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Malaysia's response to doctor brain drain? "Be more patriotic." The MMA disagrees — and so do the 529 doctors who accepted housemanship out of 5,000 slots 🩺
Public Service DG Wan Ahmad Dahlan says doctor brain drain can be curbed if doctors have a "sense of nationalism to help the country", amid very low housemen intake. MMA says doctors leave because "the system and policy don't rec…
Malaysia's obesity crisis costs RM64 billion a year — and now KPJ Healthcare & Novo Nordisk are partnering to fix it with a structured hospital-based programme. 1 in 2 Malaysian adults is overweight. It's about time 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: KPJ Healthcare Bhd has partnered with Novo Nordisk Malaysia to help tackle the country's estimated RM64 billion obesity crisis with structured hospital care.
From 10 months down to 2 months — Malaysia slashes the wait for medical graduate placements in a long-overdue fix for new doctors entering the public system 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MOH) has reduced the waiting period for medical graduate placements to two months from an average of 10 months.
Free health screening in a Sarawak longhouse — and 40% of residents had high blood sugar. Silent diseases, invisible communities. Rural health inequity in Malaysia is a real crisis 🩺
SIBU (April 13): The outcome of a free health screening carried out at Rumah Luat in Kemuyang here on Sunday revealed some worrying health concerns. The community programme was organised by the Sibu Parliamentary Service Centre,…
Malaysia's medical insurance claims hit RM9.4 billion in 2025 — up 5.3%. Disability claims nearly doubled. Medical inflation is real and it's accelerating 📈
Disability benefits recorded the sharpest jump, rising 77.4% to RM157.9 million, according to the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia’s 2025 annual report.
90% of potential organ donations in Malaysia are rejected — by the patient’s own family. Misconceptions about brain death and cultural taboos are costing lives 💔
Misconceptions, family consent and cultural beliefs continue to limit donations, even as patients wait years for transplants.
Why do chronic wounds refuse to heal? Bacteria release lactic acid that effectively "switches off" the immune system — new research explains how simple infections turn into a persistent nightmare 🦠
⚠️ Malaysia's 55,000 dialysis patients face a growing risk — dialysers and haemodialysis components are in short supply due to the West Asia conflict disrupting petrochemical supply chains
Malaysia is facing an emerging shortage of dialysers (artificial kidney) and canister/bottle packaging for haemodialysis (HD) concentrate solution. A dialyser is necessary for HD. Nephrologists say kidney failure patients can't s…
At 98, Tun Dr Mahathir reveals he fractured his hip and suffered a head injury after suddenly losing control of his legs — spent months at IJN, still struggling to walk 🏥
SHAH ALAM, April 14 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has recounted the moment he fell during a walking exercise earlier this year, an incident that left him with...
Beyond chemo: Malaysia now offers stem cell transplants and CAR-T therapy for blood cancers — success rates up to 70% for relapsed patients 💉
A haematologist at Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City, says stem cell transplant can be curative in many instances, while CAR-T cell therapy is lifesaving in Refractory B cell lymphoma, B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and mul…
Beyond chemo: Malaysia now offers stem cell transplants and CAR-T therapy for blood cancers — success rates up to 70% for relapsed patients 💉
A haematologist at Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City, says stem cell transplant can be curative in many instances, while CAR-T cell therapy is lifesaving in Refractory B cell lymphoma, B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and mul…
From 10 months down to 2 months — Malaysia slashes the wait for medical graduate placements in a long-overdue fix for new doctors entering the public system 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MOH) has reduced the waiting period for medical graduate placements to two months from an average of 10 months.
G. Saravanan won gold for Malaysia in 1998. Now 56 and living with Motor Neuron Disease, he relies on a ventilator and feeding tube — and finally, the govt steps in 🏅
From 10 months down to 2 months — Malaysia slashes the wait for medical graduate placements in a long-overdue fix for new doctors entering the public system 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MOH) has reduced the waiting period for medical graduate placements to two months from an average of 10 months.
G. Saravanan won gold for Malaysia in 1998. Now 56 and living with Motor Neuron Disease, he relies on a ventilator and feeding tube — and finally, the govt steps in 🏅
70% of Malaysia's medicines are imported. Pharmacists say advance shortage reporting alone isn't enough — we need buffer stocks and local production now 💊
KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 — The move to require pharmaceutical companies to report potential medicine supply shortages at least six months in advance, starting July 1, has been...
Malaysia has a growing cancer burden but too few haematologists to cope. Demand is rising fast. Workforce planning is not. This gap will cost lives if ignored ⚠️
CKD is costing Malaysia RM3.3B a year, mostly on dialysis. Driven by diabetes and hypertension. Prevention is failing. We pay late instead of early. Fix primary care or costs will keep rising ⚠️
Healthcare spending on end-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Malaysia has risen sharply, reaching RM3.3 billion a year compared with RM572 million in 2010.
1 in 3 Malaysians now faces mental health challenges — Deputy Minister warns parents: the digital world poses real risks to children's wellbeing 🧠
SIBU (April 11): Parents should play a more proactive role in supporting their children’s development, particularly in navigating the increasingly complex digital landscape, said Deputy Minister of Public Health, Housing and Loca…