Commentary
Identification of a Common Genetic Risk Variant (LRRK2 Gly2385Arg) in Parkinson’s Disease
For diseases with complex inheritance, the age-old debate regarding the relative contribution of gene-environment interaction never fails to generate interest, discussion and hypothesis within...
Comparison of Chinese Medicine Education and Training in China and Australia
Chinese medicine (CM) has a long history in China and in a number of Asian countries. Over the last 3 decades, CM has been...
Student Academic Committees: An Approach to Obtain Students’ Feedback
The shift of medical curricula from a traditional subject based to an integrated module-based system can be seen in many medical schools worldwide. The...
Ethical Issues in Ophthalmology and Vision Research
The importance of ethics in research was highlighted in the USA when a healthy volunteer subject, 24-year-old Ellen Roche, died in a Johns Hopkins...
Buprenorphine-associated Deaths in Singapore
Buprenorphine is a thebaine derivative that was developed in the 1970s for pain relief. It was approved for substitution therapy in France in 1996,...
Amendment of the Human Organ Transplant Act
Kidney transplants have been carried out in Singapore for more than 35 years, with the first cadaveric kidney transplant operation performed on 8 July...
SARS Plague: Duty of Care or Medical Heroism?
SARS has been described as a Chinese plague because it emerged from the colourful markets of wild animals and the exotic kitchens of Guangdong,...
SARS: How to Manage Future Outbreaks?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which crossed from wild animals at live markets to man in mid-November...
Methodologies for Interventional Myopia Studies
Past studies on intervention in myopia progression have given conflicting results. For example, in the past, studies on (PMMA) hard contact lenses took researchers...
Clinical Cases Seen in Tsunami Hit Banda Aceh – From a Primary Health Care...
Earthquakes and tsunamis can cause massive destruction over large areas, affecting the lives of many in areas hit by such disasters. The local health...