Editorial
Live It Up Without Lighting Up
The tide against the tobacco industry is growing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), a global public health treaty...
Editorial
Fatal Asthma in Singapore
The occasion of World Asthma Day in 2012 provides us with an opportunity to review the state of asthma care in Singapore. This is...
Original Article
The Excess Financial Burden of Multidrug Resistance in Severe Gram-negative Infections in Singaporean Hospitals
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a burden on healthcare systems in both developed as well as developing nations, resulting in prolonged hospitalisation, poor outcomes and...
Original Article
Determinants of Late-Stage HIV Disease at Diagnosis in Singapore, 1996 to 2009
The first case of HIV infection in Singapore was diagnosed in 1985, and the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in September 1986. Since...
Original Article
SOX40L: An Important Inflammatory Mediator in Adult Bronchial Asthma
Bronchial asthma is a kind of chronic airway inflammatory disease which is associated with the infiltration of eosinophils, mastocytes, and T lymphocytes, and the...