Letter to the Editor
Palm Printing on Agar Plates of Hands of Health Care Workers from the Intensive...
Nosocomial infections are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitals resulting in increasing health care costs. The intensive care unit...
Re: One-year Review of Pityriasis Rosea at the National Skin Centre, Singapore
I refer to a paper published in the Annals Vol. 28 No. 6 November 1999 titled “One-year review of pityriasis rosea at the National...
Graves’ disease after COVID-19 vaccination
Dear Editor,
Case 1 was a 41-year-old man with a history of primary hyperthyroidism. At the time of diagnosis, thyroglobulin antibodies were elevated although no...
Impact of COVID-19 infections among kidney transplant recipients
Dear Editor,
More than 2 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, cases continue to climb despite global efforts at viral control. This is...
Paediatric living-donor liver and kidney transplantation during COVID-19
Dear Editor,
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted global healthcare including paediatric solid organ transplantation (SOT). We report our experience of resuming paediatric...
The evolution of severity of paediatric COVID-19 in Singapore: Vertical transmission and multisystem inflammatory...
Dear Editor,
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) arrived in Singapore in January 2020 as imported cases, followed by local transmission predominantly involving dormitories, with later spread...
Systemic antibiotic prophylaxis for recurrent infective flares in children and adolescents with atopic dermatitis
Dear Editor,
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, affecting approximately 20% of children in Singapore.1 It is associated with skin barrier defects2...
Fifty Years of PULHHEEMS—The British Army’s System of Medical Classification
The development of the British Army’s system of medical classification illustrates concepts that are very relevant to modern occupational health. In 1939, there was...
Re: 188Rhenium-TDD-Lipiodol in Treatment of Inoperable Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma—A Case Report
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy that is best treated by surgery. However, in the vast majority, surgery is not possible and alternative...
Letter to the Editor
We would like to draw the attention of your readers to the comments made in the editorial of the recent Imaging issue of your...