This issue of the newsletter is focused on preventive and lifestyle medicine. While no one will argue the importance of preventive medicine which encompasses risk factor modification through public health measures, population screening and use of preventive pharmacotherapies -- Lifestyle medicine is still a relatively new term to most health care providers. In October 2017, the American and International Board of Lifestyle Medicine conducted their first inaugural lifestyle medicine certification exam in the United States, recognizing it as a legitimate medical specialty. So what is Lifestyle medicine? Is it grounded on good scientific evidence or just snake oil?

This Newsletter issue on Hearing Loss covers:

1) Otosclerosis and its latest treatments.
2) Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss.
3) Cognitive maintenance and rehabilitation with better hearing.
4) Cochlear Implants: Helping when hearing aids can't.
5) Ossicular Chain diseases and Ossiculoplasties.
6) Benefits of hearing aids for the treatment of Hearing Loss.
7) Achieving Best Speech & Language Outcomes with Hearing Aids and Hearing Implants through Auditory-        Verbal Therapy
8) Bone Conduction Hearing Device and Implants

This newsletter issue on Hypertension covers:

1) Comparison of the 2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guidelines and the Singapore 2017 CPG (Clinical Practice      Guidelines) on Hypertension.
2) How best to use anti-hypertensive drugs in the era of intensive BP lowering to achieve BP goal targets.
3) Different blood pressure parameters and their significance.
4) Non-pharmacological intervention to lower blood pressure.
5) Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation