Editorial
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,...
Too Much Medicine: Time to Stop Indiscriminate Cancer Screening
Like most industrialised countries in the world, cancer has now become the leading cause of mortality in Singapore. Approximately 1 in 3 deaths in...
MERS-CoV: Where Are We Now?
Prior to 2002, coronaviruses were known mainly for causing mild human upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) and enteric and respiratory infections in many animals....
A Decade of Progress in the Understanding, Prevention and Treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration...
The year 2014 had marked the 10th anniversary of the nationwide Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Week in Singapore.1 This public health campaign, organised...
Emergency Medicine Residency Programme in Singapore—Where Are We at Since Inception?
It has been 4.5 years since the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME-I) accredited competency-based emergency medicine residency programmes were started in July...
Prenatal Diagnosis of Chromosomal Abnormalities—Shifting Paradigm
It is very likely that in 10 years time, invasive prenatal diagnostic tests like amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS) will join the club...
Evidence-balanced Medicine: “Real” Evidence-based Medicine in the Elderly
Case 1: An 85-year-old male with past history of hypertension is otherwise healthy and enjoys his daily walks and good food. During a health...