13 January 2020 Malaysia MMA: GPs Should Get Flu Shot Supplies First Flu vaccines are given to public hospitals first, then private hospitals, while GPs get the leftovers.
10 January 2020 Malaysia Leukaemia Cases Drop Among Malaysian Youth Lymphoma is now the most common cancer in Malaysian men and women aged 15 to 24.
10 January 2020 Malaysia Hospitals Running Out Of Beds, Medicines Amid Flu Outbreak Two Influenza A incidents happened in Selangor on Wednesday, one of which affected 20 pupils in a Cyberjaya primary school.
10 January 2020 Malaysia Cancer Deaths Rise 30% Among Malaysians Malaysia reported 82,601 cancer deaths in 2012-2016, up 28.5% from 64,275 cases in 2007-2011.
10 January 2020 Malaysia Backlash Won’t Stop Zuraida’s Designated Smoking Areas Plan The housing and local government minister says her administration needs to facilitate the needs of the people, even those who light up.
10 January 2020 Malaysia Malaysia Reports Two More Polio Cases Both boys had not been previously vaccinated.
10 January 2020 Malaysia Designated Areas Unnecessary, Smoke ‘Anywhere Else’, Say Advocates Only 23 types of places have been gazetted as anti-smoking zones, so smokers can still light up at other unrestricted public areas.
9 January 2020 Malaysia Critical Allowance Stays For Government Doctors, Health Workers, Other Professionals This Year 90% of critical allowance recipients are from the health sector.
9 January 2020 Malaysia More Malaysian Women Getting Breast Cancer, Fewer Cervical In men, prostate cancer showed the highest increase of incidence from the 2007-2011 period to 2012-2016.
9 January 2020 Malaysia Abortion Pill Is WHO Essential Medicine, Malaysia Reminded The World Health Organization (WHO) also found the abortion pill did not require “close medical supervision”.