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A brief look at imaging scans
Scans like the CT scan and MRI play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Find out why.
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60% of workers will get full subsidy
Earn $3,200 or less each month? Get the full subsidy at public hospitals when means testing starts.
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Maggots to treat festering wounds
Tan Tock Seng hospital will deploy them this month to heal infection wounds of diabetics, amputees and burns victims.
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No pain, no symptoms. Then you go blind
And the Chinese are most susceptible to 'close-angle' glaucoma, caused by
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How glaucoma can make you go blind in as little as two weeks
The condition can hurt sufferers swiftly and seriously if undetected and untreated.
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Why family income left out of equation
While possibly fairer, such a system for means testing at public hospitals would be too tedious, time-consuming: Health Minister
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Banking on kids' cord blood
Call it biological insurance - about 24,000 parents now keeping their newborn?s cord blood to treat future illnesses.
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How about some Botox after your flu jab?
As family clinics muscle in on the lucrative aesthetic treatment market, will things turn ugly for the consumer? |
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Keep your brain active
The brain can reorganise itself according to input - here are four easy ways to get yours to work better.
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More people here getting cancer - and dying of it
About 9,000 people in Singapore are told each year that they have the disease, with colon or colorectal cancer the most common.
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Don't self-treat, warn experts
Those who self-treat diabetes or hypertension by buying OTC medication run the risk of kidney failure, warns specialist.
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A closer look
How are technologies like CT scans and colonoscopy used to find out more about your health?
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A chance to see near things clearly again
Those with presbyopia might now find a permanent solution - if they're willing to partipcate in a trial.
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Ministry wants doctors to stop 'aesthetic' treatments
Treatments unproven, controversial, said S'pore's Health Ministry. |
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