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April 1999

Editorial

Life after 40

Cheong PY

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):191-2

Invited Article

Portrait of an era - a social history of medicine in Singapore from 40 years of SMJ

Kua EH, Kua JPH

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):193-205

SMA News through the years

Goh LG

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):206-8

The founder president of the SMA

Baratham G

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):209-11

Conversation with past presidents

Goh LG

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):212-25

Doctors in Politics

A hugely likeable voice of conscience in the house (Straits Times, 13 March 1999)

Tan CB

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):226-7

Woman doctor in the house

Soin K

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):228-9

Original Article

A 3-year study on the effect of RGP contact lenses on myopic children

Khoo CY, Chong J, Rajan U

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):230-7

The natural history of dengue illness based on a study of hospitalised patients in Singapore

Tai DYH, Chee YC, Chan KW

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):238-42

A home made rapid urease test in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection

Chiu WY, Chick WK, Kwok KH

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):243-5

Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy for the correction of myopia

Wee TL, Chan WK, Tseng P, Tan D, Balakrishnan V, Low CH

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):246-50

Confidential regional enquiry into mature stillbirths and neonatal deaths--a multi-disciplinary peer panel perspective of the perinatal care of 238 deaths

Tan KH, Wyldes MP, Settatree R, Mitchell T

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):251-5

Changing trends in cataract surgery in Singapore

Lee SY, Tan D

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):256-9

Acupuncture treatment at Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital - a report on our initial experience

Yong D, Lim SH, Zhao CX, Cui SL, Zhang L, Lee TL

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):260-4

Hydatidiform mole in Kandang Kerbau Hospital - a 5-year review

Chong CYL, Koh CF

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):265-70

Minimally invasive surgical closure of atrial septal defects via a right anterior thoracotomy

Sim EK, Goh JJ, Grignani RT, Chen XZ, Duranni A

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):271-2

Case Report

Ring chromosome 22 resulting in partial monosomy in a mentally retarded boy

Gibbons B, Tan SY, Tam PY

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):273-5

Paradoxical seizures in phenytoin toxicity

Chua HC, Venketasubramanian N, Tan CB, Tjia H

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):276-7

Pulmonary nocardiosis in a child with hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome

Lee WS, Boey CCM, Goh AY

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):278-80

The ECG lead I sign" in cardiac disease - an indicator of coexisting obstructive pulmonary disease"

Yip JW, Chia BL, Tan WC

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):281-3

Curative therapy of cardiac tachyarrhythmias with catheter ablation - a review of the experience with the first 1000 patients

Teo WS, Kam R, Lim YL, Koh TH

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):284-90

Review Article

The clinical management of male infertility.

Razvi K, Chew S, Yong EL, Kumar J, Ng SC

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):291-7

The role of rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in Singapore

Lim TK

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):298-302

Assisted reproductive techniques - promises and problems

Chew SC, Kumar J, Foong LC, Ng SC

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):303-9

Conducting clinical trials in Singapore

Woo KT

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):310-3

Medical Education

Clinics in diagnostic imaging (36). Benign renal oncocytoma

Tan YM, Yip SK, Li MK

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):314-6

Glaucoma update - what physicians and the public need to know

Sim DHJ

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):317-20

Grand Round

Cyclical Cushing's syndrome - a trap for the unwary

Loh KC

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):321-4

History of Medicine

Whither Singapore psychiatry? How the mental hospital survived the Japanese occupation and the post-war years (Part I)

Ng BY

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):325-6

Amok - from the writings of Sir Frank Swettenham

Kua EH, Mohd S Sulaimi

Singapore Med J 1999; 40(4):327-8