Issue 161: The Push for Palliative Care
Palliative care has been increasingly prioritised in healthcare systems today, with several countries initiating new programmes to boost the capabilities of healthcare workers in the field. What accounts for this trend, and what are its…
Issue 160: Transnational Education and Demographic Transition
In this last decade, more and more Southeast Asian students are seeking education abroad as an alternative to local education systems. In a recent study conducted by Acumen, Southeast Asia has become the third largest…
Issue 159: Managing Mental Health
Increasing climate anxiety and escalating global conflicts have left an indelible mark on the mental well-being of our youth, raising concerns about a looming global mental health crisis. As traditional mental health services strain to…
Issue 154: Long-Term Repercussions of Educational Disruption
What happens when education is interrupted? With conflicts erupting around the world, the daily lives of many students and educators have been disrupted. In the Gaza strip, bombs have severely destroyed schools and education has…
Issue 153: Retail Healthcare on the Rise
With the growing popularity of retail healthcare, seeing a doctor might soon be just as convenient as getting your groceries. Prominent retailer chains in the U.S. have begun offering primary healthcare services, including virtual consultations,…
Issue 147: Telemedicine for the future?
In line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal of attaining universal healthcare coverage for all, how should we reinvent healthcare such that it is accessible and affordable? The pandemic undeniably transformed traditional healthcare services,…
Issue 137: Will ChatGPT become your next doctor?
Since its launch in Nov 2022, ChatGPT has astonished many in academia and professional circles with its ‘generative AI’ capabilities. Its ability to ‘learn’ knowledge and produce responses that mimic human writing is so strong…
Issue 136: Rethinking the university route
Malaysia’s new Minister for Higher Education recently announced plans to address the lack of interest in higher education among Malaysian youths. In doing so, the Ministry aims to raise the overall education level and position…
Issue 135: Lecanemab – A silver lining for patients with Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for 60-70% of dementia cases worldwide, may soon be treatable. The newest experimental drug, lecanemab, developed by pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen, was found to slow down cognitive decline by 27%…
Issue 134: Toward a student-centred approach in pedagogy and assessment
Student-centred instructional approaches advocate involving students in decisions regarding their learning and eschewing a one-size-fits-all mentality to pedagogy and assessment. Such approaches shift the focus from having external and highly impersonal benchmarks to one that…
Issue 133: A step towards integrative medicine with Healthier SG
World leaders gathered in Egypt this past week for the COP27 global climate summit – a meeting seen as critical to negotiate how the world will further cut carbon emission to bring climate change under control. And the focus this…
Issue 132: Managing student well-being in a post-COVID climate
While many schools have shifted back to in-person schooling after the peak of the pandemic, many educators still approach the school year with cautious optimism. To ease anxieties, deeper infrastructural changes can be made in…
