Editorial
The case for better hospitalisation selection in cancer patients
Public hospital occupancy rates and resource utilisation in Singapore are perennially high. In the last 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been...
The Annals: Welcoming the future of Medicine
What started as a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei Province, in December 2019, has since evolved...
Disability and Leprosy: The Way Forward
Leprosy is one of the major causes of preventable disability, including impairments, problems in activities of daily life and social exclusion resulting from stigma.1-3...
Of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Rehabilitation Physician
Rehabilitation Medicine or Physiatry (as is known in North America) is the medical specialty dealing with “restoration of function in people affected by physical...
Using Medical Students as Research Subjects: Is It Ethical?
Should medical students be allowed to participate in clinical research? One guiding principle, as stated in the rules governing the use of medical students...
Chronic Pain Management: Therapy, Drugs and Needles
In 1931, the French medical missionary Dr Albert Schweitzer wrote, “Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself”. Seventy years...
Malignant Lymphoma – A Changing Spectrum
As 15 September 2009 was World Lymphoma Awareness Day, it is perhaps timely to review the subject of malignant lymphoma. There is an increasing...
Neuroradiology: From Diagnosis to Intervention
Advances in technology and innovation in radiology has enhanced and expanded the role of radiology in clinical practice and research. Radiology itself has developed...
Diastolic Heart Failure: What, So What and Now What?
Until two decades ago, the notion that heart failure (HF) could occur in the presence of normal ejection fraction (EF) was met with great...
Expanding the Scope of Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection
The 2010 Global Report on AIDS contains some welcome news: the number of annual AIDS-related deaths has continued to decrease from a peak of...