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Cell Phone Radiation Cause Osteoporosis
Research suggests that wearing a cell phone on your hip may weaken an area of your pelvis. Using an X-ray technique used in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with osteoporosis, researchers measured pelvic bone density in 150 men who regularly carried their cell phones attached to their belts. The men carried their phones for [...]
Scoliosis Braces: A Waste of Money?
Scoliosis Screening in Singapore is part of the School Health Service (SHS) school-based screening
programme since 1981. The idea is to discover scoliosis, since early detection of scoliosis will hopefully allow for remedial action such as bracing to avoid the need for invasive surgery. But what does the current evidence say?
Osteoporosis Risk for Singapore Men and Women
SALES executive Sherilyn Ong’s grandmother suffered from osteoporosis and she is worried that, with her current lifestyle, she might be at risk of contracting the disease as well. The 25-year-old smokes occasionally, goes clubbing every weekend and does not exercise – all things that could raise her chances of getting the disease, a condition where [...]
Ankylosing Spondylitis in Singapore
PAIN is what a 25-year-old arthritis sufferer has been living with for nine years. The university student, who wants to be known as Bai, was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis – a form of arthritis – when he was 16.
More young Singaporeans like him are being diagnosed with arthritis, a chronic condition that causes painful inflammation of the joints. In 2007, 4.9 per cent of people here aged 18 to 29 had arthritis, a survey by the Health Ministry showed. In 2001, just 0.3 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 had arthritis. While the cause of arthritis remains unknown, two Singapore doctors have attributed the rising number of young sufferers to increased awareness, as well as the growing obesity rate (being overweight increases stress on joints). They revealed this at a press conference yesterday, during which the findings of a study on arthritis were announced.