Dr Noreen Chan, Assistant Professor from Department of Medicine at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, explains how caregivers can cope with death, and what palliative care can offer.

In May 2017, Japanese and Western authorities warned the public about the rising number of parasitic infections caused by the Anisakis worm in raw seafood. Associate Professor Kevin Tan from Department of Microbiology and Immunology said the Anisakis worm infects crustaceans, fish, squid and marine mammals, and its larvae can be found in the muscle tissue of fish.

If you think being lean equates to being healthy, you may be wrong. Although many people in Singapore may look lean and have a normal body mass index (BMI), they may be “viscerally obese”, which means they have a high body fat content. This leads to a higher risk of developing metabolic diseases like diabetes.

Associate Professor James Yip from NUS Medicine’s Department of Medicine, and Dr Keith Lim, Assistant Dean at NUS Medicine, were lauded at the National Health IT Summit 2017, after winning the award for National University Health System (NUHS) Value Driven Outcome in the category IT Excellence: Beyond Quality to Value.

NUS Medicine’s Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) hosted the 13th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC) on May 25-27, 2017 at the Singapore’s Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. Held for the first time in South-east Asia, a total of 330 participants, of which half came from abroad, attended this conference.