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		Bubble-tea ‘pearls’ sent for AVA tests MY Paper 16/06/2011
		A BUBBLE-TEA drinker was surprised when told yesterday by staff of a bubble-tea outlet that he could not have “pearls” in his tea. The customer, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang, visited popular bubble-tea chain Koi Cafe’s Illuma outlet in the afternoon and ordered a large cup of tea with extra “pearls” – chewy morsels made with tapioca. Read more >>

		S’pore-made kit to diagnose dengue fever The Straits Times 16/06/2011
		TESTING of a Singapore-developed kit that uses saliva to diagnose dengue fever has expanded to Sri Lanka after a similar effort kicked off in Cambodia in March last year. Developed by the local Environmental Health Institute (EHI), the kit has already been tried out on some 140 patients here from 2005 to 2007 with promising results. Read more >>

		Fight strokes with anti-clotting drug Mind Your Body; The Straits Times 16/06/2011
		This new drug does not require regular monitoring, frequent dose adjustments and has no diet restrictions. Ng Wan Ching reports. A new anti-clotting drug has been shown to better prevent strokes in people who have atrial fibrillation – a heart rhythm disorder which can cause strokes – than the current standard drug, warfarin. Read more >>

		Keep walking for good health Mind Your Body; The Straits Times 16/06/2011
		People walk every day to get from one point to another without thinking twice about it. But walking is vital to one’s health. Up to 30 per cent of elderly patients who lose their ability to walk because of a fracture die from complications within a year, said Dr Lim Lian Arn, a orthopaedic surgeon at Raffles Hospital. The complications include chest infections, urinary tract infections and aggravated bed sores. Read more >>

		Clearing cataracts and poor vision Mind Your Body; The Straits Times 16/06/2011
		Having a cataract leaves one in a blur but surgery could also offer the sufferer a chance to get perfect eyesight again. Lens implants have progressed so far that it is now possible not only to replace the eye’s cloudy lens with a clear one, but also with one that corrects for up to three other conditions at once. They are either myopia (short sightedness) or hyperopia (long sightedness); presbyopia (laohua in Mandarin) and astigmatism. Read more >>