Editorial
Managing Suicide Ideation: A Targeted Approach
Suicide, the deliberate act to end one’s life, has been described as the “result of fractures with oneself”.1 It could manifest as a direct...
First, Do No Harm: Why Breastfeeding Matters
World Breastfeeding Week—celebrated internationally between 1st and 7th August every year—is an event supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health...
World Hepatitis Day 2019 – Bringing Medical Advances to Every Man
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 257 million people worldwide have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and another 71 million people have...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Road Traffic Accident Survivors – Can We Do More?
Medicine and technology are closely intertwined. Technology has opened a plethora of possibilities to medical treatments with better imaging and diagnostic devices, novel intervention...
Smoking and Electronic Cigarettes – Old Problem, New Challenges
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality worldwide. More than 1 billion deaths have been projected to be attributed to tobacco...
Stem Cell Replacement Therapies in Parkinson’s Disease
World Parkinson’s Disease Day—which falls on 11 April—commemorates the birthday of the late physician and geologist, James Parkinson. All around the world, efforts are...
Tuberculosis in Singapore: Past and Future
Tuberculosis—a curable and largely preventable disease—remains one of the top 10 global causes of death today. In 2017, the World Health Organization estimated that...
Cancer in 2019 – Progress and Challenges – A Perspective
Patients with cancer today are doing better than they ever have been in the past. Survival rates are higher; and survival time is longer...
World Cancer Day 2019 – Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” Sir...
Deep Learning in Medicine. Are We Ready?
The real-world application of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), have generated significant interest throughout the computer science and medical...