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Abuse of Prescription Buprenorphine, Regulatory Controls and the Role of the Primary Physician
Buprenorphine is an opiate partial agonist that has been used for pain management, and in the past few years has been approved for the...
Complications Relating to Intravenous Buprenorphine Abuse: A Single Institution Case Series
Buprenorphine, more commonly known as Subutex (Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals), has been released in Singapore since 2002. Initially marketed as an opiate substitute to help...
Gwee Ah Leng (1920-2006)
I have known Dr Gwee Ah Leng since 1949. We did our housemanship together but he was a few months senior to me.
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Speech by Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, Chairman of the National Research Foundation at...
I would first like to thank the Academy of Medicine for kindly inviting my wife and me to join you at your Induction Dinner...
Citation on Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam for Admission to Honorary Fellowship, Academy of...
It is indeed my privilege and honour to read the citation on Dr Tony Tan, a visionary who has made great contributions to our...
Address by Master, Academy of Medicine, Singapore at the 2006 Induction Ceremony and Dinner...
May I on behalf of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore welcome you to the Academy of Medicine’s 2006 Induction Ceremony. First and foremost, we...
A Complex, Contagious, Evolutionary Habit
Yawning is often noted in medical seminars and conferences – be they surgical, orthopaedic, gastroenterological, endocrinological or neurological. Yet, this condition receives little coverage...
Neonatal Priapism Associated With Spontaneous Bilateral Pyocavernositis
Priapism is a pathological state of prolonged, generally painful erection, unassociated with sexual desire and not ending in ejaculation. Rare before the 1980s, this...
The Role of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in the Diagnosis and Management of Retinal...
Retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP), initially described as deep retinal vascular anomalous complex in 1992 by Hartnett et al, has been recently defined as a...
Guidelines on Cardiac CT in Singapore (2006)
The heart is difficult to image because of its complex wall motion and variability of the cardiac cycle. Recent advances in 16 and 64-slice...