Private health care: modernisation stops here

Feedback controversy stops here.

Even though nearly 20 years have passed since thrombin-mediated factor (f)XI activation was first described,1,2 the relevance of this feedback activation for coagulation remains controversial. In the activated partial thromboplastin time, fXI becomes activated by fXIIa due to contact activation-initiated coagulation. However, the relevance of fXIIamediated fXI activation in hemostasis is questi...

The buck stops here.

One of the questions that makes me squirm when I’m being interviewed by the media is “Dr Wilson, how much do family doctors earn?” I think I am uncomfortable for 2 reasons. The first is that I would much prefer to talk about the reasons why family doctors chose their profession, which generally include the desire to be of service to others in their communities. The second is that although medic...

The death stops here

The death stops here lants rely on a sensitive process of programmed cell death to curtail pathogenic infection by selectively executing infected cells. To prevent the death response from spreading to noninfected areas, cells near and at the site of infection activate autophagy, say and colleagues. In virus-infected plants that are unable to turn on autophagy, cell death spreads from the site o...

Transforming Singapore health care: public-private partnership.

Prudent health care policies that encourage public-private participation in health care financing and provisioning have conferred on Singapore the advantage of flexible response as it faces the potentially conflicting challenges of becoming a regional medical hub attracting foreign patients and ensuring domestic access to affordable health care. Both the external and internal health care market...

Closer to private health care options?