I was forwarded an article written by Mary Louisa Toynbee and published in the Guardian a couple of days ago, decrying the failure of the U.K. NHS’ care.data program. This was an ambitious plan to curate anonymised patient electronic medical and social care records into a single database for the purposes of research and improving […]
There are many criticisms made of our local press, but it is clear that we have good journalists. Ms Kelly Ng from Today has figured out what MOH appeared to have left out from its press release, which is that the Ang Mo Kio MDR-TB cluster ultimately has its roots in the 2012 Parklane cybercafe outbreak. The index […]
News of this outbreak – involving 6 MDR-TB cases to date – was released to the press yesterday evening by the Singapore Ministry of Health. The Channelnewsasia report also includes video footage of our Director of Medical Services as well as Prof Sonny Wang, long-term director of the TB Control Unit. These 6 cases were […]
I received the Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for tuberculosis a couple of weeks ago. The full version is also available on the MOH website here. Mixed feelings. There is always a bit of pride at having contributed to such things. Having sat in on the meetings, I am also aware of the […]
The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance was commissioned in July 2014 by the U.K. government to analyse the global problem of antimicrobial resistance and to propose concrete steps to deal with it. A remarkably enlightened move, I may add, given that U.K is not actually one of the countries with high rates of antimicrobial resistance, and […]
The first case of imported Zika infection in Singapore was announced on the mainstream media yesterday – a Singaporean permanent resident who had traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil between 27th March and 7th May and who had developed symptoms on 10th May. According to the news report, he is recovering (Zika causes mild disease in […]
It has been more than two weeks since the story first broke on mainstream media. More than a hundred additional cases have been linked to the durian pastry outbreak (bringing the total to at least 183 cases), while the Goodwood Park Hotel bakery remains suspended. The initial investigation was reportedly performed from 4th April (i.e. […]
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