Medical devices

Patients with rarer types of diabetes can get up to 80% in subsidies for monitoring devices

Ms Ng Zhuang Shu, who has monogenic diabetes, uses the Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system to monitor her blood sugar levels. This system currently is the only CGM device eligible for government subsidies.

Wearable ultrasound stickers being developed to help monitor chronic patients continuously

The wearable ultrasound stickers can provide continuous imaging of a patient’s internal organs for up to 48 hours.

Wong Kim Hoh meets...

She was run over by two trains in London and lost her right limbs. Then, she conquered Mt Kilimanjaro

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Sarah De Lagarde pictured Sep 27, 2025. She is the first woman in the world to be fitted with an AI bionic arm, and the first woman in the world to have conquered Mount Kilimanjaro twice in two years: once able-bodied, once disabled. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

Thailand seizes 2 million herbal inhalers worth over $4.8m from illegal factories

Thailand's has seized over 2 million Hong Thai Herbal Inhalers worth over $4.8 million.

Living with dignity after stoma surgery

Moving forward, we need ro talk more openly about stomas to help patients feel less isolated, writes a nurse.

US opens tariff probes into medical equipment, robotics, industrial machinery

The tariffs could also cover surgical masks, N95 respirators, gloves, gowns and other medical and surgical instruments and supplies.

Belgian officials say US-funded contraceptives still in storage, despite reports of destruction

FILE — The warehouse in Geel, Belgium, where millions of contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. were stored when the U.S. government defunded the agency, in Geel, Belgium, July 22, 2025. Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday, Sept. 11. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)

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