How You Can Support Suicide Prevention September 8, 2023 Dr. In The House, Medical Ethics & Economics Attempted suicide has been decriminalised in Malaysia but the work does not end there. In conjunction with World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September), consultant urologist Dr George Lee is joined by Alia...
Japan Releases Fukushima Wastewater August 25, 2023 Dr. In The House, Medical Ethics & Economics In 2011, a major earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami which flooded the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing a major nuclear disaster. Efforts to decontaminate the...
What Happens When Cosmetic Surgery Goes Wrong August 11, 2023 Dr. In The House, Health & Aging It was recently reported that a 29-year-old woman had died following a breast enhancement surgery that had gone wrong. What was especially worrying was that the procedure was done by a beautician, rather than...
Life Expectancy vs Age – Which One Matters More? August 4, 2023 Dr. In The House, Health & Aging Age is not just a number when it comes to health choices. Your age is one of the main factors that determines the types of health screenings that you need and when to go for them. But at a time when we’re...
Aspartame A “Possible Carcinogen” – What Does This Mean? July 21, 2023 Cancers in Men & Women, Dr. In The House Aspartame, the world’s most popular artificial sweetener, has just been declared by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a “possible carcinogen”. Does this mean that aspartame...
The Bitter Truth About Artificial Sweeteners June 9, 2023 Dr. In The House, Health & Aging How many of you go to a mamak and order a kopi or teh ais kurang manis? Or maybe you’ve chosen to switch to artificial sweeteners instead. Malaysians have long been warned about the need to cut down on our...
Is COVID-19 Well And Truly Over? May 19, 2023 Dr. In The House, Health & Aging, Medical Innovations & Advancements In early May, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 is no longer considered a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC. Following the announcement, the Ministry of Health...
PrEP Prevents HIV : Must Be Accessible To All March 31, 2023 Dr. In The House, Medical Ethics & Economics, Medical Innovations & Advancements PrEP - or pre-exposure prophylaxis - can be life-saving, as it’s highly effective in preventing HIV when taken as prescribed. Recently, Deputy Health Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni said that the Ministry...
No Fun In Fungal Infections March 24, 2023 Dr. In The House, Health & Aging Will Ellie find out the truth about what Joel did? This is the cliffhanger question in the season finale of ‘The Last Of Us’, a TV series about a zombifying fungal infection that has destroyed...
What ChatGPT Means For Medicine and Research March 10, 2023 Dr. In The House, Medical Innovations & Advancements Healthcare providers rely on studies published in scientific journals to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in medical research. But what happens when the study wasn’t even written by a...
