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Mental health and awareness: Law allows forced hospitalisation | New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: People suffering from severe mental illness, after a comprehensive psychological screening, can be placed under forced hospitalisation, even if it is against their will or the wishes of their families and relatives.
'Smoking ban should cover workplaces, but with designated smoking areas'
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Great Eastern exempt from foreign ownership ruling after pledging RM2 bil to B40 health scheme
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng says the contribution will benefit more people than a reduction in the foreign ownership of Singaporean insurance giant.
What happens when an average Malaysian learns to live healthy | Malay Mail
PETALING JAYA, Jan 12 — Zaliha Abdul Rahim is your average homemaker in Malaysia. The 57-year-old cooks and spends time with her children daily while balancing household chores such as grocery shopping and cleaning the house. The…
New Guidance on CPD from the MMC
KKM akan bertindak terhadap salun kecantikan gigi haram
Man apologises to deputy minister over smoking ban tirade
Smoker was seen in a viral video lighting up and hurling insults at Dr Lee Boon Chye.
T-Home, a safe place that helps older Malaysian transwomen https://sg.news.yahoo.com/t-home-safe-place-helps-232447760.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw via @yahoosg
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 ― From the outside, T-Home looks like any other of the single-storey bungalows you would find in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. But it holds special significance for a number of older...
Pantai Hospital Penang offers free health screening for Grab drivers - The Edge Markets
GEORGE TOWN (Jan 11): Pantai Hospital Penang (PHP), in collaboration with GrabCar, is offering free annual health screening to all Grab driver-partners across Malaysia. Its CEO, Pan Wen Lek said that the health screening consists…
Govt to Work on Sex Education Syllabus After Stats Show Students as Young as 13 Are 'Active'
Women, Family and Community Development Deputy Minister Hannah Yeoh broke the news today (11 Jan) that a sex education syllabus is in the works after statistics show that sexual activity amongst students is on the rise. "It is al…
Saving our drugs from antibiotic resistance
The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance means that more and more germs will be able to resist the killing power of antibiotic drugs, leaving us without a cure for common infections.
Attention doctors, please don't get so easily conned
In 2019, Health Ministry resolves to cut smoking, hypertension, obesity and more | Malay Mail
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 11 — The Health Ministry has made reducing non-communicable diseases (NCD) in the country its 2019 resolution as it seeks to keep Malaysia’s fitness levels from sliding further compared to regional peers. Datuk Ser…
Extra 100 Kota Belud hospital parking lots
KOTA BELUD: The hospital here kicked off its new year by unveiling the newly established parking lot named “Parking Muhibbah 2019” which is now available to the public.
Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) to become a corporate entity next year
PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) is expected to become a corporate entity next year, said Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham A...
An outlook on the Malaysian healthcare scene for 2019
Economic uncertainties and budgetary constraints in the coming year do not bode well for Malaysian healthcare, opines our columnist.
Unwed Malaysian teens are having more sex but fewer babies?
Secrecy mars accurate data collection, but the poor seem to be most at risk of unplanned pregnancies
Delays in issuance of Annual Practising Certificates to be resolved by February
PETALING JAYA: Physicians who have applied for their Annual Practising Certificate (APC) will receive the document latest by February, said Health Dir...
Contractor jailed for slapping doctor at Ampang Hospital | Malay Mail
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — A contractor was sentenced to a month’s jail by the Ampang magistrate’s Court here today for slapping a woman doctor on the arm at the Emergency and Trauma Department of Ampang Hospital last Sunday. Magistra…
Be innovative, health minister tells businesses hurt by smoking ban | Malay Mail
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 9 — Restaurants should come up with creative ideas to stem declining business caused by the government’s smoking ban, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad said today. He claimed that the Pakatan Harapan (PH)…
Sabah smoking ban starts on Feb 1
Govt will not backtrack on smoking ban, says health minister
Don’t just choose the cheapest drugs, pharmaceutical group tells Putrajaya | Malay Mail
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 9 — A pharmaceutical group has urged the government to look at other factors like clinical needs in the procurement of medicines, instead of focusing solely on price. The Pharmaceutical Association of Malaysia (PhA…