Editorial
High-Sensitivity Troponin Assays: Boon or Bane for the Cardiologist?
The advent of the “troponin era” has its roots in the redefinition of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) by the joint committee of European and...
Social Support for Older Adults—A Bane or a Boon for their Health?
Older, compared to younger, adults are more likely to experience physical and cognitive impairment and functional limitations, which may limit their daily activities. Consequently,...
Dengue Disease Modelling and Forecasting: Utility and Limitations
In a joint statement issued earlier this year, the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that dengue cases this year...
The Art of Public Health in the Context of a Paradigm Shift
Despite advancements in medical technologies, the art of medicine based on a one-to-one doctor-patient relationship has remained largely unchanged. Hippocrates, the founder of medicine,...
Active Ageing to Gerotranscendence
Ageing, old age and death have piqued the interest of philosophers and writers since antiquity. Confucius related ageing to maturity and wisdom,1 while Shakespeare
described...
Missed Appointments at a Diabetes Centre: Not a Small Problem
Fundamental to optimal diabetes management is good patient self-care and regular follow-up with health professionals. Missed appointment may disrupt the continuity of diabetes care,...
The End of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Singapore – Are We There Yet?
World AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) Day was first commemorated in 1988. It has since taken place on 1 December annually, and is a reminder...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): “Not a Cigarette Only Pulmonary Disease”
Since 2002, World COPD Day is celebrated yearly in November to raise awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) globally. ‘The Many Faces of...
World Antibiotic Awareness Week
World Antibiotic Awareness Week falls on 13 to 19 November this year, the fifth since its inception in 2013. This World Health Organization (WHO)...
Hypertension Management and Prevention: The Devil is Ever in the Details of Targets
Since the 1990s the development of the chemical treatment of human disorders, based on principles of human physiology, and clinical pharmaco-kinetics and -dynamics, has...