Big data and precision public health are terms that are now integral to our daily lives, but what do they mean? Big data is often described using the 4Vs – Volume, Velocity, Veracity and Variety. What makes big data…
Humans are highly social beings. Our ability to communicate, form large societies through ideologies and be immensely interconnected has been postulated to be our greatest advantage in amassing Nature’s gifts. Hence, it is not surprising that our mental health and…
World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April every year to commemorate the founding anniversary of the World Health Organization. The theme for this year’s campaign is depression. Depression is a common but serious mental disorder with potentially severe symptoms…
In about 2 weeks the whole world would be celebrating World Mental Health Day on October 10th. The World Federation for Mental Health initiated its first celebration in 1992 and has been an ongoing event ever since. It is an event…
The recent National Morbidity Health Survey 2015 (NMHS2015) found that nearly 30% of Malaysians suffer from a mental health condition. Meaning that in Malaysia nearly 9 million people are walking the streets with conditions such as attention deficit hyperactive disorder,…
A middle aged women came to the Emergency Department at 1 am in the morning, 2 days after she was hit by a reversing car. She was at the passenger site, not wearing the seatbelt, couldn’t really describe how she…
We are living in very challenging times for healthcare in our society. As I have said before, new vector-borne diseases have emerged and reemerged, which require the collective effort of everyone in the society to overcome. The Government, through the…
The Health Ministry today clarified that the 24-year-old student from Zimbabwe is not suffering from the Ebola virus disease (EVD) and that there are no such reported cases in the country to date. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah…
The Ministry of Health will like to address the issue of phthalates, a carcinogenic chemical detected in the Loom Band and its subsequent withdrawal by one of the toy retailers in Britain. It is known that phthalates are substances added…
In recent decades, we have seen a dramatic shift in public health nutrition perception and policies. This is in tandem with the evolving of the healthcare industry which is currently experiencing a period of unprecedented change to address the many…