Your Health Concerns Answered Dear Doctor: My urine smells and sometimes I have a leaking problem. What causes this please? Dear Sheffield: Several conditions can cause foul-smelling urine. One of the most common causes of malodorous urine is a urinary tract infection (UTI). Patients with UTIs typically experience pain with urination, increased frequency of urination, [...]
Sweet Dreams On The Go If you travel regularly, but suffer from sleep disturbances like Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA), a good night’s sleep on the run is now very much within your reach! Somnetics Global Pte Ltd has recently launched the world’s smallest, lightest and most portable Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy machine in [...]
Experts Shed Light on Glaucoma - By Maripet L. Poso Picture this. At the back of our eyes, there are millions of retinal nerve fibers bundled together – called the optic nerve – that carry impulses from the retina in the eye to the brain. These impulses are then interpreted by the brain as images. Now, [...]
By Maripet L. Poso Unllike our waistline, the TV, or pizza crust, our hair is one of the things we don’t want to see getting thin. Each person typically has around 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on their head. The normal cycle of hair growth lasts for two to three years. Each hair grows approximately 1cm [...]
Warriors need not be male and muscular.Some are quite small-sized, some are female. A soft-spoken and petite middle-aged homemaker confi ned to a wheelchair maybe an unlikely but no less fearsome warrior. Even at her lowest point, when cancer cells had penetrated her lungs and her bones had driven her to her bed, Madam Wong [...]
Premature Ejaculation When is faster not necessarily better? That’s right – when we are talking about premature ejaculation or ‘PE’. PE, so known as ‘early ejaculation’ or ‘eager ejaculation’, occurs when a man ejaculates quicker or earlier than desired. It is actually a very common sexual concern. Can you learn to last longer without resorting [...]
