Review Article
Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) – Twenty Years On
In 1982, Heald et al1 at the Basingstoke District General Hospital introduced the concept of total mesorectal excision (TME) as a means of performing...
Nipah Encephalitis Outbreak in Malaysia
From September 1998 to June 1999, there was an outbreak of viral encephalitis in several pig farming villages in Malaysia. The outbreak, which started...
Adolescent Health Education Programmes: Theoretical Principles in Design and Delivery
Over the past three decades, the patterns of health need in youth have changed. Psychosocial problems such as depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, sexually...
Art and “the Language of Well-Being” in Adolescent Health Care
Creative processes involve imagining, making unexpected connections, maintaining discipline while letting go of controlling the outcome, opening oneself to pleasure, and moving beyond frustration....
From Recreation to Creative Expression: The Essential Features of an Adolescent Inpatient Psychosocial Support...
In 1984, the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne, Australia opened a new ward specifically for adolescent inpatients. This initiative was the result of...
Clinical Assessment, Management and Outcomes of a Group of Adolescents Presenting with Complex Medico-psychosocial...
Increased sensitivity to biological change can make adolescents particularly vulnerable to non-organic symptomatic disorders. A variety of pains, headaches, dizziness and fatigue may remain...
Strategies to Promote Better Outcomes in Young People with Chronic Illnesses
The epidemiology of child health in the developed world is changing. Mortality from infectious diseases has fallen sharply over the past century due to...
Adolescent Alcohol and Other Substance Use: Sharing the Australian Experience
The most common causes of morbidity in adolescence often have behavioural or social determinants, and can have enormous social and economic consequences for adolescent...
Sexually Transmitted Infections in Singapore Teenagers
Adolescence can be a difficult period for many individuals who have to navigate their way through complicated emotional, psychological, physical and social demands and...
Eating Disorders in Singapore: A Review
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge-eating disorder are the three best described ‘eating disorders’. All three are predominantly disorders of women with the core symptoms...