Malaysian Medical Resources
14,273 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
JANUARY 31 — The government just launched two huge health care schemes for the poor: a RM2 billion health insurance funded by an insurance company and a RM100 million health screening programme. But the mySalam critical illness i…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 ― General practitioners have refused to join the Health Ministry’s (MOH) health screening programme for the poor because the rate offered by the government is too low. Federation of Private Medical Practition…
LETTER | Emergency Medicine should be a compulsory posting for all house-officers rather than an elective posting it currently is.
The High Court however refused to issue a stay order on the ban.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) launched today a programme to counter non-communicable diseases (NCDs), where the poor will get free health screenings,...
PUTRAJAYA: The Peduli Kesihatan scheme for B40 (PeKa B40) health protection plan will be implemented in stages starting March, says Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.
KUALA LUMPUR: While most operators and patrons of eateries are abiding by the Health Ministry’s no-smoking ruling that came into effect on Jan 1, there is still confusion over the three-metre-radius within which smoking is prohib…
Contrary to what is being claimed, female circumcision isn’t required under Islam.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 — Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar today said that harm reduction programme should take more precedence over punitive measures against drug abusers. The PKR lawmaker said harm reduction programmes are more…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 — Roughly seven out of 10 retailers are participants of incentive programmes offered by tobacco companies as part of the latter’s promotional tactics and to boost cigarettes sales, a survey released yesterday…
Cancer elicits a cascade of events, thoughts and emotions which are often insufficiently addressed.
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 25): The Finance Ministry's newly-launched mySalam B40 national protection scheme will help plug the protection gap to ensure a higher proportion of the population is financially insured against the event of a h…
KUCHING, Jan 24 ― The Health Ministry and Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (JPBN) will finetune ways to address the rabies epidemic in the state, says Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye. He said it was time that a new a…
PETALING JAYA, Jan 24 — Malaysia is on its way to becoming an ageing nation as life expectancy increases and fertility rates fall. In a study published by Universiti Malaya’s Social Wellbeing Research Centre last year, our countr…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 — Heart disease has remained the leading cause of death among Malaysians for 13 years from 2005 to 2017, Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye said. However, he said it was the non-communicable diseases, su…
KUCHING: The smoking ban at eateries in Sarawak will come into play on March 1. The Sarawak Cabinet today has agreed to implement smoking ban at all eateries in the state, according to a press stat…
Dr D Michael Jeyakumar says MySalam will drive both patients and specialists to private healthcare.
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 24 — Putrajaya’s health insurance scheme for the bottom 40 per cent of workers is expected to offer coverage for at least five years, Lim Guan Eng announced today. The finance minister said the mySalam scheme, to w…
The Malaysian Ministry of Health reports there is much anti-vaccine propaganda on social media, which is influencing the public to reject life-saving vaccinations based on bad information. The Ministry of Health monitoring found…