Volume 47, Number 5
May 2018

Reproduced with permission from: Anonymous

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC – AD 65)
Roman philosopher

Body, Heart and Mind: The Battle Against Tobacco Continues

Tobacco use continues to impact health on a global scale. In 2015, 11.5% of all deaths worldwide (or a total of 6.4 million deaths) were attributable to tobacco, and more than half (52.2%) occurred in 4 countries—China, India, the United States (US) and Russia. This article is available only as...

Is Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Asian Super Obese a Safe and Effective Procedure?

The obesity epidemic is a major public health concern worldwide. In Singapore, 8.6% of the population has a body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2 and 34.3% of the population is overweight, i.e. BMI ≥25 kg/m2. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view...

Yellow Fever – What It Means for Singapore

Yellow fever (YF) is an arthropod-borne viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Hemagogus mosquitoes, belonging to the flavivirus family which includes dengue, Zika and West Nile virus. Infected persons may have symptoms that range from subclinical infection to multi-organ failure and death. This article is available only as...

An Initial Experience Comparing Robotic Total Mesorectal Excision (RTME) and Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision (taTME) for Low Rectal Tumours

Laparoscopic surgery is widely used for the surgical treatment of rectal cancer. However, very low rectal cancer presents with special difficulty. Laparoscopic dissection beyond a protruding sacral promontory, especially in a small confined pelvic space in a fat male pelvis, is technically difficult. This article is available only as a...

Neuroimaging in Juvenile Alexander Disease: Tumour-like Brainstem Lesions

Alexander disease (AD) is a progressive degenerative leukodystrophy, which typically presents in infancy. Neonatal, juvenile and adult-onset forms of AD are relatively rare, with a more variable clinical course compared to the infantile subtype. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

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