Archives for “Health Screening”

Health screening for diseases like diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer and heart disease is a concern for everyone. There is currently a worldwide epidemic of ...


Screening for cancer is just one type of screening tool doctors use to help prevent cancer deaths by finding the cancer early or determining who ...


Screening for health concerns in women can be confusing. Tests you take when you’re forty are different from the tests you take when you’re twenty. ...


When we think of healthcare screening, we think of pap tests and mammograms—both uniquely female screening tests. Men, on the other hand, are not frequent ...


Breast cancer screening for women has been the number one reason why fewer and fewer women are dying of breast cancer over the past several ...


Many health screening recommendations by large health agencies recommend having healthcare screening by age forty, sooner if you have a family history of a disease. ...


Because millions of people are dying in Sub-Saharan Africa from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, there is little or no attention paid to the ...


A lot of emphasis is placed on health checks for women—on mammograms, Pap tests and the like. But men also need health screening and have ...


Many up and coming businesses and companies have excellent health screening programs, some of which have incentives to employees who participate in the annual health ...


  Read about the National Breast Screening Programme


Diabetes is a very common chronic medical problem that affects many people in modern society. The prevalence of Diabetes mellitus is a major concern among ...


There has been some controversy over whether mammograms should be done at 40 or 50 for woman following the guideline issued by United States Preventive ...


As you enter into the New Year 2010, you should aim to keep your body and mind healthy! A major catastrophic sickness like cancer, ...




Follow this action plan to ensure you have a healthy heart: Exercise at least three times a week for at least ...


The official guideline by the Ministry of Health in Singapore recommends that women 40-49 years of age should go for annual mammograms while those 50 ...


The incidence of breast cancer increases significantly in women over 50 years and above. But according to the National Health Survey in 2007 about 59 ...


Heart disease is the No.2 killer after cancer in Singapore. Approximately 1500 Singaporeans suffer from heart attack every year. About 30% of them die before ...


Regular liver cancer screening by ultasound scan can save lives! Early detection of liver cancer through regular screening is very important to patients who are at risk ...


What do Singaporeans die from? The answer to this question could be very helpful for us to avoid the pitfall of poor health. There were 17140 deaths ...


Health Screening Guideline for Men and Women Conditions to screen Health Screening Test? Target Age Group Frequency for health screening High blood pressure Blood Pressure measurement Over 40 years   Blood  Cholesterol Fasting Blood Cholesterol ...


It is now easier and more cost effective for Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to implement workplace health promotion programmes by tapping on the enhanced ...


Our government is encouraging Singaporeans to stay healthy and screen regularly with the Integrated Screening Programme (ISP). The Integrated Screening Programme (ISP) is a nation-wide health ...


My cousin was telling me the other day that she was trying in vain to get her father to go for health screening. Her father ...