Home An Infection Called Listeriosis May 8, 2022   Return Words Lim Teck Choon Bad Bacteria The bacteria responsible for listeriosis is Listeria monocytogenes. People get infected by eating

Home What Determines Our Fertility? May 8, 2022   Return WORDS PANK JIT SIN Dr Eeson Sinthamoney President-Elect Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Malaysia (OGSM)   The most

Home Protect Them Against Pneumonia May 8, 2022   Return Words Hannah May-Lee Wong Datuk Dr Zulkifli Ismail Consultant Paediatrician & Paediatric Cardiologist   Dr Aminah Bee Mohd

Home When Chikungunya Rears Its Head May 8, 2022   Return WORDS MAK WEN YAO During the first few weeks of 2019, Thailand experienced a sustained increase in

Home Is Tb Making A Comeback? May 8, 2022   Return WORDS ABRAHAM MATHEW SAJI Every year March 24th is recognized as World TB Day to commemorate the

Home The Amalgam Dilemma May 8, 2022   Return Dr Andrew Chan Kieng Hock Consultant Oral Surgeon Private Dental Practice Klang, Selangor. The debate over the safety

Home Pew! Pew! Pew! Die, Lung Cancer, Die! May 8, 2022   Return WORDS PANK JIT SIN Dr Anand SachithanandanConsultant Cardiothoracic SurgeonPresident of Lung Cancer Network Malaysia Dr

Home THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT BREAST CANCER May 8, 2022   Return WORDS HANNAH MAY-LEE WONG According to the Malaysian National Cancer Registry Report (2012-2016), there has been

Home PNEUMONIA: STILL A THREAT IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 May 8, 2022   Return   WORDS LIM TECK CHOON   In a time when COVID-19 is still

Home Check, Please! May 2, 2022   Return Previous Next Falling sick can be very expensive these days. With the current economic slowdown coupled with rising healthcare

Home The Best Shots In Life: Give Yourself the Best Shot May 1, 2022   Return Dr Haji Hazlee Bin Abdul Hadi   Occupational Health Specialist & Medical Advisor, Prince

Home The Best Shots in Life : Health and Happiness Begin with You May 1, 2022   Return The key to personal happiness is health. Family, wealth,

Home The Best Shots in Life: Making Work “Work” May 1, 2022   Return Your work is piling and the deadline looms dangerously close. And then it

Home The Best Shots in Life So, ready for a shot? May 1, 2022   Return We hope this Mini Report have shown you that vaccinations are

Home Healthy Mouth, Healthy Me May 1, 2022   Return Dr Budi Aslinie Bt Md Sabri   Senior Lecturer, Centre of Population Oral Health & Clinical Prevention Studies, Faculty of Dentistry

Home Healing from Grief May 1, 2022   Return Vanitha Chandrasegaram   Dance Therapist & Counselor，Integrative Creative Moments “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” – Peter

Home Hold On, are you jabbed up? May 1, 2022   Return Ahoy there,travelers! Think you are ready for your next destination? Think again! Being in a

Home Bracing Yourself for the Braces May 1, 2022   Return Previous Next Dr Aida Nur Ashikin bt Abd Rahman   Orthodontist & Senior Orthodontic Lecturer, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Teknologi

Home Going Dry May 1, 2022   Return Dr Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin   Associate Professor & Consultant Psychiatrist, University Malaya Medical Centre & UM Specialist Centre Dr Amer Siddiq

Home Stay Sharp! May 1, 2022   Return Much has been said about the importance of regular exercise, and rightfully so, as we are becoming a “heavier”

Home 1-2-3-4 Steps to Blood Pressure Control April 29, 2022   Return Dr Ramasami Nandakumar Consultant Interventional Cardiologist   High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is

Home “You want to stick a tube up my … where?” April 29, 2022   Return Dr Shanthi Palaniappan   Consultant Gastroenterologist Just mention ‘colonoscopy’ and many people will

Home Flu is Here? #HopeIDontGetSickAgain April 29, 2022   Return Know your enemy Have you ever wondered why it is so easy for us to keep getting

Home Zooming on Zika April 29, 2022   Return In Brazil, the country hit hardest by the Zika, distraught mothers queued outside infant wards, the line spilling

Home ‘Safe Than Sorry’ April 29, 2022   Return Last August, we were suddenly bombarded with news reports of a typhoid fever outbreak in Malaysia. Later that

Home The Anti-Cancer Factor April 29, 2022   Return Professor Dr Ammu K Radhakrishnan   Professor of Pathology (Immunology), International Medical University “My friends always tell me, ‘Oh, there you

Home I mQUITting… How about You? April 29, 2022   Return Previous Next Assoc Prof Dr Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin   Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Malaya “Smoking cessation is something

Home Vaccines under Fire April 28, 2022   Return Datuk Dr Zulkifli Ismail   Consultant Paediatrician & Paediatric Cardiologist One of Datuk Dr Zulkifli’s closest childhood friends, Johanuddin, contracted polio

Home The Brain Matters April 28, 2022   Return Nothing can be more heart-aching than having to witness a loved one gradually lose themselves, forgetting things they

Home Don’t Be Spineless! April 28, 2022   Return We often refer to the most important component of something as the ‘backbone’ – the key element that

Home Dengue & You: In Dengue’s Shadow April 29, 2022   Return Dato’ Dr Musa Mohd Nordin   Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist, Clinical Professor of Paediatrics According to Dato’ Dr

