Editorial

Does Critical Care Medicine exist and what defines its area of practice? Different countries have embarked on their own journeys of discovery, and have...

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 are those that describe a study using specified content headings. In structured abstracts essential information is concisely reported using content headings (e.g....

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...

Two months have elapsed since the controversial sacking of George D. Lundberg, the highly esteemed editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...

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...

The application of the experimental approach to Science and Medicine has its roots in the 16th century. William Harvey (1578-1657), who demonstrated the passage...

To the clinical specialists, epidemiology appears to be a hyphenated word associated with their clinical specialty: for example, cancer-epidemiology, cardiovascular-epidemiology, infectious disease-epidemiology and occupational-epidemiology....

Are medicines dangerous chemicals or life enhancing agents? The answer is ‘Both of those things, often at the same time, and worse in the...

The term “obesity” implies an excess of adipose tissue (fat) and excess adiposity is a health risk. In most cases it develops in the...