Volume 36, Number 10

October 2007

Mental Health in Singapore: A Quiet Revolution?

Worldwide there are about 450 million individuals in all societies who, in their lifetime, will suffer from a neuropsychiatric disorder that would exact a...

Public Misperceptions About Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus in Singapore

Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is an important global health problem, with more than 350 million individuals affected worldwide. CHB is particularly important in Asia,...

Primary Vaccination of Infants Against Hepatitis B can be Completed Using a Combined Hexavalent Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis-hepatitis B-inactivated poliomyelitis-Haemophilus influenzae Type B Vaccine

Before the introduction of mass vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in 1987, almost 10% of children <6 years of age and...

Susceptibility of Multi-resistant Gram-negative Bacilli in Singapore to Tigecycline as Tested by Agar Dilution

Tigecycline is a recently developed antibiotic that belongs to the glycylcycline class, which is a novel analogue of the tetracyclines. Tigecycline is reported to...

Efficacy of Low-dose Ketoconazole in Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients at the National Cancer Centre and The Cancer Institute, Singapore

Prostate cancer is the fifth most frequent malignancy among Singapore males, with the incidence rising steadily over the years.1 With the advent of prostate...