Commentary
Practical Operations Research Applications for Healthcare Managers
Operations Research, also known as Operational Research (OR) or Management Science, existed as a scientific discipline since the 1930s. It is the discipline of...
Enigmas in Psychiatry
Many practitioners of medicine find psychiatry “woolly” and difficult to grasp or understand. This article focuses on “Enigmas in Psychiatry” and hopes to clarify...
Imaging in Schizophrenia: Looking Back and Peering Ahead
Clearly, schizophrenia does not readily lend itself to finding simple answers. As well as being clinically heterogeneous, it is not a disorder of one...
Genetics of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Looking Back and Peering Ahead
The hereditary nature of schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders has been long recognised. The first systematic family study of schizophrenia dates back to 1916...
Neuroimaging of Schizophrenia: What it Reveals About the Disease and What it Tells us...
Neuroimaging promises much in the age of modern technology driven medicine to both patient and clinician. Its immediate and vivid images of the living...
Neurobiology of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
The schizophrenia spectrum disorders are a group of psychiatric diagnoses that share several clinical features, typically involving reality distortion. Each is considered a disorder,...
Haemophilia in 21st Century Singapore
The recognition that a bleeding diasthesis can arise as an inherited disorder was documented as far back as the 2nd century ACE in Talmudic...
An Overview of Transplantation in Culturally Diverse Regions
Over the last 5 decades, organ transplantation has
established itself as one of the most progressive areas of
medicine. Technical advances together with immunological
and pharmacological progress...
The Ethics of Organ Transplantation: Shortages and Strategies
One of the most significant advances in critical care medicine during the last 40 years is the development of organ transplantation. Successful transplantations give...
The Role of Research in Transplantation
Organ and bone marrow transplantation have been extraordinary success stories in medicine during the past 50 years. A large and important clinical service has...