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China announced its “Made in China 2025” manufacturing strategy in May 2015, which places the biomedical and high-performing medical instruments sector as one of China’s pillar industries. China could draw lessons from Singapore’s experience over the last decade, when the Singapore government began investing substantially in biomedical research since 2000. 10 years on, Singapore hasRead more

The number of teenage boys who have visited prostitutes is on the rise, with the key reasons being never having had a girlfriend, or one who is sexually active, and watching pornography frequently, according to the first study here on teens who have paid for sex. During interviews conducted with 300 teens who visited the Department

The NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) and the EHESP French National School of Public Health jointly organised the Urban Planning for a Healthy Smart Nation on 11 April 2016, a workshop designed to integrate the two national programmes of “Healthy Living Master Plan” and the “Smart Nation Initiative”. The workshop drew over 100 participants,

A study conducted by the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and NUS Business School has found that office workers spend an average of seven hours every day sitting at their work stations, which may increase the risk of developing diabetes. The study, led by Assistant Professor Falk Mueller-Riemenschneider and researchers Dr Clarice Waters and Er Pei

Projections by the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health have indicated that Singapore is expected to have 1 million diabetics by 2050, due to an ageing population and a rise in obesity. While people should keep fit and eat healthy to prevent onset of diabetes, experts say those who are considered at risk

24 March marks World Tuberculosis (TB) Day around the world, a day designed to build public awareness against the global epidemic of TB and efforts to eliminate this disease. TB may be thought of as a disease of the past in developed societies where newborn vaccinations are cheap and readily available, but the fight is

There are currently around 500,000 diabetics in Singapore in 2015. By 2050, we could see up to 1 million diabetics in Singapore, as a result of not only having an ageing population, but increasing rates of obesity. And obesity has been on the rise among those below 40, says Professor Chia Kee Seng, Dean of the

The NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health congratulates our alumna Dr Margaret Chan (Class of ’85, MSc Public Health and Occupational Medicine) on being featured as one of CNN’s 19 Most Important Women in the History of Science. She joins other famous women on the list such as Dame Jane Goodall and Marie Curie

Two years ago, the Health Promotion Board announced its aims to get smoking rates in Singapore down to 12% by 2020. Last December, four tobacco control proposals were raised for public consultation: raising the minimum age for smoking, banning additives in tobacco products, selling cigarettes in plain packaging, and enlarging graphic health warnings on packaging.

With rising obesity and diabetes rates both globally and in Singapore, we need to keep our body weight in check to prevent risks of health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. And it’s important to take note of sugar content in fresh fruit juice, which is comparable to that of sugar-sweetened beverages such as