Press Releases

15 Apr 2021

Joint strategic recruitment of Dr Kevin White by GIS and NUS

Dr White’s appointment is part of GIS’ and NUS Medicine’s drive to recruit stellar scientific and industry talent into Singapore.

12 Apr 2021

Postpartum depression: Singaporean mothers find help through phone-based peer support

Studies from the NUS Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies find peer support, even at the basic level of WhatsApp messages, can help Singaporean mothers guard against the baby blues; trial under way to evaluate large-scale peer support programme using mobile app.

17 Mar 2021

Splitting sleep to create enduring long-term memories

Researchers at the National University of Singapore reported in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’ that napping as part of a daily schedule significantly improves learning and memory both when the total sleep duration over 24h is sufficient and when it is insufficient.

09 Mar 2021

Lower Dose, Less Toxic Radiopharmaceutical Produces Better Outcomes

NUS and Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) researchers successfully trial new, improved treatment for neuroendocrine cancers.

16 Feb 2021

A song a day keeps dementia at bay

Group singalong sessions are as good as health education programmes in helping to prevent cognitive decline in elderly people.

09 Feb 2021

Women’s reproductive longevity the focus for new NUS research

Bia-Echo Asia Centre for Reproductive Longevity and Equality will study ways to advance female fertility, lifespan and health-span.

27 Jan 2021

Efficient Lymphatic Drainage Slows Atherosclerosis Progression

Researchers from NUS Medicine have discovered that efficient lymphatic drainage is an important determinant of atherosclerosis progression and also demonstrated that the regression of atherosclerosis induced by the cholesterol-lowering drug, ezetimibe, was dependent on efficient lymphatic drainage.

26 Jan 2021

Digital Therapeutics for Seniors

A partnership between the Institute for Digital Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Marsiling Grassroots Organisations and Sunlove Marsiling Senior Activity Centre.

06 Jan 2021

The nurse will see you now online

Nurse-clinicians, enabled by technology, provide care for recovering heart attack patients through telehealth – a system that can be as good as cardiologists’ face-to-face consultations.

29 Dec 2020

Estate of medical alumna bequeaths S$6.75M to her alma mater

The gift from Dr Freda Paul’s estate will enable NUS Medicine to establish the Freda Paul Bursary Fund, Freda Paul Professorship and student prizes, supporting female undergraduate medical students in their journey of learning and the advancement of an entire spectrum of translational research in the area of paediatrics.