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How old are you biologically, and what are you doing about it?

Medical Mysteries

Rare disorder leaves toddler struggling to produce cell energy

Little Oliver Soh began having seizures and showed signs of developmental delay within months of his birth. The toddler, seen here with his father, Keltonn Soh, and mother, Leow Kai Wen, has primary coenzyme Q10 deficiency.

The New Age

Rethinking ageing: It’s not about just adding years to life, but adding life to years

Whether we refer to ageing as a disease is ultimately, not as important as how we respond to ageing. The challenge is not adding years to life at all costs but adding life to years.

The New Age

Investing in the future of health: Singapore’s growing longevity sector

Private healthcare groups and commercial players are racing to offer biological age testing, precision diagnostics, and personalised lifestyle interventions.

The New Age

What happens in our bodies as we age

The New Age

From personalised health dashboard to body servicing: Inside S’pore’s massive healthy ageing experiment

The team members at Alexandra Hospital’s Healthy Longevity Research Clinic (HLRC) with some participants (from left): research assistant He Qian; exercise physiologist Saiful Anwar; Michelle Liao, a doctor; participant Ivan Low; Laureen Wang, head of HLRC; participant Lee Siu Yin; Grace Chiang, a family medicine consultant with HLRC; senior staff nurse Eswari Sundrasagaran; and health coach Cheryl Tan.

The New Age

Can we change how we age? ST launches year-long series The New Age on living long, and living well

The New Age explores what it really means to grow older, and how daily lifestyle choices, medicine, and social support can redefine ageing from an inescapable descent into a realm of opportunity.

Palliative care and surgery encouraged for advanced cancer patients under new initiative

Cancer patient Gerald William Pereira (second from right) with (from left) Clinical Associate Professor Shirlynn Ho, Associate Psychologist Perlie Ng and Assistant Professor Jolene Wong.

Singapore-based research network appointed WHO collaborating centre for clinical trials

Mo Yin, director of Advancing Clinical Evidence in Infectious Diseases, speaking at a ceremony officially announcing the WHO appointment on Aug 31.

New private not-for-profit hospital to be located in the east due to high occupancy rates: MOH

Mount Alvernia Hospital is currently the only not-for-profit private acute hospital in Singapore. Details of a possible second such hospital are still being worked out currently.

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