Zika virus in Singapore: unanswered questions

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Zika Virus: More Questions Than Answers

The recent Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization in February 2016. It started in Brazil in 2015, rapidly spread through South and Central America, and is expected to reach the continental US in the summer of 2016. The appearance of ZIKV has been connected with an increase in cases of microcephaly ...

Yoga: Some Unanswered Questions

Grover et al (1994) have provided an excellent and thought provoking analysis of the usefulness of yoga in treating neurotic disorders. Some questions however remain. One criticism of psychotherapy is that the criteria for the selection of suitable candidates usually identify patients with good prognostic features-patients who may improve even without any therapeutic intervention. Another criti...

Pregnancy- Some Unanswered Questions

The definition of pregnancy as the state of a female in the time interval between fertilization of her ova and the expulsion of the foetuses at term, lays focus on the maternal organism and casual thinking tends to emphasize maternal physiology and welfare. In part, this is due to the fact that the maternal organism is reasonably accessible for day to day observations and measurements which do ...

Unanswered Questions in HIV Hematology

1Division of Hematology, St. Paul’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, 440-1144 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2A5 2Centre for Lymphoma, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA 3Division of Hematology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M4N 3M5 4Division of Hematology, St. ...