Early detection of ‘bubble boy disease’ helps save lives of newborns
Also known as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), those born with this rare life-threatening condition have no functioning immune system, making them highly vulnerable to…
Judith Tan
Early Asians walked 20,000km from North Asia to South America, reshaped genetic landscape: study
Known as humanity’s longest prehistoric migration, it started from Asia to Beringia, a land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska during the Ice Age, and crossing into South…
Two ‘off-label’ chemo drugs used together to fight bladder cancer successfully in Singapore
The new union of gemcitabine and docetaxel was offered from October 2023 specifically to patients who were unresponsive to treatment and at higher risk for surgery. They are now…
Health Ministry warns UK service to stop providing puberty blockers to Singapore users
Puberty blockers are used to stop the body from making sex hormones and delay the changes of puberty in transgender and gender-diverse people.
Up to 1.1m Singapore residents will receive higher healthcare subsidies from Oct 1, says Health Minister
The monthly per capita household income threshold for each subsidy tier will be raised by $100 to $800.
Community hospital subsidies in Singapore to be enhanced from Oct, says Health Minister
This will minimise delays in the transfer to step-down care, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung added.
More women aged 50 and older in Singapore having babies
Between 1989 and 2009, six women aged 50 or older had babies. This number increased more than five times between 2010 and 2019, with 33 such women giving birth to 41 babies.
Singapore researchers discover ‘spa’ treatment can turn back clock on older women’s eggs
While still restricted to the petri dish for now, the research findings offer renewed hope for older women looking to take motherhood off the back burner after taking time to…
Singapore researchers discover new variant of highly infectious hospital-acquired fungus
By uncovering the new strain early, not only will surveillance strategies be improved to keep a close watch on its emergence and contain the spread, but doctors can also sidestep…
Singapore residents returning from countries with mpox do not need to be quarantined: experts
All travellers are required to report mpox-related symptoms and travel history on the SG Arrival Card, the Ministry of Health said. Mpox symptoms include fever, skin rash and…