TOKYO, Feb 7, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), NEC Corporation (NEC) and Nagasaki University, Japan, have developed a digital biometric-based vaccination management system for newborn children in Kenya. Validation of this system is taking place through KEMRI with a clinical trial that began in September 2022 at the... » read more
HONG KONG, Aug 3, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Zhaoke Ophthalmology Limited (“Zhaoke Ophthalmology” or “the Company”, SEHK: 6622), a leading ophthalmic pharmaceutical company dedicated to the research and development, manufacturing and commercialization of treatments that address significant unmet medical needs, is excited to announce that the patient enrollments for the two-year Phase... » read more
Cambridge, MA, Jul 19, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has granted provisional registration for the use of Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, in a two-dose series of 25 ug per... » read more
LONDON, Jan 31, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Verofax, a Smart serialization and traceability solution provider, has joined forces with children’s STEM app Twin Science and LikeToBe in sponsoring a scientific expedition to Antarctica to research the effects of microplastics on life, the environment and the melting of ice caps. Verofax, Twin &... » read more
SINGAPORE – More than 300,000 children aged five to 11 will progressively be able to book their Covid-19 vaccination appointments from next week, if the delivery of the paediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine arrives as scheduled. The vaccination exercise will start from the end of December for the older children in Primary 3 to... » read more
SINGAPORE – Children from five to 11 years old will be able to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine from the end of the month. Vaccination for this group will begin once new batches of the vaccine are received, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement on Friday (Dec 10) night. Those aged between... » read more
SINGAPORE – Four children here infected with Covid-19 have also come down with a rare and severe inflammatory syndrome, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced last Saturday (Nov 6). Among those with multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a four-year-old boy who is in the children’s intensive care unit, with his breathing supported by mechanical... » read more
SINGAPORE – Since Sunday (Oct 10), home recovery has become the default option for children aged five and above as Covid-19 is not a serious illness for most of them. However, some parents told The Straits Times they prefer their infected kids to stay in hospital, where they can receive medical attention quickly. The access... » read more
SINGAPORE – When five-year-old Agil plays with his pre-school classmates, he does not treat them differently despite how they might interact or behave. His father Muhammad Izhar Abdul Rahman attributes this to Agil’s experience attending Ilham Child Care since he was 18 months old. There have always been children with special needs in his class,... » read more
SINGAPORE – While a review is underway to assess if anyone who works with children needs to be screened, The Sunday Times looks at practices other countries use to keep children safe. In the United States, a public sex offender registry allows anyone to search for offenders using their names or locations in any of... » read more
SINGAPORE – For a number of years, former primary school teacher Chock Soon Seng taught Chinese to primary and secondary school students as a freelance tutor. But he had a dark secret – the 43-year-old was convicted twice for sexually abusing boys. He was jailed for 10 months in 2010, when as a primary school... » read more
Covid-19 bad? Yes, but Ms Rachel Lim, 20, a politics, philosophy and economics student at the Yale-National University of Singapore College, turned the crisis into an opportunity. It was “perfect”, she says. Even fortuitous for her future. Yes, Covid-19 dashed her plans to study abroad last year. But it led to her applying for a... » read more
SINGAPORE – Pre-school children here can develop racial preferences by the age of three, especially if they belong to the majority race, a study by Nanyang Technological University has found. The study showed that Chinese children in pre-schools, unlike their Indian peers, showed implicit bias (unconscious attitudes) and explicit bias (overt biased behaviours) favouring their... » read more
SINGAPORE – There will be more entry restrictions at preschools and early intervention centres from Saturday (May 8), including a ban on all parents except those with newly enrolled children. Mixing of children between different classes will also not be allowed, while field trips and other large group activities conducted outside centres will be suspended.... » read more
SINGAPORE – During the circuit breaker that started in April last year, Ms Chew Lee Ching noticed that young children were particularly affected as they had fewer opportunities to mix with others their age. “My grandson was stuck at home all the time and I was looking at the way he interacts and plays,” she... » read more
SINGAPORE – A landmark study here has found that children whose parents have had criminal convictions are significantly more likely to get into trouble with the law themselves. Specifically, children whose parents were convicted for their offences are about three times as likely to have been convicted of an offence themselves. Please subscribe or log... » read more