Singapore Health News

And yet within hours of the move to begin a full debate on healthcare legislation, the delicate patchwork of political deals that led to the vote began to unravel . Senators, whose votes were crucial to avoid a Republican filibuster,...

SINGAPORE: The local full-feature comedy "Happy Go Lucky" held its first day shoot ceremony on Monday without leading actress Fann Wong, who has been diagnosed as having H1N1. Fann, who had returned on Thursday from a work trip to Hainan...

Shachi Shukla, a former journalist with city daily Lokmat Times and presently living in Singapore, has become the ninth vic-tim of swine flu in that country. She died on Sunday morning, a Sin-gapore ministry of health statement quoted in Straits...

Sin Chew Daily reported that statistics released by the island republic�s Health Ministry recently showed that it received 401 cases of reported mistakes in the last seven years. Its general hospitals made 339 mistakes while the remaining mistakes were made...

Makers of the complex drugs known as biologics are near a victory in Congress that would slow the development of generic-drug competitors, but supporters of generics are gearing up for a last-ditch fight. Without support from the White House, which...

Health insurance in Asia has much potential to grow, especially in emerging markets in the region. Analysts said that is because these countries are likely to see a growth in demand for insurance, as the population gains affluence and healthcare...

Crackdown targets counterfeit drugs Agencies rip into packages of phony medication worldwide Washington Post In highly orchestrated raids around the world last week, Interpol officers in Europe, drug agents in the United States and task forces from Sweden to Singapore...

Israelis and former Israelis are behind many of the world's Internet sites that sell counterfeit or other illegal drugs involved in pharmaceutical crimes, providing useless or dangerous products to people who think they are getting the real thing. So says...

Despite having no known family history of cancer, she was diagnosed with stage three uterine cancer at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH). After an operation to remove her affected womb, ovaries and some lymph nodes, Mrs Ng, 51, said...

Chas Bernhardt Vail, CO, Colorado newsroom@vaildaily.com America's health care system will never be as great as it could be unless Congress will accept for itself what it mandates for the rest of us. The much-quoted 2000 World Health Organization statistics...