15 March 2022 Malaysia MOH Moots Harsher Punishments, Heavy-Handed Enforcement For Medicine Offences The Poisons amendment Bill 2022 raises general penalties to up to 5 years’ jail or max RM50,000 fine, besides protecting pharmacy enforcement officers from lawsuits.
10 December 2021 Malaysia Khairy: No Need For Law Change To Register Medical Cannabis Cannabis-containing products that are proven to be safe and effective for medical treatment can be registered and marketed in Malaysia.
23 July 2021 Malaysia Frontier Biotechnologies’ First Long-Acting Injectable For HIV Proves Safe And Effective The TALENT study findings showed that a two-drug regimen was as effective and safe as multi-drug therapies.
17 June 2020 Letter Mental Health And Substance Abuse In Malaysia — Dr Dhanaventhan Raman If we continue to treat psychiatric patients in large institutions, we will regress to a point when psychiatry was in its primitive times.
13 February 2020 Letter Rethinking Drug Policy: Why The ‘Just Say No Campaign’ Is Failing — Samantha Chong Drug prevention programmes should focus on enhancing the decision-making ability for a healthier lifestyle while providing active social support.
14 October 2019 Malaysia Distributor Taking Over Drug Maker Lilly’s Malaysia Operations Prices of medicines by the insulin injection manufacturer are expected to rise.
11 October 2019 Malaysia Budget 2020: RM500Mil Drug Pool Procurement Across Ministries Local medical device manufacturers are encouraged to upgrade equipment in public facilities.
10 October 2019 Malaysia Pharma: Increase MOH Budget For Medicines To 10pc The Pharmaceutical Association of Malaysia (Phama) also requested tax incentives for quit-smoking services by private facilities.
9 September 2019 Malaysia Guan Eng: Putrajaya Reviewing RM1bil Pharmaniaga Medicine ‘Monopoly’ Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng says the monopoly is costing the government over RM1.1 billion yearly.
3 September 2019 Malaysia Psychiatrist: Don’t Jail Drug Users Or Force Them Into Rehab Most Cure & Care centres don't provide proper treatment to drug users as they still do cold turkey.