Singapore and Japan Clinician-Scientists Collaborate on Groundbreaking Telesurgery Trial Spanning over 5,000km

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.

08 Dec 2020

Keeping cool and safe in a hotter and more humid Singapore

NUS Medicine’s Human Potential Translational Research Programme embarks on new multidisciplinary, public health-focused project to study and identify solutions to manage heat stress in tropical climates.

13 Nov 2020

An MBBS with a difference

Undergraduate medical students at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine now have the opportunity to study for a Master’s degree in addition to their medical qualification, the MBBS. The Intercalated Year Programme (IYP) will give these medical students opportunities to learn beyond their curriculum and equip them with additional knowledge and skills that they will need as future doctors working in complex environments where multidisciplinary collaboration and interactions are common.