Editorial
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...
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...