S1E126: The difference between Asian and Caucasian skin
Season 1 · Episode 126
Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 32:54
How effective are your skincare products?
Synopsis: Every first Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.
We all want to look as young and as healthy as possible, and one way to do so is to have healthy skin. But, as we age, our skin becomes thinner, less elastic and more dry and sensitive. There’s also a difference between Asian and Caucasian skin, but most dermatological research has focused on Caucasian populations.
How can we then delay the skin ageing process?
To find out more, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo speaks to an expert on ageing skin - Professor Rachel Watson - who had spent 30 years in the United Kingdom studying what exactly changes in the skin as we age and how the environment accelerates skin ageing.
She has come to Singapore to study Asian skin, and has just started a new research project looking at Asian skin ageing and the possible interventions that can be used to improve skin health and prevent skin diseases.
Prof Watson is the executive director of the Skin Research Institute of Singapore and the A*STAR Skin Research Labs.
Highlights (click/tap above):
2:04 Difference between Asian and Caucasian skin
6:48 Prof Watson’s new four-year study on ageing in Asian skin.
17:38 Ingredients to look out for in your skincare products
22:29 Protect the health of all your skin, and not just the skin on your face
Synopsis: Every first and third Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.
Traditional healthcare is based on doctor and hospital visits, and it can take a long time to obtain appointments to see a healthcare professional. What if one day, an individual can be prescribed a digital therapy for their depression or other health issues remotely? He or she would not have to take any medications.
In this Health Check podcast episode, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo speaks to Professor Dean Ho, the director of the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the head of the NUS biomedical engineering department, to find out more about digital therapeutics or DTx.
He’s just written a book on DTx with two other researchers Mr Yoann Sapanel and Dr Agata Blasiak from the institute titled Medicine Without Meds: Revolutionising Healthcare With Digital Solutions.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:12 What is DTx?
9:24 Challenges of DTx?
10:57 How can DTx further personalise care?
23:05 Prof Ho’s experiments
Produced by: Joyce Teo (joyceteo@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Amirul Karim & Eden Soh
S1E35: Why Singapore's Covid-19 circuit breaker measures cannot be lifted so early: Health Check Ep 35
Season 1 · Episode 35
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 • Duration 14:07
Health Check Ep 35: Why Singapore's Covid-19 circuit breaker measures cannot be lifted so early
14:06 mins
Synopsis: This is a fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays by The Straits Times. For the latest state of Singapore's health in its Covid-19 fight, ST senior correspondent Joyce Teo speaks with Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang.
He is the infectious diseases programme leader at the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
Singapore has extended its circuit breaker period to June 1, and has seen its coronavirus cases shoot past the 10,000-mark as of April 22, after recording about 500 in March.
He talks us through the following points:
1. What is the extent of the spread in the foreign worker dormitories? How does that ratio compare with the spread in the local community? (1:42)
2. Singapore could continue to see a high number of cases emerging from the dormitories for the next few weeks, but is there a silver lining? (2:45)
3. Why it is important to control the outbreak in the migrant worker communities before there are considerations to lift circuit breaker restrictions (5:13)
4. What is the difference between asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic cases? (8:31)
5. When is the viral load highest? (9:13)
6. What's the difference between a PCR test and a serology test? Why we cannot just use any serology test available out there (11.32)
S1E34: "I had hallucinations" - Discharged coronavirus patient Ben who spent 13 days in ICU: Health Check Ep 34
Season 1 · Episode 34
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 • Duration 15:11
Health Check Ep 34: "I had hallucinations," said discharged coronavirus patient, who spent 13 days in ICU
15:10 mins
Synopsis: This is a fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays by The Straits Times. We usually bring you tips and expert advice but in this episode, ST senior correspondent Joyce Teo spoke with Ben, 55, who had tested positive for Covid-19 at Alexandra Hospital on March 5 and developed severe disease. She asked him about his early symptoms and his ICU experience.
When Ben sought help at the hospital that day, he was given high amounts of oxygen via an oxygen mask, even though he said he wasn't panting or gasping for breath. Little did he know that on that same day, his condition would worsen so much that he had to be put on life support. Ben spent 13 days in ICU and was discharged on March 21.
S1E33: Proper community behaviour can best manage coronavirus spread in countries: Health Check Ep 33
Season 1 · Episode 33
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 • Duration 06:01
Health Check Ep 33: Proper community behaviour can best manage coronavirus spread in countries
6:01 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health with expert guests.
In this episode, ST senior correspondent Joyce Teo hosts infectious diseases specialist Professor Dale Fisher, group director of medicine at the National University Health System and chair of the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
He was part of a joint World Health Organization-China mission to study the coronavirus threat and containment efforts earlier this year.
Professor Fisher answers the following questions:
1. Can the coronavirus be contained to prevent health services from being overwhelmed? Lessons from China? (1:12)
2. Covid-19 is a community-transmitted disease. Can every single person, regardless of which industry they work in, take action to prevent the coronavirus spread? (2:28)
3. Advice for the vulnerable: The elderly and children (3:33)
4. Do no underestimate each person's role in helping their countries manage this community-transmitted disease (4:50)
S1E32: How to encourage pregnant women to exercise more: Health Check Ep 32
Season 1 · Episode 32
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 • Duration 13:50
Health Check Ep 32: How to encourage pregnant women to exercise more
13:25 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health with expert guests.
