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From Manual Counting to Automated Analysis: Building A More Reliable and Traceable Microbiological Data
SingHealth has launched its first off-hospital MRI centre at Dunearn Village
A key innovation highlighted at SingHealth’s new MRI centre is its
walk-through metal detection system - Iradimed's Ferrous Metal Detector (FMD) with TruSense
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We are proud to see the TruSense Installation at the Singapore General Hospital
We are proud to see the TruSense installation at the
Singapore General Hospital
satellite clinic featured in
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报
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We are grateful for the opportunity to support healthcare teams with solutions that make MRI environments safer and less stressful...
Covid-19: Shipments of antigen rapid test kits arriving
Suppliers of Covid-19 antigen rapid test (ART) kits tell The Straits Times that there are months' worth of stock in warehouses, and shipments are arriving every week. It comes amid surging demand for ART kits, with more people required to get tested before going into the office or to events.
10 Covid-19 ART kits to be delivered to every S'pore household
This will benefit some 1.54 million households, the Ministry of Health (MOH) told The Straits Times. The kits will be mailed out via SingPost, making it more convenient for the public to test themselves regularly at home.This distribution exercise - which will last from Friday to Dec 7 - is the...
HSA Grants Interim Authorisation for Four COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test
These are antigen rapid tests (ARTs) that can be used by consumers (untrained lay-users) for self-testing to detect active SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasal swab samples. ARTs detect the viral proteins in the nasal swab samples of infected individuals and usually work best in the early stages of infecti...
ART kit vending machine near Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
On Sep. 15, a vending machine dispensing Covid-19 tests outside Ng Teng Fong General Hospital was seen with incorrect information displayed on it. The vending machine outside Ng Teng Fong General Hospital dispenses Biomedia SPD Scientific Covid-19 home test kits.
Singapore authorises four COVID-19 antigen rapid test self-use kits
These are antigen rapid tests (ARTs) that can be used by consumers (untrained lay-users) for self-testing to detect active SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasal swab samples. ARTs detect the viral proteins in the nasal swab samples of infected individuals and usually work best in the early stages...
Stock levels of ART kits 'healthy and sufficient'
Distributors here are confident that they are able to meet the rising demand for Covid-19 antigen rapid test (ART) kits, with months' worth of stock in warehouses and shipments coming in every week to meet the surge in orders.This follows the rush for ART kits at many pharmacy retailers, where...
EPF awards Covid-19 test kit supply contract to Singapore firm...
KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has awarded a Covid-19 saliva test kit supply contract to Singapore-based biomedical and life sciences services company Biomedia's Malaysian unit SPD Scientific (M) Sdn Bhd following a tender exercise by the EPF, according to the pension fu...
'Adequate' supply of COVID-19 self-test kits
SINGAPORE: Suppliers of COVID-19 self-test kits are working with retailers to ensure there are enough test kits available, as demand has gone up in recent weeks, they told CNA.SPD Scientific managing director Jes Lim said on Wednesday (Sep 22) that while demand has shot up many times, stoc...
18th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA2024)
The successful completion of our stand-building project for Intersurgical at 19th WFSA World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Singapore.
A Practical FAQ on Cardiac PET for Clinicians and Referrers
The Basics
1. What is cardiac PET?
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive imaging test that measures blood flow to the heart muscle. Using a positron-emitting tracer, most commonly rubidium-82 and a PET (or PET/CT) scanner, it images myocardial perfusion a...
Rubidium-82, Answered: A Practical FAQ for Clinicians and Programmes
The tracer
What is rubidium-82?
Rubidium-82 (Rb-82) is a positron-emitting radioactive tracer used for PET imaging of blood flow to the heart muscle. Chemically it behaves like potassium: living heart cells pump it in via the sodium–potassium (Na⁺/K⁺) ATPase, in proportion to t...
The PET MPI Business Case: A Framework for Evaluating Quantitative Cardiac Perfusion Imaging
The clinical evidence supporting Rb-82 PET MPI is compelling and well documented. The key challenge now is translating that evidence into institutional value. What does adoption mean for your hospital’s competitive position, operational efficiency, patient care pathway, and financial perfo...
Beyond the Relative Scan: The Case for Absolute Myocardial Blood Flow
For decades, myocardial perfusion imaging has been interpreted in relative
terms. One region of the myocardium is compared against another: the
territory with the highest uptake becomes the reference, and everything else
is measured against it. The logic is elegant, and for...
Beyond the Horseshoe Crab
A test built on a finite biological resource The recombinant future of bacterial endotoxin testingThe bacterial endotoxins test (BET) is one of the most consequential quality-control tests in medicine. It is the critical release test that stands between a contaminated injectable and a patient. An en...
Rapid Sterility Testing: Enabling Timely Release of Cell and Gene Therapies
Rapid sterility testing for a cell-and-gene therapy eraThe compendial sterility test is a paradox. It is simultaneously one of the most important tests in sterile manufacturing and one of the most limited. It confirms the absence of viable, actively multiplying microorganisms when a sample is incuba...
Rapid Microbiological Methods: Moving from Retrospective Testing to Real-Time Contamination Control
Why the traditional baseline is the problem Alternative and rapid microbiological methods, from solid-phase cytometry to continuous monitoringFor decades, the microbiologist's relationship with contamination has been retrospective. A swab is taken, a plate is incubated for five to seven days, and on...
The Hidden Variables in Environmental Monitoring
Why culture media and sampling discipline quietly decide your contamination-control dataEnvironmental monitoring is the nervous system of a contamination control strategy. It tells a sterile-manufacturing site whether its cleanrooms, surfaces, and operators are in control. Yet for all the attention...
From Manual Counting to Automated Analysis: Building A More Reliable and Traceable Microbiological Data
Data integrity and the case for automated colony countingColony counting is so routine that it is easy to forget it is a measurement. An analyst looks at a plate, counts the colonies, and writes down a number. That number flows into microbial limit results, environmental-monitoring trends, water-sys...