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Woodlands Hospital pilot helps cut hospitalisations and A&E visits for nursing home residents

Woodlands Hospital has partnered Ren Ci @ Woodlands nursing home to provide specialist geriatric care for the nursing home residents.

Multiple organ failure can happen to a healthy person, say doctors

An emergency department combined full dress rehearsal at Singapore General Hospital in 2025. A key trigger of multiple organ failure in an otherwise healthy individual is sepsis.

NUH to introduce smartwatches for inpatient vital signs monitoring

Data from the smartwatches will be fed into the hospital’s electronic medical records system, allowing automatic documentation.

Health Check Podcast

What your blood pressure reading misses

Ketamine therapy at IMH offers hope to patients with hard-to-treat depression

Ketamine, widely known as a party drug that has emerged as a fast-acting treatment for patients with hard-to-treat depression worldwide, is now available at IMH.

Urine biopsy offers a more accurate way to detect bladder, kidney and prostate cancers

Using an emerging urine test on a sample like this can detect bladder, kidney and prostate cancer more accurately, a study found.

Two cancer patients, two eras of treatment

Over the last two decades, entirely new categories of treatment have emerged for myeloma, says the author.

Medical Mysteries

When back pain turns out to be cancer – and something more

Cancer survivor Ranald Lai, who has also Li-Fraumeni syndrome - a rare genetic disorder that increases a person’s cancer risks - with his doctor, senior medical oncologist Valerie Yang.

Staying awake during spine surgery can be a safer treatment option for the elderly

Thomas Tan, a consultant in neurosurgery at the National Neuroscience Institute@Tan Tock Seng Hospital (second from right), demonstrated where the specialised instruments accessed the spine while minimising damage to surrounding tissues.

Branded Content

What mums can expect at this $100,000 luxury confinement centre

Artyzen Singapore hotel room, DeRama Singapore confinement centre, postpartum food and nurses to take care of newborn babies

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