Editorial
Obstetricians, Perhaps It’s Time to Change Lenses
Times have changed. Maternal mortality rates at the start of the 1900s were around 1 in 100 live births in the best maternity institutions....
Successful Ageing in Singapore—A Viable Goal?
Ageing is a complex process. Achieving it successfully has implications and significance not only for individuals on a personal level but for society at...
Academic Medicine: Vision to Reality
Why Develop Academic Medicine in Singapore?
There are at least 2 reasons why Academic Medicine that is properly developed can add value. The first is...
Understanding Intra-tumour Heterogeneity—The Next Holy Grail of Cancer Therapeutics?
Advances in strategies to characterise tumours in the last decade have uncovered distinct molecular subtypes with prognostic and predictive relevance in both solid tumours...
Improving the End-of-Life Experience in Singapore: Building Capacity in Palliative Care Education and Research
Singapore is ageing rapidly. Whereas ageing symbolises advancements that the country has made in public health and medicine over the past few decades, it...
Preventive Child Healthcare in Singapore: A Parents’ Well-Being Perspective
Singapore has made remarkable achievements in child and maternal healthcare through significant reduction made in childhood and perinatal morality rates. A number of “new...
Violence Against Healthcare Staff – A Multidimensional Problem
Aggression and violence is prevalent in healthcare, with rates of 60% worldwide. Potentially, 70% of Singapore’s hospital staff have experienced physical abuse, given significant...
Helping People with Mental Illness Return to Employment: Challenging Existing Beliefs
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was asked once what makes people happy. His reply was, “love and work.” Employment does contribute many benefits...
Angiotensin 2 Type 1 Receptor Blockade with Neprilysin Inhibition for Chronic Heart Failure: A...
A new treatment for heart failure (HF) combining angiotensin 2 type 1 receptor blockade with inhibition of the widespread membrane-bound enzyme, neprilysin (NEP), seems...
Mentorship in Academic Medicine: A Catalyst of Talents
The field of medicine is complex. Its interwoven structure of clinical practice, medical education and biomedical research, coupled with intricacies of the health system,...