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Speaker:  Dr Lee Guan Huei 李冠辉, Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology, NUH Sponsors/Organising parties:  365 Cancer Prevention Society (365CPS), Singapore National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS), Singapore Date: 16 Oct 2021, Saturday Time: 8-9pm (GMT +8) We have Dr Lee Guan Huei, Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology, NUH, to talk to us about Liver cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment. This is proudly organised by 365 Cancer Prevention Society (365 CPS), National University Hospital (NUH), and National University Cancer Institute Singapore (NCIS).  For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr Lee give us a short presentation about liver cancer: the…

Speaker:  Dr Lee Guan Huei 李冠辉, Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology, NUH Sponsors/Organising parties:  365 Cancer Prevention Society (365CPS), Singapore National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS), Singapore Date: 16 Oct 2021, Saturday Time: 8-9pm (GMT +8) We have Dr Lee Guan Huei, Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology, NUH, to talk to us about Liver cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment. This is proudly organised by 365 Cancer Prevention Society (365 CPS), National University Hospital (NUH), and National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS).  For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr Lee give us a short presentation about liver cancer: the…

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) is Singapore’s national authority regulating health products. Apart from approval of new drugs and indications, every few months, HSA releases a bulletin summarising the various adverse drug reactions (ADRs) that were collated over the past few months. The bulletins can be found on the HSA’s website.   A summary of the key points from the issue in December 2021 may be found below:  ADR #1: Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions Associated with Allopurinol and Considerations for Patient Genotyping Allopurinol-induced severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCAR) are rare but known undesirable events related to the drug. They include: Stevens-Johnson…

Gout is a form of painful inflammatory arthritis caused by uric acid crystal deposition in the body. Lifestyle changes could help a person with gout live better. Read on to know more! Epidemiology Gout is the most common form of arthritis in adults globally, which risk increases with age. It tends to affect men and post-menopausal women more. People of all ethnicities can develop the condition, and an estimated 4%, 2.5% and over 6% of the American, European, and Oceanic Pacific populations are affected by the disease respectively. There has also been growing prevalence of the ailment in the Asian…

Health Sciences Authority (HSA) is Singapore’s national authority regulating health products. Apart from new drugs and indications approval, HSA also releases a bulletin that summarises the various adverse drug reactions (ADR) that were collated over the past few months. The bulletins can be found on their HSA’s website. Summary of the key points of October 2021’s issue as below: ADR #1: Risk of Sertraline Associated Microscopic Colitis Sertraline has been linked to the occurrence of microscopic colitis in a few case reports of patients overseas, and according to published literature. Findings from the patient case reports also revealed that there…