Home Dengue & You: It’s Time to Take Action! April 28, 2022   Return Previous Next Professor Datin Dr Chia Yook Chin   Professor and Senior Consultant, Department of Primary

Home Keep Dengue Away from Your Loved Ones April 28, 2022   Return Previous Next The Aedes aegypti mosquito lays its eggs in clear, fresh water. Any

Home The Unexpected Flu Car-rier April 28, 2022   Return Anyone who has had the flu will agree just how awful it is. Nursing a sore throat,

Home Let’s Do Something Amazing: Why You Should Quit April 28, 2022   Return Previous Next Associate Professor Dr Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin   Consultant Psychiatrist and Smoking Cessation

Home Let’s Do Something Amazing: With Will & Power, Comes Determination April 28, 2022   Return Despite his age, Mr Ithnin looks strong and able. You can

Home Let’s Do Something Amazing: Determined & Unswayed April 28, 2022   Return The moment Mun walked into the Café, all pretty in a black floral print

Home Let’s Do Something Amazing: The Ups & Downs of Quitting April 28, 2022   Return Nicotine in cigarettes (and other forms of tobacco) is addictive, and

Home Let’s Do Something Amazing: 5 Ways to Manage Your Craving April 28, 2022   Return So, what’s your goal? Whether you are quitting on your own

Home A Face/ Off with Meningococcal Disease April 28, 2022   Return Meningococcal disease strikes an estimated 1.2 million people each year – and out of these

Home From Throat to Ear April 28, 2022   Return Our head and throat are comparable to a close-knit neighbourhood. The throat and the ears share the

Home Start By Doing Something Amazing April 28, 2022   Return From L-R: Dr Annathurai Ranganathan (Head of Corporate Social Responsibility Unit, Asian Football Confederation), Assoc. Prof

Home Is Your Heart Failing? April 28, 2022   Return Professor John McMurray   British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, UK How do you end up with

Home It’s (Not) All in the Genes… April 28, 2022   Return “It’s all in the genes!” You may have heard your parents proudly say when you

Home What are Your Screening Options? April 28, 2022   Return Raising a child that suffers from an inheritable disorder (either a genetic or chromosomal disorder) can

Home Are We Only Our Genes? April 28, 2022   Return We have shared with you a close look into how genetic screening can be used to

Home Our Brains are at Risk! April 28, 2022   Return What exactly is Japanese encephalitis? Encephalitis is a condition, in which the brain becomes inflamed due

Home Keeping JE Out of Our Lives April 28, 2022   Return Keep Mosquitoes Out! When there is a reported outbreak of Japanese encephalitis (JE) in your

Home A Shot against Japanese Encephalitis April 28, 2022   Return What is this vaccine? There are several types of JE vaccines, and just like most vaccines,

Home T2DM & You April 28, 2022   Return Dr Hew Fen Lee Consultant Endocrinologist You have surely heard of diabetes in the past, but after being

Home You Can Do It! April 28, 2022   Return Your mind may be reeling from the diagnosis that you have diabetes. The changes you need to

Home Understanding Your Oral Medications April 28, 2022   Return Previous Next Prof Dr Norlaila Mustafa   Consultant Endocrinologist, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Specialist Centre. According to Prof Dr Norlaila Mustafa,

Home Eat, Move, Stay Healthy April 28, 2022   Return “The typical response from people when I tell them I’m diabetic is, ‘Oh, I’m sorry to hear

Home The Right Check April 28, 2022   Return You may be eating and exercising according to your healthcare team’s recommendations while faithfully taking your medications. But

Home Stop It From Striking You! Hard! April 28, 2022   Return troke strikes its victims swiftly and mercilessly, leaving survivors in debilitating conditions to recover from.

Home Let’s Be Fracture-proof April 28, 2022   Return So, how exactly does a bone fracture occur? A bone fracture happens when part of the bone is

Home Don’t Sweat It April 28, 2022   Return Do you sweat so much and so frequently that it makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed? Excessive sweating is

Home Enable The Disabled Understanding Down Syndrome April 28, 2022   Return WORDS ABRAHAM MATHEW SAJI There are seven- and-a-half billion people in the world – with differing

Home I Can’t Move Or Talk, But I Can Still Think, Dream And Hope  April 27, 2022   Return Fans of SpongeBob SquarePants, the animated series that captured the hearts

Home Cancer: Are You Aware?  April 27, 2022   Return WORDS PANK JIT SIN World Cancer Day 2019 is celebrated on 4th February every year and many activities

Home Is 8 Hours of Sleep Enough?  April 27, 2022   Return WORDS PANK JIT SIN Dr David R. Samson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology University of

Home Watch Out For Fake Dentistry April 25, 2022   Return Dr Andrew Chan Kieng Hock Consultant Oral Surgeon Private Dental Practice Klang, Selangor Fake braces done

Home USING VIRUSES TO IMPROVE OUR GUT MICROBIOTA July 01, 2020   Return Our digestive tract contains tens of trillions of microorganisms, comprising the gut microbiota. It

Home Toothbrushes: Manual Or Electric? March 19, 2020   Return WORDS PANK JIT SIN If you are like everyone else who practices good dental hygiene, you’ve probably

Home A Fascinating Story Of Vaping, Popcorns & Lung Troubles March 19, 2020   Return WORDS LIM TECK CHOO In 2019, many news outlets featured the story of