Editorial
Lessons in Case Management for the Physician
The emergence and rapid proliferation of case management programmes, quality improvement projects, and continuous improvement plans is a prominent feature of the medical landscape...
Parkinson’s Disease: Looking Back, Looking Forward
April is significant to sufferers and supporters of Parkinson’s disease (PD) for two events: the death of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II on...
Preventive Nephrology: A Time for Action
The incidence of new end-stage renal failure (ESRF) treated with dialysis in Singapore has risen from 96 per million population (pmp) in 1992 to...
Practising Otology and Neuro-otology in Singapore
Otology/Neuro-otology is a well-defined subspecialty of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose & Throat) practice that deals with conditions related to the ear and its neural pathways....
Prevention of Blindness in Singapore: No Room for Complacency
It is now a well-known fact that Singapore’s population is greying dramatically due to the ageing of the “baby boomers” – defined as those...
Alzheimer’s Disease – Towards More Patient-centred and Meaningful Clinical Outcomes
More than 100 years ago Alois Alzheimer first presented the clinical and pathological features of an unusual brain disease at his seminal lecture in...
To Kill a Mocking Bird Flu?
Why devote an entire issue of the Annals to pandemic influenza when there are so many other pressing health needs around us? With a...
Singapore and the Tobacco Pandemic
The World Health Organization, in its 2008 Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, has framed the problem in almost apocalyptic terms, in stating that...
Sports Medicine
The National Survey on Sports Participation showed that the number of Singaporeans who exercised regularly at least once a week doubled from 24% in...
Embryonic Stem Cells and Parkinson’s Disease: Cell Transplantation to Cell Therapy
Although levodopa is currently a well-endorsed form of treatment for Parkinson’s Disease (PD), the search for a safe, long-term and dyskinesia-free treatment remains an...