Original Article
Medium to Long-Term Clinical Outcomes with Everolimus-Eluting Stents in Real-Life Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES) has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in many randomised controlled trials and...
Male Breast Cancer in Singapore: 15 Years of Experience at a Single Tertiary Institution
Male breast cancer is a rare disease entity, traditionally said to represent <1% of all diagnosed breast cancers. Recent statistics, however, suggest that its...
Do Parents Talk to Their Adolescent Children about Sex?—Findings from a Community Survey in...
HIV/AIDS is now the third leading cause of disease burden worldwide. Risky sexual behaviours acquired during adolescence, such as early sexual initiation, unprotected intercourse,...
“How Much Can I Take?”: Predictors of Perceived Burden for Relatives of People with...
Having a relative with a chronic illness can be very stressful for the family. A majority of these illnesses are disabling and pose numerous...
Clinical and Radiological Manifestations of Primary Tracheobronchial Tumours: A Single Centre Experience
Tracheobronchial tumours can occur in the form of a variety of benign or low- and high-grade malignant tumours. The symptoms of an endobronchial tumour...
SOX40L: An Important Inflammatory Mediator in Adult Bronchial Asthma
Bronchial asthma is a kind of chronic airway inflammatory disease which is associated with the infiltration of eosinophils, mastocytes, and T lymphocytes, and the...
Determinants of Late-Stage HIV Disease at Diagnosis in Singapore, 1996 to 2009
The first case of HIV infection in Singapore was diagnosed in 1985, and the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in September 1986. Since...
The Excess Financial Burden of Multidrug Resistance in Severe Gram-negative Infections in Singaporean Hospitals
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a burden on healthcare systems in both developed as well as developing nations, resulting in prolonged hospitalisation, poor outcomes and...
The Medical, Functional and Social Challenges Faced by Older Adults with Intellectual Disability
Older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their caregivers are sometimes overlooked in the planning and delivery of health services; and unfortunately, are sometimes...
Borderline Viability—Neonatal Outcomes of Infants in Singapore over a Period of 18 Years (1990...
Advances in perinatal and neonatal care have resulted in the increased survival of extremely preterm infants in the nineties. As limits of viability continue...