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Venting anger may make you angrier

Anger is an unpleasant emotional response that exists on a continuum ranging from mild anger to intense fury and rage. Physiologically, anger exhibits a spectrum of arousal level from minimal arousal to pronounced sympathetic arousal with heightened...

Apr 19, 2024
Rejuvenating Effects of Aging: Fact or Fiction?

The New Paradigm Shift in Aging Aging is a process of chronic, normal culmination of the loss of specific regenerative and bioprotective mechanism that occurs over a period. In addition, at cellular level, primary aging-related mechanisms occurs as ...

Oct 26, 2023
Combined Forces of Revascularisation and Optimal Medical Therapy in Conquering Chronic Coronary Syndrome

Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) has traditionally been categorised into acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and coronary artery disease (CAD) 1 . With a better understanding of Cardiology and therapeutic advancement, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)...

Oct 26, 2023
Maintain Physically Active After Stroke for Better Recovery

The health benefits of physical activity are undeniable, especially in reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and various cancers. More than the prevention of ill health, being physical active indeed promotes better functional capacity and rec...

Jun 13, 2023
Effectiveness of Controlling Sugar-related Chronic Diseases by Taxation

Excessive sugar intake is associated with the increased risk of obesity and chronic diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular conditions. Thus, health promotion programs reducing sugar intake among population is needed to contain the prevalence...

Jun 13, 2023
Virtual Wards, A Cure for Waiting List?

The Health Crisis at Hand The concept of virtual wards have been around for a few years but has only recently gained more attention due to the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic 1 . The COVID-19 pandemic had caused havoc in healthcare indu...

Jun 13, 2023
Mitigation of Smartphone-induced Disturbances of Circadian Cycle

Recognising evening exposure to blue light emitted from the screen of smartphones potentially compromises sleep quality by disturbing the circadian cycle and aggravates health issues, a recent study investigated the effects of night mode functions o...

Aug 5, 2020
The Power of Emoji

With the increasing popularity of digital communication platforms, emoji has been used as a new language worldwide, conveying non-verbal communication cues and substituting for the face-to-face conditions. Essentially, emoji enables people from diff...

Jun 24, 2020
Virtual Care: A Step towards Modernisation

COVID-19 has allowed the widespread adoption of communication and collaboration software to facilitate medical care at a distance, while reducing the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) between patien...

Jun 17, 2020
Thumb Up, Cell Phone Down!

“Writer’s bump” is a condition which callouses formed on the lateral knuckle of the third finger in individuals who tightly gripped pens or pencils. Similarly, thumb callouses have been reported to develop due to excessive video ga...

Jun 3, 2020