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KUALA LUMPUR: A High Court in Kuala Lumpur has granted a doctor permission to initiate judicial review proceedings against the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) and the Registrar of Medical Practitioners. This follows their refusal to register him as a neurosurgery...

Ivermectin has been a well tested and safe drug used over the last 5 decades. Is it our saviour against Covid19?

I have been a practising doctor for 30 years, of which as a cardiologist for 25. Today the word emergency takes a whole new meaning. Unexpectedly Malaysia was declared a state of emergency this morning. It is undoubtedly a move...

It is unfortunate that all effort to contain our country’s situation in March has come to naught. It truly saddened most of us the MCO which managed to curb the spread has come to nothing. Let’s not go into what...

  VIRUSES mutate all the time. New strain of viruses can differ geographically. New strain was first found in the UK but is now seen in a few countries. There are 23 genetic changes in this new strain. In South...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE COVID VACCINE   Vaccination against Covid 19 is possibly the only hope we have in returning to normal life. The Covid pandemic has disrupted what is known to us as normal life for...

With a sudden change from freedom to the Movement Control Order (MCO) and being saddled with social distancing and contact tracing becoming the norm, some entrepreneurs have quickly developed some handy gadgets to help keep the germs away and you...

Coming out of our first week of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), it seems like we are beginning to turn this fight around for the better. COVID-19 began to spread seriously after the Tabligh Jam’at event where an estimated...

  Surgical masks otherwise known as 3 ply masks have been a staple of medicine for a long time. They effectively protect its wearers from droplets and help slow down the rate of infection for airborne diseases. However when you...