Volume 26, Number 6

November 1997

Ageing Gracefully in 2020

Nobody’s life or death is an island. My teaching diary for 1990 yielded these notes: science is great but slow; who will govern people’s...

Functional Status of the Elderly in Singapore-The Trend over a Decade

The study looks at the level and types of functional disabilities of a random sample of elderly individuals in the community through direct interviews...

The Demography, Clinical Manifestations and Natural History of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection in an Older Population in Singapore

In this retrospective study, we report 43 cases (41 males and 2 females) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the Singapore population aged...

Postural Stability in Non-insulin Dependent Diabetics

Postural stability in 55 non-insulin-dependent diabetics was compared with that of 53 non-diabetic controls matched for age and gender. The study was conducted in...

Out-patient Management of Febrile Neutropenia in Indigent Paediatric Patients

Affordability of costly in-patient medical care and accessibility to the few cancer centres are serious problems faced by cancer patients in developing countries. Febrile...