Bahagian Amalan dan Perkembangan Farmasi (BAPF), KKM x The Malaysian Medical Gazette Series Anticoagulants (often referred to as blood thinners) keep blood clots from forming in the blood vessels and may prevent existing clots from enlarging. It has been shown…
The oral route is the most common route for drug administration. Medications in the form of tablets, capsules, and syrup are preferred due to their advantages, such as non-invasiveness, cost-effectiveness, stability, and convenience. Problems arise when some patients find these…
‘My dad used to be an active and cheerful person, however for the past 1 year he did not want to talk much, prefers to be alone in his room. It is heartbreaking to look at him in this way.’…
Kepatuhan pada ubat-ubatan adalah penting bagi memastikan pesakit mendapat kesan teraputik ubat yang optimum, mengurangkan kesan sampingan dan meningkatkan kualiti kesihatan bagi jangka masa panjang. Namun begitu, kajian menunjukkan bahawa lebih 50% pesakit diabetes yang dirawat di klinik-klinik kesihatan seluruh…
One of the major roles of a health clinic pharmacist is to dispense a valid prescription from the doctor to the patient. Patients can get their medicines, as early as 8am at all government health clinic pharmacies in Malaysia. Every…
The gap between medical facts and public perception is nothing short of amazing. For instance when I tell some patients, “Careful with your diet, your cholesterol levels will soon be off the charts.” The best reply would be, “Alright, alright.…
Pop into any pharmacy and walk over to the shelf where they keep the cough syrups. You will notice that there are so many brands of cough medicines, each claiming to be better than the others. You may even be…
We’ve seen it in movies, in TV shows. We’ve read about it in books and novels. We’ve even heard of it happening to a friend of a friend or even somebody close to us. Poison and the act of poisoning…
Ask any parent and they will tell you that there’s not much worse than a small child having the flu. A blocked nose invariably makes the child irritable as it affects their sleep and their ability to breathe with ease.…
You have a sore throat and your nose is running like a KL marathon. You drag yourself to your nearby GP and after seeing the doctor, you open the white plastic bag to find that the friendly doctor that attended…