Review Article
The Role of Advancement Flaps in Peri-ocular Reconstructive Surgery
The advancement flap is a modality of skin defect closure via mobilisation of tissue along a linear direction. It is one of the most...
The Role of Muller’s Muscle-Conjunctiva Resection (MCR) in the Treatment of Ptosis
The Muller’s muscle (MM) is a sympathetically innervated upper eyelid muscle that elevates the eyelid besides the levator palpebral superioris. The MM resembles smooth...
Age-related Macular Degeneration – An Asian Perspective
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a group of non-Mendellian disorders which share the common manifestation of chronic progressive degeneration of the macula involving changes...
The Emerging Challenge of Age-related Eye Diseases in Singapore
Singapore has one of the fastest ageing populations in the world today. The current elderly population, defined as persons 65 years or older, comprises...
Self-directed Learning in Health Professions Education
More than 600,000 new citations were published in MEDLINE in 2005; this raised the total number of indexed citations to more than 14 million...
Healthcare Workers and HIV Health Issues
This paper aims to present a comprehensive review of issues related to HIV testing in healthcare workers (HCWs) and proposes appropriate measures in response...
Antiviral Drugs for the Control of Pandemic Influenza Virus
Over the past 100 years there have been 3 major influenza virus pandemics, which have among them claimed millions of lives. In 1918 the...
Vaccines for Pandemic Influenza. The History of our Current Vaccines, their Limitations and the...
The ongoing epizootic of avian influenza due to A (H5N1) viruses, the growing count of associated human fatalities, and the fear that this may...
Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Singapore
Avian influenza (AI) or “bird flu” is a highly infectious disease of birds. AI viruses are negative single-stranded enveloped RNA viruses that belong to...
Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic in Singapore
The last influenza pandemics occurred in 1957 and 1968. Few remember the pandemic in 1968 in Singapore as it was relatively mild.
This article is...