{"id":4837,"date":"2026-02-06T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:57:04","slug":"the-heat-inside-why-urban-heat-is-a-hidden-health-crisis-and-how-cities-can-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/the-heat-inside-why-urban-heat-is-a-hidden-health-crisis-and-how-cities-can-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The heat inside: Why urban heat is a hidden health crisis \u2014 and how cities can fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 data-testid=\"heading-test-id\">TCM can be part of a country\u2019s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For decades, Singapore\u2019s Chinese community<b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>has turned to acupuncture treatments, barley water and herbal remedies not only to boost healing and wellness, but also to cope with the hot weather.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">These traditional approaches should not be overlooked as Singapore builds a suite of solutions to strengthen resilience against rising temperatures, said heat experts and historians from the National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This was the conclusion of the team\u00a0from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine), who traced how people have navigated daily heat and humidity since the early 20th century\u00a0using Western remedies and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/environment\/tcm-can-be-part-of-a-countrys-toolkit-against-rising-heat-nus-study?ref=top-stories\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Jason Lee directs the Heat Resilience &#038; Performance Centre at the National University of Singapore&#8217;s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and chairs the Global Heat Health Information Network&#8217;s Southeast Asia Hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9460,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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