Editorial
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...
Modern Medicine: To Share, To Educate, To Investigate
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Challenges in Geriatric Medicine: Geriatric Services and Education
Ignatz Nascher first proposed disease and medical care of the aged as a separate specialty and invented the term “geriatrics” in 1909. However, the...
The Role of Influenza Vaccine in Healthcare Workers in the Era of Severe Acute...
The new coronavirus responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) found its first victims in healthcare workers with attack rates of more than 50%...
Recent Advances in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The science and art of providing quality health care to women has made tremendous strides in recent years. In the subspecialties of Obstetrics and...
The Past Decade of Diagnostic Radiology in Singapore: How Much Progress Have We Really...
It has been 10 years since the first ever issue of Annals dedicated to “Radiology” was published in Volume 22 No. 5 September 1993....
Challenges in Perinatal Medicine
One of the significant milestones in the perinatal care in Singapore is the birth of the Perinatal Society of Singapore in March 1989. This...