Volume 52, Number 2
February 2023

Detection of neurological conditions is becoming more critical in the face of rapidly ageing populations worldwide. Imaging of the retina and optic nerve head presents a unique approach to identify brain diseases, but the specialised expertise required may impede its utilisation by non-ophthalmic healthcare providers.

Detection of neurological conditions is becoming more critical in the face of rapidly ageing populations worldwide. Imaging of the retina and optic nerve head presents a unique approach to identify brain diseases, but the specialised expertise required may impede its utilisation by non-ophthalmic healthcare providers.

Illustration by Xinyu Li

Diabetes: Know thy foe

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, Singapore’s Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung mentioned, “After the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, we need to tackle a far more challenging pandemic—which is longer-term chronic illness, and diabetes is a major one.”1 Truly, in the past decade, there has been an invisible global...

The eye as a window to the brain

Over the last 20 years, it has become evident that the age-old expression, “the eye is the window into the soul”, might in fact hold more truth than previously thought. We are currently able to distinguish a variety of systemic diseases by funduscopic inspection. Following the dawn of high-resolution...

Concordance of self-reporting of diabetes compared with medical records: A comparative study using polyclinic data in Singapore

Approximately 422 million people worldwide have diabetes and 1.6 million deaths are attributed to diabetes each year,1 contributing to high economic costs worldwide. Diabetes education and awareness of the disease contribute significantly to minimising complications and reducing morbidity and mortality.2 In addition, there is also a strong impetus to...

Factors associated with deep infiltrating endometriosis, adenomyosis and ovarian endometrioma

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory gynaecologic disease marked by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus.1 Debilitating chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhoea, and subfertility in women of reproductive age are commonly associated with endometriosis. The disease is estimated to affect about 1 in every 10 women of reproductive age,...

Immune and coagulation profiles in 3 adults with multisystem inflammatory syndrome

A spectrum of immune dysregulation has been described following SARS-CoV-2 infections—from the cytokine storm in the acute phase, to hyperinflammatory syndromes that occur after the resolution of the initial infection.1 Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) was first reported in children in April 2020 as a hyperinflammatory syndrome with features similar...

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