Editorial
Lung Cancer: Recent Advances
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related mortality in the world. It accounts for almost a million deaths annually and resulted in...
Preventive Psychiatry
In medicine, measures that save the most lives and improved the quality of life of millions have largely been public health measures that in...
Asthma: The Need for Good Control
World Asthma Day is an annual event organised by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) in collaboration with healthcare groups and asthma educators to...
Health Services Research: Why it Matters to Health Policy Makers and Clinicians
In Singapore, there appears to be a recent unprecedented flurry of interest in health services research (HSR), a fairly distinct and recognisable activity, within...
The Growing Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: Role of the Arterial-Cardiac Interaction
World Heart Day was inaugurated to increase global awareness that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world’s leading cause of death, claiming, according to the...
Con Brioso E Rigore! – Understanding the Neurobiology of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
One of the authors (KS) had finished his daily ward round with the multidisciplinary team in an acute inpatient ward a few moments earlier,...
Personalised Medicine for Psoriasis: A Real Possibility Ahead
In the last decade, our understanding of psoriasis has increased by leaps and bounds, resulting in many new targeted therapies being introduced for those...
Organ and Tissue Transplantation
There could not have been a more appropriate time as now for a special issue of the Annals dedicated to transplantation. The topic is...
Alzheimer’s disease–The Inexorable Epidemic
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia which refers collectively to syndromes of progressive deterioration of memory along with other cognitive...
Beyond Blood Safety
World Blood Donor Day takes place on 14 June each year. Established in 2005 by the World Health Assembly, it aims to raise global...