Sunway’s healthcare arm eyes Southeast Asia expansion
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 27): Sunway Healthcare Holdings Bhd (SHH) is exploring opportunities to expand to Southeast Asian nations…
Stronger connection found between cannabis use and mental illness
An analysis of 35,000 Canadians shows that rising cannabis use and worsening mental‑health symptoms are increasingly appearing together,…
NUS Medicine launches new nursing-informatics degree
SINGAPORE – With the growing shift towards digital and AI-driven healthcare, the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo…
Scientists Develop New Gut Health Measure That Tracks Disease
BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones…
How to avoid inappropriate dental antibiotics
Antibiotic Aftershocks This is part 3 in a three-part series on potential harms from taking antibiotics for dental…
Aging Is Medicine’s Biggest Blind Spot
We all know smoking raises your risk of lung cancer and a poor diet can lead to diabetes…
Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts | Nursing
Hospitals and care homes in the UK face “an impending car crash”, experts have warned, as research shows…
From thyroid surgery to K-beauty, why foreign patients turn to Korea
Chuluunbaatar Odgerel, a Mongolian patient, consults with medical staff at Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital in Seoul’s Gangseo…
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital becoming Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WCYB) — The East Tennessee Children’s Hospital is being renamed the Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital. Parton…
New Research Suggests Mammograms Could Offer Heart Health Insight
4 min readRecent research suggests that breast arterial calcification (BAC) picked up on routine mammograms may help predict…
New blood test signals who is most likely to live longer, study finds
image: Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD in the lab view more Credit: Duke Health / Shawn Rocco DURHAM,…
What I Listened To In The Hospital
Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. Having a severe chronic…