Wellness

Why circadian-friendly lighting for health and well-being has yet to catch on in Singapore

Singapore Land Group’s lighting design by local lighting designer Toh Yah Li’s firm Light Collab.

Why ‘junk light’ from LED bulbs could make you unwell – and how to reduce the health risks

For evenings, circadian biology expert Martin Moore-Ede recommends seeking out LED light bulbs producing less than 2 per cent blue light.

I told my patient she’d never go home. I was wrong

This doctor realised she was functioning within a medical culture in which delivering a dire prognosis with certainty is seen as a positive and any softening feels like a failure.

Accept your fate. Don’t wear shorts to the office

Government officials in casual dress code, including shorts, tee shirts and sneakers, as part of Tokyo’s ‘Cool Biz’ initiative.

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Can raising your core temperature help your body heal? A doctor explains

Patients at Artisan Regenerative Centre undergo a medical assessment before their whole-body hyperthermia, heat therapy, body recovery session.

The new rules for power napping in the office

The short duration is key since the aim is to avoid falling into a deep sleep, from which you might wake up feeling worse.

Not everyone should be in therapy

We risk mistaking mental health issues that require treatment for problems of isolation or circumstance.

You may not need eight hours of sleep

A consistent finding in sleep epidemiology studies is that there is not a magic number below which health suddenly falls off a cliff.

Nourishing the body and soul: Wellness dining concept Foura debuts July 9 at IMBA Theatre

(From left) Co-founders of Foura, Elwin Tan, Dharma Wang, Benjamin Aryanto and Ryan Pang. The all-day dining and wellness concept will make its debut at the IMBA Theatre in Gardens by the Bay on July 9.

This doctor can change the colour of your eyes. Should he?

Dr Francis Ferrari invented the cosmetic process, called Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Annular Keratopigmentation, over a decade ago.

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