Commentary
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...
Wound Infections in Tsunami Survivors: A Commentary
The Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004 killed over 225,000 people,1 but it had an impact on far more than the 12 countries...
Transforming Singapore Health Care: Public-Private Partnership
Should health care services be publicly or privately funded? And should these services be publicly or privately provided? The answers to these questions largely...
Harnessing the IT Factor in Medical Education
In this digital age, we are constantly inundated with breathtaking images worthy of an Ansel Adams photograph or a Zhang Yimou film. Is it...