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The Singapore Medical Association (abbreviated SMA) is a professional association representing the interests of medical professionals in Singapore. It was established on September 15, 1959, replacing the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association. [2] As of 2020, it had over 8,200 members. [3] It publishes the monthly peer-reviewed ...
An Honorary Member of the Singapore Medical Association, Professor Chew delivered the SMA Lecture in 1998 and the Gordon Arthur Ransome Oration during the Golden Anniversary of the Academy of Medicine in 2007. He is married to Anna Hui, his classmate while they were in Hong Kong Medical School and together they have four children.
1 in 10,000 people [2] Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. [3][4][5] It is usually diagnosed in infancy or early childhood and if left untreated it is the most common genetic cause of infant death. [6] It may also appear later in life and then ...
Adrian Tan Cheng Bock[1][a] (Chinese: 陈清木; pinyin: Chén Qīngmù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chheng-bo̍k; born 26 April 1940) is a Singaporean politician and medical doctor. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayer Rajah SMC between 1980 and 2006. Tan contested in the 2011 ...
Death in Singapore. Graves at the Kranji War Cemetery – photographed on 13 November 2005. Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population. [1]
Balaji Sadasivan (/ ˈbɑːlədʒiː sɑːdəˈsiːvən / or / ˈbæ - sæ -/; 11 July 1955 – 27 September 2010) was a Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon. He attended Raffles Institution, Siglap Secondary School and National Junior College, and studied medicine at the University of Singapore. After graduating in 1979, he continued his ...
The death of a 73-year-old British man on a Singapore Airlines flight has again raised concerns about how climate change is increasing instances of flight turbulence.
He practised as an obstetrician at Kandang Kerbau Hospital (Singapore). He was Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) (6th council) in 1966/67. He delivered the 4th Galloway Memorial Lecture (Singapore Academy of Medicine) on Amniotomy in the Treatment of Placental Insufficiency Syndrome in 1964.