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Health Matters - Is vaccination necessary for Teenagers?

You don’t only take vaccines as a baby, or in your older years. Teenagers here are also on a schedule of certain vaccines such as MMR and HPV. Are there other optional vaccines you should consider for your teenager as well?

Guest: Dr Lim Hui Ling, Medical Director, International Medical Clinic.

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Health Matters - World Tuberculosis Day Special; Around a thousand cases here every year

Guest: Dr Deborah Ng, Director, National TB Programme (NTBP), Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA)

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Health Matters - War Weary: Can overexposure to big global issues trigger genuine mental health concerns?

Even though we’re barely two weeks into the U.S-Israel war on Iran, it has been one major issue after another - from global tariffs to a Greenland ultimatum, AI microchip challenges, strained Japanese-Chinese ties and the still looming Russia-Ukraine conflict. Sometimes, it may seem like too much. Could this seemingly never ending flow of international uncertainties weigh so heavily on you that it triggers or brings on genuine anxiety and tensions? Daniel Martin speaks with Dr Geraldine Tan, Director / Principal Clinical and Counselling Psychologist, The Therapy Room.

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Health Matters - Why are 7 to 11-month-old infants at greater risk of measles?

Guest: Dr Loh Jiashen, infectious diseases specialist at Farrer Park Hospital

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Health Matters - Inside the New Digestive Health Centre: Ulcer, Liver, Colorectal health and more

Guest: Adjunct Associate Professor Lee Guan Huei, Centre Director, National University Centre for Digestive Health, National University Hospital & Head and Senior Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital.

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