Author: Sian Lin

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This writer is part of the Medical Channel Asia editorial team. The Medical Channel Asia editorial team brings together a diverse group of seasoned journalists, pharmacists, and doctor to deliver breaking news, insightful analysis, informed opinions, and thought-provoking perspectives into the world of healthcare.

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 3rd DOC, held on 3 Jul (Saturday), from 2pm to 3pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Felix Li from Dr Felix Li Medical Aesthetics Clinic, to talk to us about Medical Aesthetics. In this first ever ‘Ask Me Anything’ style of the DOC webinar series, we have Dr Felix…

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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 3rd DOC, held on 3 Jul (Saturday), from 2pm to 3pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Felix Li from Dr Felix Li Medical Aesthetics Clinic, to talk to us about Medical Aesthetics. In this first ever ‘Ask Me Anything’ style of the DOC webinar series, we have Dr Felix…

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Many have the fear of going “blind” because acquired blindness is a significant disability that can reduce one’s quality of life.  However, being diagnosed as blind does not necessarily imply absolute blindness. This is a rather common misconception. In fact, absolute blindness – defined as “no light perception”, is uncommon. Most of the time, when optometrists diagnose a patient as “blind”, they are referring to legal blindness, which means that their best corrected vision is 3/60 or less, and/or have a visual field which subtends an angular distance of 10 degrees or less around fixation. Individuals with legal blindness may…

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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 2nd DOC, held on 18 Jun (Friday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Lee Fang Jann, urologist and renal transplant surgeon from UroDoc, to talk to us about Men’s Health. For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr Lee give us a short presentation on…

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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 2nd DOC, held on 18 Jun (Friday), from 8pm to 9pm (GMT+8), we have Dr Lee Fang Jann, urologist and renal transplant surgeon from UroDoc, to talk to us about Men’s Health. For Part 1 of the forum, we have Dr Lee give us a short presentation on…

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