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Safe to do sports while pregnant
Doing sports may lead to miscarriage? That's a myth, said sports doctor and ex-national sailor Ben Tan.
Girl suffers stroke when she is just 13
It left the right side of her body very weak and her speech was affected; about three to four children here suffer strokes each year.
Period pain for 20 years
Woman suffers terrible period pains that became worse after childbirth, and is considering surgery to stop her menses completely.
Staying healthy, girl to granny
Two things will keep a woman healthy throughout her life, says a gynaecologist.
Ovarian cancer: the silent killer
Ovarian cancer is listed as the fourth most common cancer among Singapore women.
Crushing news just before wedding
Just four months before walking down the isle, Deborah Wong was told that she had ovarian cancer.
For the love of kids
It breaks my heart when a baby dies and I have to tell the parents that we have everything medically possible, says this paediatrician.
Sharp drop in price of cervical-cancer vaccine
GlaxoSmithKline has dropped the price of its vaccine, Cervarix, by 30 per cent. -myp
These women quit
Four women at different stages of their lives share how and why they quit smoking through free novellas.
Tragedy destroys husband's desperate hope
Wife appeared to be making a miraculous recovery from bone marrow transplant for leukaemia, but things suddenly worsened.
I turned white with fear for her
S'pore mum weeps non-stop as baby becomes 'world's smallest patient' for complex windpipe surgery. -TNP
Cancer-hit euthanasia advocate ends her life
"If I was an animal, it would be cruel and against the law to allow me to continue my life at that level," she wrote of her pain.
M'sian mum, 45kg, dies on her 15th lipo op
After 14 liposuction treatments, she still wasn't happy with her figure so she went under the knife again.
Zapping off those brown blotches
Melasma causes brown patches of pigmentation to appear, usually on the face. Here's how they can be erased.
Pretty singer gets hooked on DIY plastic surgery
She took to injecting her face with cooking oil and paraffin, causing her head to balloon to three times the normal size.
 
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