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Australian GPs Register with E-health Service.

Medical Research and Education Precinct Launched.

Another Soy Sauce Found to Contain Cancerous Chemical.

Antibiotic-free Milk Available in Shanghai Soon.

Major Life Sciences Park Launched in East China.

China Launches Major Biodiversity Programs.

India Working on DNA Park.

AHA Gives Apollo Hospitals Global Recognition.

Agreement to Share Rice Genome Data.

Increase in Plant Gene Technology Funding.

Liggins Institute Programs Win Big Grants.

Meningococcal Vaccine to Combat Epidemic.

First Anti-aging Medicine Conference in Asia Pacific.

Global Harmonization Task Force on Medical Devices.

Bioscience Asia Forum Held in Taipei.

License for Commercial Release of GM Canola.

Japan Approves GM Corn and Soy Varieties for Food.

Food Import Ban Eyed after Spinach Scare.

Control on Additives in Imported Foods to Relax.

Human Embryos Set for Medical Research in Korea.

Livestock Antibiotics No Longer Over-the-counter.

Singapore OKs Human Stem Cell Research.

Singapore Doctors Told to Keep up or Lose License.

Australia’s Biggest Medical Recall.

New Criterion for Certifying Death.

Japan Disseminates Guidelines for Treating Gastric Ulcer.

Singapore Tighten Rules for Medical Research.

Patrys to Work with CSL to Explore Antibody Drugs.

Starpharma and Lilly Sign New Drug Delivery Collaboration for Human Pharmaceuticals.

Sanofi, Minsheng in China Consumer Health Venture.

Biocon Signs MoU with Malaysia's BiotechCorp.

Biocon, Bayer Tie up to Fight Diabetes in India.

Ranbaxy to Acquire Bangalore Based Biovel Life Sciences.

DiscoveRx, Jubilant Biosys Announce Agreement for Screening Services.

BD Biosciences Collaborates with ReaMetrix to Develop New, Affordable CD4 Testing Products to Help Fight HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries.

Aegis Therapeutics and Dr. Reddy's Announce Strategic Alliance.

Penwest Enters Into Research and Development Agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceutical.

AstraZeneca and CrystalGenomics Form Research Collaboration to Develop Novel Anti-Infective Treatments.

International and Local Recognition for Singaporean Biotech Start-up – Curiox Biosystems.

Roche Establishes New Medical Research Hub in Singapore.

Virbac Unveils First Regional R&D Center in Asia.

For the month of February 2022, APBN looks at the many ways research is paving the way for improved cancer treatment outcomes. In Features, Kenneth Tan, President of Asia-Pacific, Japan and India at Varian, shares how we can accelerate the path from cancer diagnosis to therapy, improving survivorship. Then, Lance Kawaguchi, CEO of Cure Brain Cancer Foundation, writes about the importance of cancer research, its challenges, and how the Foundation is working to support brain cancer research. For our last feature, we have Dr Ahmed Abdelal, Global Head Medical Affairs Interventional Imaging and North America Head of Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Guerbet and Dr Binta Patel, North America Medical Affairs Manager, Guerbet, to give us a treatment update for hepatocellular carcinoma. Other topics covered in this issue includes the importance of trust in the pharmaceutical industry and how companies can improve trust with technology-led transparency, how we may learn from the pandemic and better prepare for the next unknown crisis, a discussion on the incidence of Omicron and Delta variants in two case studies, and an interview with a spokesperson from Novartis on their newly approved cholesterol drug.

For the months of March and April 2022, APBN looks at how we can improve and support women's reproductive health. In Features, we have Dr Samuel Prien and Dr Linsay Penrose from Texas Tech University Health Sciences on how we may select the best embryos that will provide the best chances for pregnancy; Dr Alok Javali and Dr Nicolas Rivron from IMBA-Institute of Molecular Biology in Vienna, Austria on how blastoids can be used as a drug discovery tool to improve IVF procedures; and Michelle Tan Min Shuen on reproductive genetic technology. In Columns, Sumir Bhatia, President, Asia Pacific, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group talks about the future of genome sequencing and Justin Loh, Country Director for Singapore, Veritas Technologies tells us how we may protect patient data from data breaches. In Spotlights, we recap the highlights from the Future of Healthcare Week, discussing the path forward in a post-COVID world.

In medical research, the results from seasonality analyses provide valuable information that eventually can help to clarify the etiology of poorly understood diseases. We present a Bayesian procedure for the analysis of seasonal variation in medical data. The method is a Bayesian version of a frequentist test that performs very well. Statistical seasonality analyses of medical data often involve a short time series, 12 observations with small amplitude and small sample size. Among the specialized procedures already developed for such analyses, only one is Bayesian; the method we present in this paper appears to be the second such Bayesian procedure. Easy to understand and apply, the method is versatile because it can be used to analyze different types of seasonal variation. We illustrate the procedure’s application with two examples of real data.