In this episode, ST senior correspondent Joyce Teo and podcasting head Ernest Luis host Dr Serene Thain, an associate consultant from the Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine at KK Women's and Children's Hospital.
The first guidelines on physical activity and exercise for pregnant women were released earlier in January in a bid to curb the high rate of gestational diabetes here.
This episode is aimed at popular misconceptions about exercising during pregnancy. Mothers-in law, do have a listen too!
Dr Thain answers the following questions:
1. Why pregnant women should aim for a target of 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercises (divide the time into daily slots or at least three times a week) (3:05)
2. How to avoid hypoglycaemia, which is dangerous for pregnant women (5:40)
3. Danger signs pregnant women should notice while exercising (8:40)
4. Should women lie flat on their backs in prolonged yoga sessions, especially after the fourth month of pregnancy? (11:05)
S1E31: Breaking common misconceptions about exercise: Health Check Ep 31
Season 1 · Episode 31
Sunday, March 1, 2020 • Duration 15:17
Health Check Ep 31: Breaking common misconceptions about exercise
17:25 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health with expert guests.
In this episode, ST correspondent Joyce Teo and podcasting head Ernest Luis host Dr Dinesh Sirisena, who is a consultant at the sports medicine department of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
This episode is aimed at popular misconceptions about exercise.
Dr Dinesh answers the following questions:
1. Doing crunches: Does that really give you a "flat tummy"? (0:35)
2. Is it true that a person needs to work out every day, to lose weight? (2:33)
3. Is it good to avoid eating before you exercise, to help you lose weight faster? (4:36)
4. Body mass index: Is there a trend to move away from only BMIs as a sole gauge, and consider too, body composition and body fat percentages? The bioimpedance machine at Admiralty Medical Centre can calculate your body fat percentage, and that is more accurate than BMI. (7:59)
5. If you have injured a part of your body, for example, your knee or ankle, should you lay off exercise completely? (12:33)
S1E30: How to practise intermittent fasting safely and lose some weight: Health Check Ep 30
Season 1 · Episode 30
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 • Duration 11:05
Health Check Ep 30: How to practise intermittent fasting safely to lose some weight
11:05 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health.
In this episode, ST correspondent Joyce Teo and podcasting head Ernest Luis host Ms Alvernia Chua, a senior dietitian with National Healthcare Group Polyclinics.
She will clear up the air about a popular weight loss approach called intermittent fasting. What are the different methods? What are the misconceptions?
There are different methods, such as fasting for 16 hours and eating within an eight-hour window, or fasting on alternate days or for an entire day in a week.
What reduces weight is total amount of calories consumed in a day (1:25)
Find out why those with diabetes should view intermittent fasting methods with caution (3:18)
Which groups of people - including breastfeeding mothers - should not try intermittent fasting (4:35)
What is the 16:8 intermittent fasting method? (6:10)
Side effects of intermittent fasting methods (9:20)
S1E29: Virologist Prof Wang Linfa offers hand hygiene tips to counter novel coronavirus threat: Health Check Ep 29
Season 1 · Episode 29
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 • Duration 12:18
Health Check Ep 29: Virologist Prof Wang Linfa offers hand hygiene tips to counter novel coronavirus threat
12:17 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health.
In this episode, ST correspondent Joyce Teo calls Professor Wang Linfa.
He is the director of the emerging infectious disease programme at Duke-NUS Medical School. He is also a virologist who was part of the World Health Organization Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus outbreak.
We ask him the latest updates on the novel coronavirus, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
Professor Wang tells us:
How to be aware and maintain hand hygiene when using lifts and public toilets, because contact transmission for the novel coronavirus is potent (1:17)
Droplet transmission threat for coronaviruses: What should you do to protect yourself better when using taxis or private hire cars for example? (4:23)
Is faecal transmission possible with the novel coronavirus? (6:35)
Tips for older people and those with existing conditions (7:19)
One good tip on using a ballpoint pen and its cap to press lift buttons and reduce your skin's exposure to possible coronaviruses (9:41)
S1E28: How to practise better hygiene in wake of coronavirus: Health Check Ep 28
Season 1 · Episode 28
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 • Duration 12:28
Health Check Ep 28: How to practise better hygiene in wake of Wuhan coronavirus
12:27 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health.
In this episode, ST correspondent Joyce Teo and podcasting head Ernest Luis talk about how we can all start practising better hygiene in the wake of the mysterious novel coronavirus - 2019-nCov - that originated in Wuhan.
Should we all wear masks now? (0:52)
Is it true that flipping surgical masks inside out is the right thing to do? (2:24)
Is there an art to washing and sanitising hands properly? How to choose proper hand sanitisers? (4:00)
What are the symptoms and the incubation period of the Wuhan coronavirus? (6:54)
Health authorities say that it generally requires prolonged exposure to the infected person for you to catch the bug. How is prolonged exposure defined? (8:52)
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