Patient’s Drugs Delivery
Dr Tan & Partners Singapore now delivers medicine to patients throughout Singapore. As medicine advances into the digital age, accessibility to healthcare has become much easier over the years. Our friendly in-house pharmacist is trained to respond to your drug delivery requests in a timely manner. Please visit:...
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Clinic Focus General consultations, including management of acute Chronic Disease Management Women’s Health Men’s Health Children’s Health Health screening STI/STD Screening, Testing and Treatment Rapid HIV testing Minor surgical procedures Routine screenings ( Driver’s License/ Work permit/ PR/ Long term visit pass etc) Adult & child vaccinations (routine & ad-hoc) Travel Health and...
read moreHealth Screening for Women
Health Screening for Women Health screening is vital as it helps detect any disease early before any signs or symptoms appear. Although you feel absolutely fine, it is important to undergo regular health screening as the earlier you detect any disease and undergo appropriate treatment and follow up, the better the outcome. Aside from the recommended general screening tests for adults, this article will focus on health screening for women. For information on General Health Screening for Adults click HERE. Cervical cancer screening: With early...
read moreWhat is Ultrasound?
An ultrasound scan is a radiological investigation that can be used in a variety of situations. As the name suggests, the scan is performed using sound waves that bounce and reflect off different substances within the body and return to the probe. Depending on the speed of return and strength of the soundwave (wave strength diminishes with distance) and image is recreated on the screen giving us a picture the body’s internal organs. Most substances within the body exhibit a degree of sound reflectivity and sound transmittance allowing us...
read moreMen’s Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing
For a long time, there has been no established HPV tests for men. However, recently there has been growing evidence that the new HPV tests can be used for screening in men. To understand Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, we must first appreciate the fact that HPV lives inside our skin and mucosal cells. It is not found in the blood. In other words, we need to take skin or mucosal cells, crack them open, then use DNA testing methods to find the virus inside. In other words, we can only test for HPV in very specific areas. There is no...
read moreHealth Matters: Cardiovascular Disease & Screening.
We live in an era of unparalleled advance, and by all impressions, things only look set to get better. Advances in science and technology have spurred many modern medical breakthroughs .Life expectancies continue to grow, and our overall health has improved. In the past, infectious diseases such as pneumonia and sepsis were the major causes of death, and polio used to be the major cause of disability. In the modern age of antibiotics and vaccines, these threats have all but disappeared. Instead, over the decades, we’ve seen the rise of...
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