Author: Sian Lin

Doctor On Call, or DOC for short, is a brand new series brought to you by Medical Channel Asia. This series aims to bring doctors and specialists from various fields to give you an introduction to common health and medical topics that you and the Asian population are interested in. In our 6th DOC, held on 14 Oct (Thursday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Radhika Lakshmanan, Consultant Breast & General Surgeon at Radhika Breast and General Surgery, to talk to us about Facts and Myths of Breast Cancer. For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr…

Doctor On Call, or DOC for short, is a brand new series brought to you by Medical Channel Asia. This series aims to bring doctors and specialists from various fields to give you an introduction to common health and medical topics that you and the Asian population are interested in. In our 6th DOC, held on 14 Oct (Thursday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Radhika Lakshmanan, Consultant Breast & General Surgeon at Radhika Breast and General Surgery, to talk to us about Facts and Myths of Breast Cancer. For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr…

Doctor On Call, or DOC for short, is a brand new series brought to you by Medical Channel Asia. This series aims to bring doctors and specialists from various fields to give you an introduction to common health and medical topics that you and the Asian population are interested in. In our 6th DOC, held on 14 Oct (Thursday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Radhika Lakshmanan, Consultant Breast & General Surgeon at Radhika Breast and General Surgery, to talk to us about Facts and Myths of Breast Cancer. For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr…

As we round off 2021 and welcome 2022, let’s recap and take a look at what are the top 5 articles that Medical Channel Asia (MCA)’s readers have been interested in. Of course the leading topic of interest is still related to THE virus, our readers were also curious to find out more about other health topics such as those relating to women’s health, pain (lots of it), and sleep (or the lack of it). To round off 2021 and recap, here are the top 5 articles and stories of Medical Channel Asia (in no particular order): 1. Are we…

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Doctor On Call, or DOC for short, is a brand new series brought to you by Medical Channel Asia. This series aims to bring doctors and specialists from various fields to give you an introduction to common health and medical topics that you and the Asian population are interested in. In our 5th DOC, held on 13 Oct (Wednesday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Jade Kua, Senior Consultant, Emergency Medicine with Woodlands Health Campus (WHC), to talk to us about DARE to Save a Heart: How to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) to save someone in…

Doctor On Call, or DOC for short, is a brand new series brought to you by Medical Channel Asia. This series aims to bring doctors and specialists from various fields to give you an introduction to common health and medical topics that you and the Asian population are interested in. In our 5th DOC, held on 13 Oct (Wednesday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Jade Kua, Senior Consultant, Emergency Medicine with Woodlands Health Campus (WHC), to talk to us about DARE to Save a Heart: How to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) to save someone in…

Pfizer and BioNTech, makers of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, held a press release on Wednesday (8 Dec), saying that the use of 3 doses of their vaccines can neutralise the omicron variant. Preliminary laboratory studies demonstrate that three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech were able to neutralise the omicron variant. Blood samples were collected from people one month after they had their booster shots (i.e. 3rd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine). Data from laboratory studies of these samples suggests that the omicron variant can be neutralised to levels that are ‘comparable to those observed for the wild-type (i.e.…

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