Many parents want clean, sterilised environments for their children. But while a certain degree of cleanliness and hygiene helps to maintain our children’s well-being and prevent communicable diseases, not exposing them to common microbes and bugs present in dirt leave them with a highly sensitive immune system that is more susceptible to inflammatory diseases and dangerous infectious agents.

The National University of Singapore Centre for Additive Manufacturing (AM.NUS) was launched on July 21, 2017, by Mr Amrin Amin, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Health, at the Additive Manufacturing Healthcare Summit.

Although many colorectal cancer patients recover well, Dr Tan Ker Kan, Assistant Professor from NUS Medicine’s Department of Surgery, advised people to go for screening early, as reports have shown that early screening improves survival outcomes. Screening includes a faecal occult blood test, colonoscopy and CT colonography.

About 70,000 people in Singapore have dementia, according to a large in-depth study funded by the Ministry of Health and the Singapore Millennium Foundation of the Temasek Trust.

An estimated 257 million people worldwide are living with hepatitis B infection. Regionally, in South East Asia, hepatitis B affects about 3.3 per cent of the population, according to the World Health Organisation. In Singapore alone, about 160,000 people suffer from the viral infection that affects the liver.