Asthma: The Need for Good Control
World Asthma Day is an annual event organised by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) in collaboration with healthcare groups and asthma educators to...
New Hope for an Old Cure: A Pilot Animal Study on Selective Venesection in Attenuating the Systemic Effects of Ischaemic-Reperfusion Injury
Ischaemia-Reperfusion (I/R) injury describes a paradoxical phenomenon where reperfusion of tissues following a prolonged period of acute onset ischaemia causes further injury both to...
Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Tumours: Early Experience in Singapore General Hospital
With the increasing availability of ultrasound and computed tomography scans, more patients are being diagnosed with incidental renal tumours. Up to 80% of tumours...
Laparoscopic Systemic Retroperitoneal Lymphadenectomy for Women with Low-Risk Early Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial cancer is the third most frequent gynaecologic cancer in Korea, following cervical cancer and ovarian cancer. With the increasingly Westernised lifestyles of Korean...
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) Patterns in Bariatric Surgical Practice and Response of OSA to Weight Loss after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB)
The incidence of OSA in severely obese Asians is poorly documented. This is also compounded by a varied racial profile across Asia. Singapore, with...