Our first National Reading Day was 30th July, yesterday. This is part of a 5-year National Reading Movement, which unfortunately appears to have all the hallmarks of past national campaigns. Nonetheless, reading is something I enjoy tremendously, and wished I could set aside more time to do. Trying to inculcate a love of reading in my […]
A non-systematic mention of outbreaks that have caught my attention this week. For a more comprehensive search, there is ProMED Mail. One can also skim through the MOH’s weekly infectious diseases bulletin, which is only about local notifiable diseases (where one can quickly see that we have had more dengue and HFMD cases compared to […]
I read a recent review in Clinical Infectious Diseases (the second-ranked premier ID journal, depending on ranking criteria) on the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) ranking of antibiotics a couple of days ago. The WHO has ranked antimicrobial agents according to their importance for human medicine since 2007, and has updated the list every 3 years or so. […]
It was nice to receive a certificate of appreciation from the SG50 Steering Committee half a year after our project was completed (although the signature is likely an electronic one). Our various interview videos and the documentary are still available on YouTube on our own channel. The hardcover book is still available at Kinokuniya (although […]
An outbreak of canine leptospirosis in Singapore made it to the news yesterday. There were 17 suspected and 1 confirmed case for the year to date (up from 2 cases in 2015), 12 of which were linked to a single dog daycare centre. There may also have been a case of dog-to-human transmission – According […]
I attended my first NUS Commencement last Sunday evening as one of the faculty for the School of Public Health. It was a joint commencement for both the old School of Medicine and the new School of Public Health, held at the University Cultural Centre. Everyone was dressed in antiquated-looking (but somehow impressive) academic gowns, […]
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 […]
Spot diagnosis. The patient was otherwise asymptomatic, but was somewhat appalled when the object in the first image passed out per rectum. Questions: What is the diagnosis? How did the patient acquire this? [Updated 2nd July 2016] This is clearly a tapeworm – there are no other human parasites that grow to such length. The […]
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 […]
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