Singaporeans are living longer than ever before, yet more of those added years are being spent in poor health
STUDENT MATTERS
NUS Medicine Students Awarded Top Undergraduate Research Awards for Advancing Patient‑Centred Medical Research
Issue 60
Nov 2026
In an era where our students can access, in a single prompt, more information than any of us accumulated over years of training, our task is no longer simply to teach them what to know. We must teach them to wield these powerful tools with both confidence and conscience—and to do the irreplaceably human things.
ETHICALLY SPEAKING
What Prenatal Screening Reveals About Our Attitudes Toward Disability
Precision medicine looks to a future where disease can be predicted, prevented or even eliminated through genetics. From prenatal screening to embryo selection, medical technologies are increasingly able to tell us what kind of lives our children might have before they are even born.
