Volume 45, Number 7
Reproduced with permission from: Eagle Ngo and Jason Cheng
“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939)
British psychologist
Editorial
Psychiatric Neurostimulation in Singapore
Psychiatric conditions are estimated to account globally for 21.2% of years lived with disability (YLD) and 7.1% of disability-adjusted-life-years (DALYs), although the actual figure...
Original Article
Psychometric Properties of Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease Patients in an Asian Context
The Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive subscale (ADAS-Cog) is widely used in research settings to detect and follow-up cognitive deficits in persons suffering from Alzheimer’s...
Original Article
Disability in Singapore’s Elderly Population
The World Health Organization (WHO) endorses a balanced approach to defining disability which incorporates equal weight to the medical and the social aspects that...
Original Article
Enteric Fever in a Tertiary Paediatric Hospital: A Retrospective Six-Year Review
Enteric fever refers collectively to typhoid and paratyphoid fever. It is a potentially fatal multisystemic infection caused by bloodstream invasion with the bacteria Salmonella...
Original Article
Evaluation of Efficacy of Chloroquine for Plasmodium Vivax Infection Using Parasite Clearance Times: A 10-Year Study and Systematic Review
Malaria is a major public health problem, causing an estimated 655,000 deaths worldwide in 2010. It is a protozoan disease which occurs throughout the...
