KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Breast surgeon: ‘I’d rather chart my wealth in how many patients’ lives I have touched’

Oncoplastic breast surgeon Lim Geok Hoon and one of her innovations, a half-body breast mould created using 3D printing technology.

Medical Mysteries

Non-verbal, non-mobile S’pore girl joins global hackathon where experts try to solve medical mysteries

Sarah Swee was born with a condition that has still not yet been diagnosed. She and her mother Jasmine Lee joined South-east Asia’s first Undiagnosed Hackathon, hoping to find an answer after an intensive 48-hour period.

Medical Mysteries

2-year-old S’pore boy is one of estimated 400 in world with disease caused by single altered gene

Teyden Hamilton Ho, who has Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim syndrome, with his father, Ho Jun Han, and mother, Tizane Woo.

Girl, 6, taken to hospital after SBS Transit bus and car collide in Tampines Central

The accident happened on Sept 16, at around 4.25pm.

KKH-MUIS team wins top healthcare award for guiding Muslim couples from marriage to parenting

The team from Project ARIF includes (from left) Suzanna Sulaiman, Nur Adila Ahmad Hatib, Mohamad Helmy Mohamad Isa and Siti Nurzakiah Zaran.

Forum: A joy to help children and women move better through every stage of life

Medical Mysteries

Living with an extra X chromosome: How one man cracked the code to his condition

Former nurse Tim (not his real name) was diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome, a genetic condition caused by an extra X chromosome.

Grieving parents launch Singapore non-profit to beat childhood brain cancer

Johnson Loo and Linda Ong – parents of Natasha Loo, who died from DIPG, a virtually fatal paediatric brain tumour – have founded non-profit DIPG Alliance.

Medical Mysteries

Girl born with skin missing from her scalp, body, arms and legs, treated with her own lab-grown skin

Siti Abdullah (right) with her husband Abdul Rahman and their daughter Sumayyah, who was born without skin on nearly 40 per cent of her body.

Former national table tennis star Yu Mengyu gives birth to twins three days before National Day

Former Singapore national table tennis player Yu Mengyu hopes her twins Asher (left) and Amelia will develop an interest in the sport.

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