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Malaysia & Singapore ink a health MOU — aligned Nutri-Grade food labels, cross-border referrals to Johor private hospitals, and Medisave coverage in the works. Bilateral healthcare diplomacy getting serious 🤝
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…
Papaya Leaves, platelets and Dengue - the important truth.
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Sabah is drafting major public health law reforms: PHO amendments, adopting Act 371, and a proposed State Health Council. Significant moves for East Malaysian healthcare governance. 📋
KOTA KINABALU (May 21): The Sabah government is refining several major healthcare sector reforms, including proposed amendments to the Public Health Ordinance (PHO), the adoption of the Registration of Pharmacists Act 1951 (Act 3…
PM Anwar praises Sultan Idris Shah Hospital (formerly Serdang) — 9,483 cardiac angiograms and 6,486 stent procedures in 2025, handling 60 heart patients daily including emergencies round the clock. ❤️
KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today congratulated the staff of Sultan Idris Shah Hospital (HSIS), particularly the Heart Centre team, for their...
Influenza vaccination rates among high-risk Malaysian adults are alarmingly low. Experts urge seniors, diabetics and heart patients to get jabbed before the mid-year flu season kicks in. 💉
Experts urge high-risk adults to get their influenza shots at private and public health care facilities ahead of the mid-year influenza season.
High Court halts Malaysia's drug price display enforcement for private clinics, pending judicial review. Private doctors score a legal win after challenging the rule in effect since May 2025. ⚖️
Private medical practitioners scored a victory today when the High Court granted them a stay of enforcement of a drug price display order that came into effect over a year ago on May 1, 2025, pending the full disposal of their ju…
Malaysia's new hospital pricing system (DRG) will classify patients by severity — not insurer fee ranges. ProtectHealth says it'll cover most disease groups under the Base MHIT plan. 🏥
ProtectHealth says its DRG price guide will use severity levels to set target fees for inpatient cases under Base MHIT, not broad procedure cost ranges published by the insurance industry. The DRG framework is designed to cover m…
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Prof Raja Affendi warns IBD in Malaysia is no longer rare or just urban. National incidence has nearly doubled over the past decade, with more rural and semi-urban cases too. Access to GI care is going to matter more. 🧠
IBD is no longer a rare "Western" disease because Malaysia's national IBD incidence has nearly doubled over the past decade. We are now seeing rising IBD cases in rural and semi-urban areas, beyond urban centres and specific gene…
Selangor wants Selgate to do double duty: expand private hospital capacity and recycle profits into ISS, Selangor Saring and other state health programmes. A state-level health financing experiment worth watching. 🏥
RAWANG, May 22 — The construction of a network of hospitals under the Selgate Healthcare (SELGATE) group is a creative strategy based on ‘entrepreneur state’ to strengthen an...
IHH Healthcare brought Malaysia's LungShield to the World Health Assembly — screening 10,000 traffic police for occupational lung disease using a public-private model 🫁
The WHA participation highlights Malaysia’s public-private partnership model for early detection and occupational lung health.
MMC bans fee-splitting: doctors can no longer be pressured by hospitals or insurers to cut their fees as a condition for patient referrals. MMA now wants MOH, BNM, and MyCC to enforce it 💊
MMC has banned fee-splitting practices involving specialists or GPs by arrangements between private hospitals and ITOs or TPAs, amid payers squeezing providers for discounts that force doctors to cut their professional fees to st…
Malaysia's Health Ministry is expanding the scope of treatments at private clinics to empower GPs — more care closer to home, less crowding in hospitals 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MoH) plans to expand the scope of treatments at private clinics as part of measures to improve existing policies to empower general practitioners (GP).
Malaysia's Health Ministry is expanding the scope of treatments at private clinics to empower GPs — more care closer to home, less crowding in hospitals 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MoH) plans to expand the scope of treatments at private clinics as part of measures to improve existing policies to empower general practitioners (GP).
KPJ says Selangor just did Asia Pacific’s first spinal procedure using minimally invasive cement screws. Private hospitals are still where a lot of procedural innovation gets branded first. 🦴
The minimally invasive procedure reduces tissue disruption and allows quicker recovery compared with conventional open spine operations.
Patient leaflets, clinic info, appointment links, videos, PDFs. All inside one virtual contact card. Share by QR. Update anytime. Never run out of print eg Dengue FAQ in whatever language! Live eg:
UK training policy changes DON'T invalidate your Malaysian medical degree. NUMed's Newcastle University hits back at claims Britain "killed Malaysia's international student dreams" — NUMed grads can still apply for UK postgrad training 🎓
Interpreting a workforce allocation policy as a reflection of educational quality conflates two entirely separate issues.
Malaysia's AI lung screening at public clinics has found 724 lung nodules and 73 high-risk cancer cases among 9,174 patients — 26.9% had abnormal chest X-rays. Catching cancer early at the community level 🫁
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…
Malaysia targets 902 public health clinics with integrated lung care by end of 2026 — TB, COPD, lung cancer screening, asthma and AI chest X-ray under one roof. Respiratory health just got a serious upgrade 🫁
Malaysia & Singapore ink a health MOU — aligned Nutri-Grade food labels, cross-border referrals to Johor private hospitals, and Medisave coverage in the works. Bilateral healthcare diplomacy getting serious 🤝
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…
Malaysian private healthcare doesn’t just sell treatment anymore — it increasingly sells speed, reassurance, and escape from public-sector friction. Useful provocation if you’re thinking about why costs keep climbing. 🏥
Malaysian private health care increasingly sells reassurance, status, speed, and separation from public-sector discomfort, while speaking the language of health. The result is not merely rising costs. It is the gradual commercial…
Malaysia-Singapore health ties are getting more operational: NCDs, Nutri-Grade labelling, medtech, and medical tourism in one MOU. Cross-border policy alignment matters more than another photo-op. 🤝
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…
A dengue patient got a Chinese-language monitoring card at a KL clinic. Perkasa objected. Health literacy advocates fired back: diseases don't recognise race — multilingual health info saves lives. Malaysia's hospitals walk a political tightrope 🏥
A contributor who was directly involved in the National Health Literacy Policy drafted by MOH and WHO defends the use of Chinese-language clinic appointment cards to ensure continuity of care. Diseases don't recognise race, relig…
43 Malaysian babies under 5 months died of whooping cough in 2023. MOH's free Tdap jab in pregnancy cuts that risk by up to 93%. Doctors are urging all pregnant mums to get vaccinated — it protects baby from birth 💉
Tdap vaccine has been proven to be safe for both mother and baby, and is widely used around the world, showing no increased risk to pregnancies.