Editorial
Survival outcome of haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a challenging and growing health issue, with number of patients increasing globally. The use of dialysis has greatly improved...
Academic Medicine in Singapore
Academic medicine is currently grappling with the problem of whether the triple-threat academician is a species threatened with extinction in the 21st century, given...
Gynaecologic Oncology—The Next Lap
Cancer of the pelvic reproductive organs and external genitalia accounts for one in six cancers in women. It can occur in women of all...
Evidence-based Medicine and Electronic Publication: Is There a Common Thread?
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and electronic publication (EP) formed the basis of two back-to-back workshops (EBM Workshop—6 & 7 June 1998 and EP Workshop—8 June...
Intensivists for the Intensive Care Unit—Do They Make a Difference?
Does Critical Care Medicine exist and what defines its area of practice? Different countries have embarked on their own journeys of discovery, and have...
Scientific Publication is Dominated by First World Countries
There is a perception among authors of scientific articles from “developing” or “third world” countries that when they submit their research papers to international...
Structured Abstracts
Structured abstracts are those that describe a study using specified content headings. In structured abstracts essential information is concisely reported using content headings (e.g....
Is the Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine Relevant in an Age of Specialisation?
This 32nd annual Singapore-Malaysia Congress (SMC) of Medicine continued the traditional medical link of the two Academies of Medicine of Singapore and Malaysia, with...
The Aftermath of the George Lundberg Affair: Comments on Editorial Independence and the Relationships...
Two months have elapsed since the controversial sacking of George D. Lundberg, the highly esteemed editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Responsibilities of an Editor?
For most societies/institutions, this is an honour that is bestowed upon a member of that organisation upon retirement of the incumbent editor, or it...