Commentary
Personalised and Precision Pain Medicine—A Dream Coming True?
In the past 10 years, numerous leaders in pain management have pioneered efforts to raise the awareness of pain medicine. Two notable initiatives included...
Secondary Fracture Prevention: Plucking The Low Hanging Fruit
“Osteoporosis care of fracture patients has been
characterized as the Bermuda Triangle made up
of orthopaedists, primary care physicians and
osteoporosis experts into which the fracture
patient disappears”
One...
Time for Training in Psychiatric Ethics
One of the leading lights of modern psychiatry, Nancy Andreasen, once wrote this about the practice of psychiatry:
We chose psychiatry because we want to
understand...
Freezing the Biological Clock: A Viable Fertility Preservation Option for Young Singapore Women?
For almost 4 decades, Singapore has experienced total fertility rates (TFR) below population replacement levels and which have stubbornly defied a raft of pro-family
policies...
Providing Hope in Terminal Cancer: When is it Appropriate and When is it Not?
Hope is essential in the face of terminal cancer. Generally in Western societies, patients and their families prefer their doctor to engage them in...
Why We Do Caesars: A Comparison of the Trends in Caesarean Section Delivery over...
Increasing rates of caesarean deliveries have received widespread attention in recent years with increased awareness in the public domain. In the United Kingdom, caesarean...
The Role of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ)- focused Psychosocial Approaches as...
Earlier this year, the American Psychological Association passed a resolution endorsing its support for a combination approach towards human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, one...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Prevention Education in Singapore: Challenges for the Future
There are currently an estimated 34 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) worldwide. In Singapore, the cumulative total of HIV-infected Singapore residents...
World Mental Health Day
In medical disease, there are physical and/or mental symptoms and generally, there is a recognised aetiology, demonstrable pathology and predictable course i.e. based on...
Policy Implications of The Singapore Mental Health Study
Mental health issues have taken on greater importance with the growing awareness among policy makers of the importance of mental health for the development...