Protecting your skin from the sun

Protecting your skin from the sun

Learn how to minimise the harmful effects of the rays and be safe going outdoors.   BY: Eleanor Yap   We can’t avoid the sun but there are certain things we can do to minimise the harmful effects of the rays. Ageless Online checks in with Dr Chong Wei Sheng,...
Free Pap smear screening at 178 clinics

Free Pap smear screening at 178 clinics

Cervical cancer is preventable and curable if it is treated in the pre-cancerous stage. Protect yourself with regular screening.   The Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) is holding its eight Cervical Cancer Awareness Month (CVCAM) in May 2013, in partnership with the...
Foster grandparent

Foster grandparent

The Grandparent Fostering Programme, a community programme launched in Jalan Kukoh precinct in November 2012, bonds the young and old together, and bridges the generation gap. BY: Eleanor Yap   Generation gap and language barrier are some of the challenges facing...
Training your brain to understand better

Training your brain to understand better

For those with light hearing loss or those who have given up on their hearing aids, there is a new solution that trains your brain to process sound faster and more accurately.   BY: Eleanor Yap   If you thought that it was your ears that actually do the...
Getting retirement right

Getting retirement right

How to get it right the only time around.   BY: Gerald Crawford   A good sign showing a person enjoying retirement completely would be someone who has no idea or no inclination to know weekday from weekend. This clearly shows someone who is focused on...
Prominent business leaders raise funds

Prominent business leaders raise funds

Fortis Colorectal Hospital ropes in five business leaders to raise funds and bring awareness to colorectal cancer.     In conjunction with Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 2013, Fortis Colorectal Hospital (FCH), enlisted the help of five prominent business...
Turning the tables

Turning the tables

Seniors have often been dispensing advice to the young. The time has come to hear what the young would like to say to those older. BY: Eleanor Yap   There is no denying it – seniors have a world of experience and with that brings lots of wisdom. Seniors often...
Protect your eyes from glare

Protect your eyes from glare

There are many types of glare that you may come across including glare in the sun, at night and in front of screens of devices. Find out what you can do to minimise the glare.   BY: Dr Lee Sao Bing   Glare is the difficulty seeing in the presence of bright...
Battling cough & cold

Battling cough & cold

It is flu season and we have more options to relieve our cough and cold.   Household brand Panadol has launched its Panadol Cough & Cold (left) for relief of cough and cold symptoms. In caplet form, Panadol Cough & Cold provides effective and convenient...
A recipe using chia seeds

A recipe using chia seeds

Nutritious and tasty!   Here is one recipe from The Chia Co in Australia, which is selling its chia products here in Singapore (permission given to use). This recipe works great with pomfret, tilapia or red snapper:   Chia steamed fish:   Preparation...
Small but packs a punch

Small but packs a punch

There is a lot of fuss about chia and its reign over flaxseed. We give you the lowdown.   BY: Derrick Ong   Salvia hispanica, commonly known as chia, is a species of flowering desert plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. This plant is native to central and...
Reminiscing about the good old days

Reminiscing about the good old days

Lam Chun See shares memories of what it was like growing up in a kampung in the 1950s and 1960s though his nostalgia blog.   BY: Joanne Tok   Lam Chun See (left) felt a disconnect between the young and the old. As a result, he started a nostalgia blog called...
My golden years

My golden years

A senior shares in a poem what her golden years means to her.   BY: Maureen Tay   In my golden years I may beAge is fast creeping up on meAnd WiFi to me is quite a choreBut nothing can make me a bore. Time and tide wait for no manI will take the world while...
Retire happy

Retire happy

AXA launches the only suite of retirement solutions in the market designed to mitigate inflation post-retirement.   AXA Life Insurance Singapore has launched “Retire Happy”, the only suite of retirement solutions that exists today in the market to offer...
Cancer of the blood & bone marrow now more treatable

Cancer of the blood & bone marrow now more treatable

Multiple myeloma has become more a chronic disease than a terminal one, thanks to new treatments.   BY: Eleanor Yap   Ten years ago, those with multiple myeloma (MM) (also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma), a cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells...