Thursday, 31 May 2012
Stop hospital bugs with hand rubs (The Straits Times)
If you are visiting a loved one in hospital, it is not just good manners to wash your hands before touching him. Using a hand rub is faster it takes only 20 seconds and more convenient. Most wards would have some available for general use. Read more
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
Wash off the bugs (Mind your Body, The Straits Times)
What a person cannot see with his naked eye cannot harm him. Hundreds of studies show that good hand hygiene in health-care workers helps to reduce the
incidence of infections in their patients, said Associate Professor Dale Fisher, head of the infections diseases division at the National University Hospital. Read more
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
Surge in HIV infections among gays, bisexuals (The Sunday Times)
For the first time since 1990, the number of homosexual and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV has overtaken that of heterosexual men. In the first half of last year, homosexuals and bisexuals comprised 54 per cent of the 195 people found to have the human immunodeficiency virus which causes Aids. All were infected through sex. Heterosexuals made up the rest. Read more
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Monday, 12 March 2012
Phase one trial for HFMD vaccine co-developed by NUH completed (Shin Min Daily)
The first phase trial for the HFMD vaccine, co-developed by NUH, has obtained a 100% success rate. Associate Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah, Senior Consultant, Division of Infectious Diseases at NUH shares the clinical trial results. Read more
