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insurance – health screening to predict heart attack risk?
By Patrick Lim  •  September 22, 2011
the free daily tabloid, today carried a report that hundreds of singaporeans will be involved in a landmark studay to develop a simple blood test that can predict if a person is at risk of a heart attack or even stroke. a team of scientists from the netherlands and singapore had discovered that more than 10 types of unique proteins, or biomarkers are present in the blood of people who recently had a stroke or heart attack. professor newman sze, ntu's lead scientist, estimates that the blood test kit can be developed for use during health screenings at local polyclinics and hospitals in 4 to 5 years' time. my comments: let me pose a rhetorical question; what happens when what professor newman sze has said that the kit has been fully developed and incorporated into health screenings on a national level through polyclinics and hospitals in 4 to 5 years' ......
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By Patrick Lim
Patrick is an Associate Director with Promiseland. He has more than 20 years of personal investment experience both in stock and shares and unit trusts. In his early years as an investor, he got burnt really bad in the infamous 1987 crash and again during the clob incident. With 2 decades of so-called battle scars behind him, the last few years (since 2003) have been good to him especially with his single country funds doing exceptionally well. On his investing style, he is both a technical analyst and fundamentalist. Patrick view wealth accumulation as part and parcel of the wealth management process but only if one has already executed his/her wealth protection planning on an on-going basis.
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