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Understanding the Role of Therapy in PTSD Recovery
PTSD can feel unrelenting, but therapy can help the brain break free from survival mode. Explore effective treatment approaches, what recovery looks like, and how to choose a path that works for you.
Is It Safe to Have Sex During Pregnancy?
Pregnancy changes desire, comfort, and confidence. Here is a close look at what is typically safe, how libido shifts across trimesters, and when sex should wait.
Healing with Animals: How Animal-Assisted Therapy Supports Trauma Recovery
From dogs to horses, animal-assisted therapy is reshaping trauma care by combining emotional safety, physical regulation, and evidence-based techniques.
Shingles: The Painful Surprise Hiding In Your Nerves
For most adults above 50 in Singapore, the virus that causes shingles is already in the body. When it reactivates, it can trigger intense nerve pain and serious health risks.
5 Surprising Eczema Products No One Talks About
Moisturisers are only the beginning. Many people with eczema rely on unexpected items to make everyday itch more manageable – here’s five.
How to Sleep With a Blocked Nose
Wondering why your blocked nose at night feels so much worse? From air-conditioning dryness to allergens in your bedroom, here are practical ways to ease congestion and sleep better.
The Biggest Mistake People Make After Dental Implants
Just got dental implants? The surgery is the easy part. What you do next decides whether they last years or decades. These are the habits that matter most.
Deep Sleep: What It Is, Why It Matters & How to Get More of It
Feeling tired despite a full night’s rest? You may not be getting enough deep sleep. This guide explains why deep sleep declines, what affects it, and how to restore your most restorative stage of sleep.
When a Growing Prostate Starts Shrinking Your Life
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) creeps up quietly, turning daily routines into challenges before men realise what is happening. Here is why ignoring the symptoms can be risky and when to see a doctor.
The Unseen Itch: Over Half of Singaporeans With Eczema Struggle With Sleep Loss, Shame and Social Withdrawal Due to Itch
A new survey uncovers how chronic eczema itch disrupts sleep, work and emotional well-being in Singapore. Respondents describe bleeding flare-ups, shame, isolation and inconsistent relief. Here is what the first 100 voices revealed.
Why Belly Fat Is Harder to Lose After 40
Struggling with belly fat after 40? Hormones, muscle loss, slower metabolism, stress and poor sleep can all reshape the midlife waistline. Here is why it happens and what you can realistically do.
BMDP Becomes World’s First Registry to Fully Subsidise Patients’ Stem Cell Procurement
From 2026, Singapore’s BMDP will fully subsidise stem cell procurement costs for Singaporean and PR patients in public hospitals. Announced at Match for Life 2025, the move aims to ease financial barriers while rallying employers through a new Corporate Partner Programme.
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