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Volume 42, Number 6 June 2013

Residency Programmes in Singapore—Challenges Ahead

Transitioning from the specialist training system of the United Kingdom (UK) to the Residency system of the United States of America, Singapore1 is in...

Better Hand Hygiene Means Safer Care

The 1st World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge, “Clean Care is Safer Care”, was launched in October 2005. Since then, Prof Didier...

Public Awareness of Sepsis and Stroke in Singapore: A Population-Based Survey

Sepsis and stroke are common diseases with several similarities. Firstly, they are both frequent causes of death. A recent review by Adhikari and colleagues...

An Alternative Treatment Option for Scaphoid Nonunion Advanced Collapse (SNAC) and Radioscaphoid Osteoarthritis: Early Results of a Prospective Study on the Pyrocarbon Adaptive Proximal Scaphoid Implant (APSI)

Scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse (SNAC) and radioscaphoid osteoarthritis are well recognised conditions that are considered very difficult to treat, not only by general orthopaedic...

CT-Guided Thoracic Biopsy: Evaluating Diagnostic Yield and Complications

Percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsies which have been performed for more than a century have since gained wide acceptance for diagnosing malignant and benign lung lesions....