Editorial
Retooling for Changing Circumstances
The Annals, as many of you will already have noted, looked different in the first quarter of the year. Starting with the July 2001...
Evolution of Intensive Care Medicine in Singapore
Singapore is a founding member of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (WPACCM). We hosted the Inaugural Congress of the Association in...
34th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine/Combined Medical and Dental Scientific Meeting—3 to 6 August 2000
The Singapore–Malaysia Congress of Medicine is now well into its 34th year. The meeting has certainly grown in strength irrespective of the presence or...
Stapled Haemorrhoidectomy—The Evidence For and the Facts Against
Surgeons as well as patients have recently shown much interest in stapled haemorrhoidectomy. This is a new technique, which is claimed to result in...
Internal Medicine
It has taken a long time to plan for this November issue in Internal Medicine. The topic is so wide and often neglected as...
50th Anniversary Celebrations—Golden ……. but all is not gold
On an occasion such as this—the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of orthopaedic surgery as a specialty service in Singapore—acclaim, commendations, praise and endorsement...
Chronic Disease Management: Challenges for Clinicians and the Way Forward
The healthcare, financial and social burden of chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease, hypertension, chronic depression,...
Medical Disorders in Pregnancy—The Challenges Ahead
Nowhere is the fate of two individuals more closely intertwined than that of the mother and her fetus. Pregnancy is a unique state where...
Should Ethical Issues in Biotechnology Research be Decided by Physicians-Scientists or by Lawyers?
As with clinical practice, the practice of biomedical research is a moral activity. We have to think about what we should do, not just...
Osteoporosis: A Treatable Disease
Osteoporosis twenty years ago was a very different disease from what we know of it today. At that time a diagnosis of osteoporosis was...