16 November 2023
AstraZeneca and the Lung Cancer Network Malaysia collaborate to offer free AI-powered lung screening and expert consultations.
Tag: health screening
10 November 2023
Selangor's Budget 2024, which allocates RM59.7 million for public health, proposes a new hospitalisation benefit for Iltizam Selangor Sihat (ISS) recipients, up to RM10,000 annually at selected panel hospitals. ISS has been allocated RM35 million for next year.
30 October 2023
Selangor Public Health & Environment Exco Jamaliah Jamaluddin cites time constraints and transportation issues as two main reasons Selangor residents skip their follow-ups, even when their Selangor Saring test results reveal abnormalities.
19 April 2023
NCSM repurposed tactics from its Covid vaccination campaign by getting beauty salons and barber shops to educate their customers about cancer. Risk reduction strategies, says NCSM, must be in youth and sports, schools and communities, not with clinicians.
15 December 2022
MMA says including private GPs in NCD prevention and management will help spread patients out across clinics. Dr Milton Lum tells MPs to push Peka B40 screenings in their service centres.
13 December 2022
Through holistic health screening solutions, both parties hope to boost personalised preventive health care and thereby address this growing concern.
8 December 2022
Viatris and MMA jointly launch a campaign to screen above-40s for diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol in participating GP clinics.
18 November 2022
Howard Lee says elected reps need to drive public health campaigns as community leaders, citing Kinta Valley in Perak that saw high participation in the Peka B40 health screening programme.
13 November 2022
Khairy Jamaluddin urges people not to be afraid of health screenings, saying prevention is better than late treatment.
8 October 2022
MOH’s allocation of services and supplies for psychiatry and mental health were cut by RM580,000, while the health education budget suffered a 15% cut (RM9 mil). Peka B40 lost RM5 mil.