Commentary
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...
Surveys of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on the Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic
Statistical surveys are in general an efficient and flexible means of collecting a wide range of information from large numbers of respondents. These are...
2009 Pandemic Influenza H1N1: Paediatric Perspectives
The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, containing genes from avian, human and swine influenza viruses, emerged in North America, and caused illness in more than...
How Clinician-Scientists Think
In 1984, a 29-year-old internal medicine resident named Barry Marshall, was working in the Freemantle Hospital in Perth, Australia, when he became intrigued with...