Apologies and the Practice of Medicine
My Dearest Forum, First of all let me apologize. Ever since the Chinese New Year, we have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride. As most of you already know, we were having problems with the hosting of the wesbite with constant issues regarding insufficient bandwidth. We have resolved the issue for now. The new forum should be up by February and that should put and end to the web hosting problems. Furthermore, the new forum format will allow me to follow up better on individual cases. The problem with the WordPress platform that I am...
read morePlease Read this before Posting
Dear Forum Users, This is not the usual legal mumbo-jumbo. This is serious and I appeal to you to read this carefully before posting a question on this forum. There are 3 crictical take home messesages: 1. See your Doctor. This forum is for myself and my team or doctors to share our opinions on your medical issues with you. In no way and at no time should you take this as a medical consultation. You must always defer to your own doctors for proper medical advice. If what we say differs from your doctor’s advice, you must always...
read moreHPV Vaccines for Men
25th October 2011 CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) approved today recommendations for routine vaccination of males 11 or 12 years old with 3-doses of HPV4 to protect against Human Papilloma Virus. The HPV vaccine will afford protection against certain HPV-related conditions and cancers in males, and vaccination of males with HPV may also provide indirect protection of women by reducing transmission of HPV. Anne Schuchat, M.D., Director,NationalCenterfor Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC Dr Tan’s...
read moreGetting HIV from Oral Sex
This is one of the most common causes of worry I’ve come across. Before getting down to answering this questions proper, we have to understand something about how medical ‘truths’ are determined. We can all appreciate that medicine is never black and white. And almost nothing is 100% certain. Medical knowledge is gained from scientific study and statistical analysis. Once something is termed ‘statistically significant’ we generally tend to accept it as truth or fact. However, it also means that a small but definite number or...
read moreAnonymous HIV Testing at Our Clinic.
In 2008, we were given the mandate by the Ministry of Health to conduct anonymous HIV testing. Not all clinics are allowed to conduct anonymous HIV tests. This is because according to the Infectious Diseases Act, all medical personnel are required to inform MOH of the details of any person they know or suspect of being infected with HIV. Our clinic signed a gazette that is filed with the Supreme Court of Singapore to excuse us from this section of the Infectious Diseases Act. We are therefore mandated under Singapore Law to be allowed to...
read moreHow to talk to your doctor about premature ejaculation
This article was written by the Health Xchange editor, with expert input from the Department of Urology at Singapore General Hospital. It was first posted on 29th September 2011. Premature ejaculation is more common than erectile dysfunction, but it is less talked about because there wasn’t any medicine readily available until recently. The situation changed in March this year with the launch of Priligy, a pill able to prolong the length of intercourse up to three times. So men now have an option for premature ejaculation (PE), but they...
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