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Limiting the Use of Primary Endocrine Therapy in Elderly Women With Breast Cancer
There is a tendency to opt for non-surgical interventions in elderly women with breast cancer. Although surgery offers the most effective form of locoregional...
How to Bridge the “Valley of Death” Between a Research Discovery and Clinical Application?
As physicians, one of the key questions we often ask is, “How do we bring new understanding of disease mechanisms and better treatments to...
Internet Addiction in Young People
The Internet has in recent years become ubiquitous in the lives of young persons and children due to rapid information technology (IT) development, high...
Implications of Morbid Obesity and Surgery for the Obese
Since the dawn of mankind, the survival of the species theory mandates the adaptation of complex mammalian bodies to harsh climates and unfavourable environments....
Chikungunya in Singapore—the Battle Continues
In the past decade, Singapore has been confronted by outbreaks caused by novel viruses, namely Nipah virus in 1999, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)...
Advances in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Bariatric surgery is the euphemistic name for the surgical treatment of severe or morbid obesity. Weight loss is induced by 2 main mechanisms. The...
Does Experience Meet Expectations Among General Surgical Trainees in Australia and New Zealand?
One of the key aspects to become a skilful surgeon is to acquire the technical competence in performing the various operations safely. Several changes...
200 years of surgery at the General Hospital, Singapore
Western medicine in Singapore began with Sir Stamford Raffles’ arrival on 28 January 1819 with a sub-assistant surgeon, Dr Thomas Prendergast, providing medical care...
Is Cost-Effective Healthcare Compatible with Publicly Financed Academic Medical Centres?
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
—Louis D Brandeis
As a...
Early Influences in Childhood Obesity—Implications for Adult Metabolic Disease
In the past 20 years, an epidemic of adult and childhood obesity has swept through the developed world resulting in the “globesity” epidemic. This...