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Our local favourite dishes may be even unhealthier than fast food, according to Assoc Prof Rob van Dam from the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, who was speaking at the 2nd Annual Worlds of Healthy Flavours Asia 2013. In fact, 25 local dishes including fried rice, claypot rice and chicken rice contain higher levelsRead more

Retinal imaging tests conducted during pregnancy can help assess foetal growth outcomes, complementing the conventional ultrasound scans done during pregnancy. The study, GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes), found that abnormal retinal blood vessels are associated with hypertension, stroke and cardiovascular mortality. Preliminary findings also found that women with smaller eye vessels during

On 5 December 2013, Utrecht University inked two Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM) and NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) to foster partnerships on medical research and advancement. With this latest collaboration, the three institutions will see the exchange of scientific, academic and technical

Outdoor air pollution has been classified as carcinogenic to humans and positively correlated with increased risk of lung cancer and bladder cancer, according to a recent report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organisation (WHO). It has already been proven that air pollution is

The Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) warmly congratulates our distinguished alumnus and philanthropist Professor Saw Swee Hock on receiving the President’s Award for Philanthropy (Individual category)! The award was presented by President of the Republic of Singapore, President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam at the President’s Volunteerism and Philanthropy Awards (PVPA) ceremony

Two professors from the National University of Singapore will ride their motorcycles 23,000km from Singapore to Sweden, to raise awareness for breast cancer research and education. Associate Professors Mikael Hartman from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Philip Iau from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine will embark on The Long Ride 2014

Sexual health education and disease prevention programmes should also be extended to include senior citizens, and not just younger audiences, a study conducted by doctors from the Communicable Diseases Division and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health has found. The study found that not only are there rising trends of Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have designed a free app which enables parents to tell whether their young children are colour blind. The app, available as a simple game, requires children between the ages of three and six to “catch” butterflies of matching colours by tapping on a screen. Professor Saw Seang

The Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health is pleased to announce that a Community Health Project titled ‘How well do consumers understand health financing? A community-based survey of residents in a public housing estate in Singapore’led by Associate Professor Fong Ngan Phoon from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health was awarded the Young Investigator Award –

While it is most certainly a life-saving procedure, many have the misconception that a colorectal screening is expensive. Although colorectal cancer is the most common cancer in Singapore, more than 80 per cent of people interviewed cited the cost as one of the main reasons preventing them from undergoing colorectal screening, a study conducted by