Review Article
Periodontal Disease – The Emergence of a Risk for Systemic Conditions: Pre-term Low Birth...
Recently, the impact of periodontal disease on adverse pregnancy outcome has received much attention. Pre-term low birth weight (PLBW) is a problem encountered in...
Infectious Respiratory Illnesses and their Impact on Healthcare Workers: A Review
With the recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and its exceptionally high transmission rate in healthcare settings, healthcare workers (HCWs) and administrators...
Community Psychiatry in Singapore: A Pilot Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Programme
It is well known that serious and persistent mental illness can result in diminished ability to function effectively in many life domains, such as...
Herbal Treatment for Renal Diseases
Renal fibrosis is a common consequence of progressive renal diseases. In nearly all cases, the extent of fibrotic lesions strongly correlates with disease severity...
Preventing Renal Transplant Failure
Renal transplantation is the best form of renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage renal failure (ESRF), in comparison to dialysis, as it is...
Hyperlipidaemia in Chronic Kidney Disease
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and have a higher prevalence of hyperlipidaemia (or dyslipidaemias) than...
Retarding the Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Focus on Hypertension...
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus continues to climb at an alarming rate and the World Health Organisation predicts that the number of...
Retardation of Kidney Failure – Applying Principles to Practice
By 2010 there will be more than 2 million patients worldwide on maintenance dialysis, a 400% increase in 20 years.1 This increase, occurring predominantly...
Progression of Renal Failure – The Role of Hypertension
Hypertension, or perhaps more accurately high blood pressure, plays a pivotal role in the progression of renal failure. The dichotomy of “hypertension” and “normotension”...
Role of Urinary Screening Programmes in Children in the Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease
Singapore has an estimated annual incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) of 158 per million population.1 However, the number of children who develop renal...