The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) is proud to organise Singapore LIVE (SingLIVE) 2025, Asia’s pre-eminent annual medical conference in cardiac interventions.

Prof Kawaguchi’s paper titled “Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator: Efficient Amortization for Arbitrary Differential Operators” (STDE) addresses a critical challenge in AI and computational mathematics — efficient computation of derivatives for complex systems. The team’s innovative STDE introduces a scalable, efficient, and highly parallisable method to solve high-dimensional problems, significantly reducing computational demand while improving accuracy.  In a demonstration of its prowess, the team solved a million-dimensional problem in just eight minutes on a single GPU, a task that would have taken traditional methods weeks.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Obesity Society (TOS) applauds the work of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on Diagnostic Criteria of Clinical Obesity to refine the definition of obesity and establish a framework for diagnosing other chronic diseases caused by excess adiposity. Several prominent experts in obesity and related metabolic diseases who are members of TOS served on the Commission offering scientific and clinical expertise.  The Lancet Commission framework aims to address challenges with the traditional definition and diagnosis of obesity that impede clinical practice and access to care for people living with obesity. Given the complexities of obesity, this is an important first step in reaching a consensus on diagnostic criteria, many of which will inevitably undergo further clarification and modification as additional research emerges.

Alcohol is blamed for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. every year. That’s more than the annual 13,500 alcohol-associated traffic fatalities. New "mocktails" can help curb the urge to drink.