Singapore Archives

3 September 2024

World

Under Half Of Singapore Residents Did Health Screening In Past Year: Survey

HMI Medical’s first National Health Survey in Singapore shows only 49% of Singapore residents went for a health checkup in the past 12 months. Half of respondents seek medical attention only when they experience symptoms. 55% face long wait times for care.

19 July 2024

World

Living Long But Dying Alone In Singapore

Singapore's longevity success hides a dark side — the lonely deaths of its seniors — exposing a need to address social isolation in its ageing population.

28 June 2024

Malaysia

JSF Cardiothoracic Exam: Singapore Only Recognises Locally Trained Graduates For Specialist Registration

Singapore's JCST told MMC in Feb 2024 that for graduates of JSF exam in cardiothoracic surgery, only those who completed training in Singapore are recognised for specialist registration in Singapore. Candidates from Malaysia may be reviewed case-by-case.

21 February 2024

World

Singapore Offers Foreign Nurses Up To S$100,000 In Retention Scheme With Minimum Four Years’ Service

Singapore's MOH launches a retention incentive scheme for both local and foreign nurses called ANGEL that awards nurses in public health care up to S$100,000 (RM356,818) over 20 years. Foreign nurses are eligible for ANGEL after serving at least 4 years.

30 October 2023

Letter

Resolving The Urgent Nicotine Abuse Menace The Singaporean Way — Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

The national prevalence of the use of e-cigarettes and other vaping products jumped to 14.9 per cent in 2022.

29 September 2023

World

Ageing Singapore Offers A Blueprint For Action

Singapore started tackling its ageing population early and yet is facing challenges. That does not mean others should not be learning from it.

20 September 2023

World

WHO: Decriminalisation Reduced Deaths By Suicide In Singapore

WHO's new suicide policy brief highlights a Singapore case study, where deaths by suicide dropped 45% in the nine months post-decriminalisation in 2020. Singapore police play a vital role as first-line responders for suicidal ideation or suicide attempts.

25 October 2022

World

Singapore Approves Pfizer’s Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccine For Over-12s

Singapore's HSA has granted interim authorisation of a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech original/ Omicron BA.4-5-adapted bivalent vaccine for individuals aged 12 years and older.

7 July 2022

World

Singapore Confirms First Local Monkeypox Case

More than 6,000 monkeypox cases have been reported in 58 countries, according to WHO, with over 80% of the infections in Europe.

22 June 2022

World

SMART Researchers Pioneer Novel Way To Detect Microbial Contamination In Cell Cultures

The anomaly detection model utilises machine learning to detect the presence of microbial contamination within a few minutes.

Tag: Singapore

Under Half Of Singapore Residents Did Health Screening In Past Year: Survey

Living Long But Dying Alone In Singapore

JSF Cardiothoracic Exam: Singapore Only Recognises Locally Trained Graduates For Specialist Registration

Singapore Offers Foreign Nurses Up To S$100,000 In Retention Scheme With Minimum Four Years’ Service

Resolving The Urgent Nicotine Abuse Menace The Singaporean Way — Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

Ageing Singapore Offers A Blueprint For Action

WHO: Decriminalisation Reduced Deaths By Suicide In Singapore

Singapore Approves Pfizer’s Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccine For Over-12s

Singapore Confirms First Local Monkeypox Case

SMART Researchers Pioneer Novel Way To Detect Microbial Contamination In Cell Cultures

Ampang Hospital’s IT System Down For 33 Hours In First Huge Outage

Report: Treasury Wants RM3b Cut To Health Ministry’s 2026 Budget

Too Many Agencies Involved In Doctor Workforce Pipeline: Health DG

Take Action Against Retail Blood Testing In Pharmacies — FPMPAM

Don’t Blame MOH Alone For Health Workforce Shortages — MMA