Editorial
Mental Health in Singapore: A Quiet Revolution?
Worldwide there are about 450 million individuals in all societies who, in their lifetime, will suffer from a neuropsychiatric disorder that would exact a...
Outcomes in Medical Education
Since its inception in 2003, the Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) has focused on one relevant, practical, and contemporary aspect of medical education....
An Outcomes Approach to Evaluate Professional Development Programmes for Medical Educators
Do our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes provide significant measurable and desirable results? The key metric for evaluating programmes in the past has been...
Challenges in Paediatric Asthma Today
Asthma today affects more than 300 million people worldwide and its prevalence is increasing, particularly among children. The rise in asthma prevalence has been...
Cardiovascular Genetics – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
The recent publication of 2 studies of the genetics of coronary heart disease1,2 provides an opportune moment to reassess strategies and progress towards the...
Neuro-oncology at the Crossroads
The notion of a tumour in the brain is a most terrifying prospect for most individuals and many physicians. Yet brain tumour is the...
One Size Does Not Fit All: Observations on the “Phenomenon of Two-thirds” in Clinical...
In clinical medicine the diagnosis is often established according to a known aetiology or an elucidated patho-physiology. A recent trend in management is to...
Chronic Kidney Disease: The ABC of Nephrology
To this day, in many parts of Asia, paediatricians are still grappling with the childhood problems of infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition. With...
Twenty-five Facts about Kidney Disease in Singapore: In Remembrance of World Kidney Day
World Kidney Day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and other nephrology organisations, which will be observed annually on the...
Rheumatology in Singapore – Moving Forward
The practice of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology has made big strides in the last decade. The availability of immune modifiers, e.g. anti-cytokine agents, has...