Malaysian Medical Resources
13,946 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
PUTRAJAYA, April 4 — The Occupational Safety and Health (Amendment) Act 2022 (Act A1648) and the Factories and Machinery (Repeal) Act 2022 (Act 835), along with two pieces of...
PUTRAJAYA, April 6 — The implementation of natural products based on the Guideline on Natural Products with Modern Claim has been approved to strengthen the regulatory system for...
After MMA, Hartal Doktor Kontrak and the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia also support Dr Dzul's plan to amend the Medical Act to reform the "opaque" Malaysian Medical Council and unify specialist training from parallel pathway an…
PETALING JAYA: Dr Lu Yeow Yuen completed his compulsory housemanship at the Sarawak General Hospital and then went abroad to qualify as a neurosurgeon.
Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz says the president and at least 80% of the council should be elected, not appointed.
THE disposal of Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Sdn Bhd (RSDH) to Columbia Asia Healthcare Sdn Bhd for RM5.7 billion cash late last year has set a new benchmark for the valuation of private hospital operators in Malaysia while gene…
Dr Dzul says MOH has proposed an amendment to the Medical Act to resolve an imbroglio with MMC over parallel pathway training. The health minister wants the amendment, awaiting Cabinet approval, to be tabled in June. MMC regulate…
One year after then-Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa delisted liquid nicotine, Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak says the tragic situation has yet to be curbed, with red herrings instead like the Control of Smoking Products for Public…
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry (MOH) has confirmed the health supplement “Beni Koji Choleste Help,“ which contains red yeast rice (RYR), manufactured ...
Dr April Camilla Roslani is reported to have been relieved of her duties in March.
Six USM graduates in pathology (medical genetics) are pursuing a judicial review against MMC’s rejection of their NSR specialist registration applications. Even though the USM programme received MQA accreditation, MMC did not rec…
The corporatised medical regulator is making decisions which appear to be contradictory to the path taken by the health ministry on recognition of specialist programmes.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh says this goes against the principle of partnership and work done over two decades at the request of the health ministry.
As of last Jan 31, only 143 of 400 house officer positions allocated by MOH to UMMC were filled, leaving 257 spots (64%) vacant in the university hospital. Higher Education Minister Zambry says UMMC needs at least 276 to 345 hous…
All Form 1 girls in 2022 and 2023 cohorts in Malaysia missed HPV vaccination due to vaccine shortages. Only 52% of 2021 cohort completed HPV vax. MOH says 50,000 HPV vaccine doses received in Jan 2024 will be prioritised for unva…
KOTA SAMARAHAN, March 30 — Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg today said the health cluster here will be further strengthened with the green light given by the federal...
MOH describes its moratorium on new clinical research centres (CRCs) as a "proactive step" to bolster research capacity. MOH says not every hospital hosting a CRC is equipped for extensive clinical trials, hence a moratorium opti…
But there is a better indicator: recruitment. Between 2019 and last year, the Health Ministry recruited 9,822 of them and plans to take in 6,000 more this year and the next. But as the inflow increases, so does the outflow.
Then-DG Hisham said in 2022 the RCSEd cardiothoracic surgery parallel pathway was co-organised by MOH. "It's quality assured to international standards by RCSEd". He said in 2014 the parallel pathway would halve the time to produ…
KOTA BHARU: A two-month-old baby boy has died due to pertussis (whooping cough) in Kelantan.
GEORGE TOWN, March 27 — The National Poison Centre (NPC) of Universiti Sains Malaysia has recorded a five-fold increase in poisoning cases due to electronic cigarettes...
Dr Dzul plans for a national EMR system covering both public and private health care facilities that enables precision medicine, and also precision public health from big data analytics. Selayang Hospital will be the first hospit…
Arthritis Foundation Malaysia and Psoriasis Association of Malaysia back MOH's proposal for a national health insurance scheme, saying this will boost access to expensive biologics that cost RM20,000-RM50,000 annually. Targeted t…
The Malaysian Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Selangor says its Van Mesra project, with funding assistance from the state government, provides TB patients with transport to health clinics at no cost, improving the…