Also in this issue, we take a look at an implant and intensive rehabilitation programme called RESTORES (restoration of rehabilitative function with epidural spinal stimulation), a clinical trial conducted by the National Neuroscience Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research to see how it has helped patients who were paralysed waist down, walk again. We also learn about how coffee consumption reduces Parkinson’s disease risk in people genetically predisposed to the ailment; and the nutritional needs of patients on palliative care.

Find out too about a new non-thermal treatment which eliminates small-volume prostate cancer while preserving healthy surrounding tissue very near the prostate; tasty hospital dishes created following a collaboration between Jumbo Group and Singapore General Hospital; and how GPs can now book specialist outpatient appointments for patients.

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