Congratulations to the NUS Medicine Inter-Faculty Games 2018 athletes on winning the championship and bringing home the Tan Eng Chye Challenge Trophy.

Over the past year, the students from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) and their counterparts from the Business, Computing, Engineering, Dentistry, and Science faculties have gone through interdisciplinary boot camps to develop and refine their proposed solutions and prototypes to a number of healthcare problems. The students, grouped into 14 teams, are taking part in the second edition of the Medical Grand Challenge, which was launched last year.

Singapore’s pioneering student-led health screening programme for residents of rental HDB apartments is going big this year, the 12th since the programme began in 2007.

Alumna Dr Wong Hee Ong survived World War II, completed medical school and contributed to healthcare in both Singapore and Malaysia as an educator and practitioner. At 91, she is still helping seniors prevent dementia.

A team of doctors from Singapore and Malaysia has managed to raise cure rates for a group of child leukemia patients from 69.6 per cent to 91.6 per cent while also lowering relapses from 30 per cent to 13 per cent.