diabetes Archives

21 April 2026

Malaysia

Corporate Benefit Schemes Can’t Override Doctors’ Clinical Decisions, Says MMA

MMA says corporate benefit schemes cannot interfere with doctors' clinical decisions, stressing there's a clear boundary between what's covered by employers and what's prescribed by doctors based on clinical needs. MMA urges MOH to issue clear guidance.

20 April 2026

Malaysia

Perodua Halts Popular Diabetes Injection Prescriptions For Staff

Perodua Manufacturing directs panel clinics to stop prescribing GLP-1 and GIP/GLP-1 shots for diabetes to staff, pending further evaluation, and to prescribe other oral hypoglycaemic drugs instead. GLP-1 and GIP/GLP-1 meds treat both diabetes and obesity.

11 March 2026

Malaysia

From Silent Disease To Systemic Risk: Why Kidney Health Matters More Than We Think

Chronic kidney disease is becoming one of Malaysia’s most pressing public health challenges, yet it often develops quietly and goes unnoticed until it reaches an advanced stage.

24 February 2026

Malaysia

New Survey Reveals Gaps In Diabetes Care Awareness

A new survey by Abbott, the global health care company, found that while nine out of 10 Malaysians living with diabetes regularly check their glucose levels, nearly 40 per cent do not recall their HbA1c levels.

6 February 2026

World

Probiotics For Cancer And Diabetes?

A growing body of research suggests the microbes living in our gut can shape whether certain cutting-edge immunotherapies succeed or fail, turning bacteria found in fermented foods and 'designer yoghurts' into unlikely players in the future of modern medicine.

16 December 2025

Letter

Resetting Malaysia’s Health Future: Making Diabetes Prevention National Policy — Dr Dicky Ng & Dr Chow Sze Loon

Malaysia should expand taxable SSB products to cover sweetened milk drinks, flavoured coffees, 3-in-1 beverages, energy drinks, and high-sugar syrups; adopt a tiered sugar tax; and ring-fence SSB revenue for prevention, including school health programmes.

14 November 2025

Malaysia

MMA: Drastic Action Needed As One In Five Malaysians Now Diabetic

The MMA remains committed to supporting policies and partnerships that focus on early prevention, accessible screening, and public education so that future generations are not burdened by a preventable disease.

3 October 2025

Malaysia

‘We Can’t Keep Building New Dialysis Centres’: Health Deputy DG

Health deputy DG Nor Azimi sounds the alarm on the unstoppable rise of kidney disease in Malaysia, saying public and private sectors can't keep building new dialysis centres. Peritoneal dialysis must be championed as the first-line treatment instead of HD.

22 September 2025

Malaysia

MOH Warns ‘Suku-Suku Separuh’ Risks Becoming ‘Privilege For The Few’

MOH admits that affordability remains a “major barrier” to eating Suku-Suku Separuh meals that risks becoming a “privilege for the few”, warning that the stretched public health care system cannot indefinitely absorb escalating costs of long-term NCD care.

17 September 2025

World

How AI-Based Eye Scans Can Detect High Blood Sugar, Heart Disease

Retinal scans, aided by artificial intelligence, may soon offer doctors a simple, non-invasive way to detect several medical conditions.

Tag: diabetes

Corporate Benefit Schemes Can’t Override Doctors’ Clinical Decisions, Says MMA

Perodua Halts Popular Diabetes Injection Prescriptions For Staff

From Silent Disease To Systemic Risk: Why Kidney Health Matters More Than We Think

New Survey Reveals Gaps In Diabetes Care Awareness

Probiotics For Cancer And Diabetes?

Resetting Malaysia’s Health Future: Making Diabetes Prevention National Policy — Dr Dicky Ng & Dr Chow Sze Loon

MMA: Drastic Action Needed As One In Five Malaysians Now Diabetic

‘We Can’t Keep Building New Dialysis Centres’: Health Deputy DG

MOH Warns ‘Suku-Suku Separuh’ Risks Becoming ‘Privilege For The Few’

How AI-Based Eye Scans Can Detect High Blood Sugar, Heart Disease

‘Zero Pending’, Zero Safety, Zero HCWs: The Burning Crisis At Queen Elizabeth Hospital — Health Worker

Nationalism Can Curb Doctor Brain Drain, Says KPPA

Malaysia Faces Emerging Shortage Of Dialysers, Haemodialysis Components

UMMC Denies Radiation Exposure Caused Staff Cancer ‘Cluster’

Fifty Years Of Negotiations Across The Table For The Betterment Of Doctors’ Rice Bowl — Dr Sng Kim Hock