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Phosph-Akt1 Expression is Associated with a Favourable Prognosis in Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide with an estimated 34,290 deaths recorded in the United States in 2008....
An Eight Year Review of Exercise-related Cardiac Arrests
Exercise-related cardiac arrest is uncommon, however it is devastating when it occurs in otherwise healthy adults. In young adults, vigorous physical exercise trigger cardiac...
Evaluation on the Effectiveness of the National Childhood Immunisation Programme in Singapore, 1982-2007
Singapore has a comprehensive National Childhood Immunisation Programme (NCIP) which first covered smallpox (1862), followed by diphtheria (1938), tuberculosis (TB) (1957), poliomyelitis (1958), pertussis...
Peripheral Arterial Disease in Community-based Patients with Diabetes in Singapore: Results from a Primary...
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a significant complication of diabetes mellitus and accounts for the majority of amputations among these patients with diabetes. In...
Intraretinal Segmentation on Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become an indispensable tool in the management of retinal and optic nerve diseases as well as in clinical trials....
Timing of Arrival to a Tertiary Hospital after Acute Ischaemic Stroke – A Follow-up...
Intravenous tPA is a proven treatment for acute ischaemic stroke. However as it has to be given in a narrow time window from symptom...
Epidemiological Characteristics of Cholera in Singapore, 1992-2007
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that usually presents as abrupt massive watery diarrhoea and vomiting. The causative organism is Vibrio cholerae which is...
The Need for a System of Prognostication in Skeletal Metastasis to Decide Best End-of-life...
Decisions regarding potential surgery for metastatic disease are influenced by estimates of patient survival. For example, patients with long life expectancy may be appropriately...
Foot Screening for Diabetics
Prevalence of diabetes is high in Singapore (8.2%). Five per cent to 15% of diabetics developed foot ulcers. In fact, the lifetime risk for...
Incidence, Mortality and Five-year Relative Survival Ratio of Prostate Cancer among Chinese Residents in...
Prostate cancer is now the third most common cancer among Singapore males, with a world age-standardised incidence rate (ASIR) of 23.9 per 100,000 from...