Amelia Wong is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on consumer technology, digital wellness, health-related tools, calculators, and practical lifestyle explainers. Articles under this byline help readers understand everyday data, online tools, and wellness-related information without replacing professional advice.

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Health & Wellness

CDC's Flu Forecast Beat Every Model Last Season. This Season a Google Model Beat It.

In the 2025–26 ranking of US flu hospital-admission forecasts, Google's entry came first of 39 and CDC's combined forecast seventh, which missed most at the December peak.

2 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

The FDA Approved a Heart Valve That Doctors Can Widen as a Child Grows

The Autus device starts at about 13 mm and is stretched with a balloon catheter to as much as 22 mm, sparing some repeat open-heart operations. Its long-term record is still being gathered.

2 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

Infections Caused 2.3 Million Cancers in 2024, and a Larger Share in Southeast Asia

An IARC analysis in The Lancet Oncology attributes one in eight new tumours worldwide to infectious agents. In the region, Epstein-Barr virus drives nasopharyngeal cancer.

1 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Diners at tables in front of a brightly lit food stall with a menu board of dishes
Home & Living

Singlish and Manglish words in the Oxford English Dictionary

Which Singapore and Malaysian English words the OED has recorded and when: 21 Singapore entries in 2016 and a second wave in 2025 and 2026, where the words were borrowed from, what one scholar says about the particles, and how the tags split.

1 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
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Health & Wellness

Transplant Patients Who Ate More Sweets on Antibiotics Lost More Gut Bacteria

A Nature study of 9,419 hospital meals linked sugar during antibiotic treatment to bigger blooms of Enterococcus. Mouse tests agreed; the authors say trials are needed before advice changes.

1 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

The First Approved Drug for MCT8 Deficiency Treats the Body's Excess Hormone, Not the Brain

The FDA approved Egetis's Emcitate (tiratricol) on 28 September. It lowers the thyroid hormone that builds up in the blood; the label makes no claim on the disease's neurological effects.

30 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A woman sitting on a living-room floor packing clothes into an open suitcase
Home & Living

Public holidays 2027 and the best days to take leave in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong

The 2027 public holidays in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, the longest breaks a few days of leave can buy in each, what a Saturday holiday gives you, and why Malaysia's calendar changes from state to state. 請假攻略 and cuti umum 2027 in one place.

30 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
Singapore housing blocks with block numbers 639 and 641 painted near their tops
Home & Living

How Singapore postcodes work, from the sector to the block number

The first two digits of a Singapore postcode are the postal sector, which maps to one of 28 districts; for an HDB flat the last three are usually the block number, as they were for 400 of the 404 blocks we sampled. How the six digits are built, and what a sector cannot tell you.

30 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Health & Wellness

A Drug Aimed at a Weak Point in Some Cancers Shrank Tumours in 7 of 66 Patients

The first WRN inhibitor tested in people was tolerable and controlled disease in 74% of patients whose MSI cancers had mostly already been treated with immunotherapy.

30 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

A Chinese GLP-1 Pill Taken Without Fasting Cut Blood Sugar in a Phase 3 Trial

Hengrui's safiglipron lowered HbA1c by up to 1.45 points against placebo in 284 people with early type 2 diabetes. The results are in Nature Medicine.

30 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
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