Editorial
Dissecting Complex Genetic Diseases: Promises and Perils
Advances in molecular techniques and technology have unravelled many of the secrets of diseases caused by single gene defects. In particular, the race to...
An Open Invitation from the International Poverty and Health Network to All Health Professionals...
Always and everywhere, the challenge for all health professionals is to understand, from a position of relative comfort, the nature and extent of the...
Complementary Medicine and Evidence
While clinical medicine is increasingly governed by demands for evidence-based practice and biomedical research increasingly moves towards molecular approaches in the search for new...
Evidence-based Complementary Medicine—Challenges and Future Directions
There is considerable interest in complementary medicine (CM) and the usage of various alternative therapies is reportedly at an all-time high in the West....
Delirium in patients following general anaesthesia
Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness characterised by an acute onset and fluctuating course of inattention, accompanied by either a change in cognition or...
The relationship between major depressive disorder and employment status
Major depressive disorder is associated with executive dysfunction that includes impairment in problem-solving and decision-making,1 as well as with occupational impairment.2 One of the...
Casemix in Singapore—A Clinician’s Perspective
Supplement on Casemix Conference Singapore 2001 held on 17-19 August 2001 in Singapore
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Obesity in Singapore
The word obesity implies an excess of adipose tissue (fat) and not merely an excess of body weight. An increase in body weight may...
Genes, Work and Health
Occupational health has been aptly described as a two-way relationship between work and health. This has served as a useful model emphasizing that workplace...
Problem-based Learning: Issues and Challenges
Health science curricula have been undergoing changes worldwide and the medical and dental faculties at the National University of Singapore have also just reorganised...