by Abriel | Aug 2, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
Mr Louis Ng (Nee Soon GRC) recommended the extension of paid paternity and maternity leave for new parents of premature or multiple babies. Mr Ng said parents of multiple babies are “more likely to have less sleep” due to the babies’ different sleep cycles. He added...
by Abriel | Jul 23, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
For more than a decade, Singaporean Dr Wee Teck Young’s, 48, chosen home has been Afghanistan, a country ravaged by an international conflict triggered by the Sept 11 attacks of 2001. Kabul, where he lives and runs a number of humanitarian programmes, is a...
by Abriel | Jul 22, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
Before 5.00 am on Saturday, families joined the sleepy crowds drifting toward the fence of the Wise County fairgrounds. Some had camped overnight, others were just arriving in the dark. The day before, more than 1,250 people from all over Appalachia showed up for free...
by Abriel | Jun 21, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
Two cancers have been rising sharply in Singapore: breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. Over the past 40 years, the incidence of breast cancer here has more than doubled. Breast cancer is both the most common cancer, occurring in one in three women, and...
by Abriel | Jun 20, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
A Singaporean mental-health doyen Kua Ee Heok, 68, included the story of Doctor Jennifer Bute, 70, in his new inspiring book – Colours of Ageing: 30 Years of Research on the Mental Health of the Singapore Elderly. Dr Bute was a British general practitioner who found...
by Abriel | Jun 20, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
A study spanning 14 years and counting has found that half of the elderly here are frail — especially the low-income, and those who are single, divorced or widowed — due to factors including malnutrition, lack of exercise and having chronic diseases. A study by...
