from the retailers.
iX Biopharma widens net loss by 12% in FY2024
Loss per share stood at $0.0141.
Thomson Medical’s FY2024 earnings plunges 57.8% to $15.4m
Earnings per share stood at $0.058.
Nanjing Xinjiekou halts plan to buy remaining Cordlife shares
The company is under investigation by the Ministry of Health.
Pasture Holdings’ earnings rebound in FY 2024
The company has rebounded from a net loss of US$1.3m to a net profit of US$0.6m.
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