Obesity Prevention Must Begin at Home
So, the cat’s out of the bag! One in two Malaysians are obese. A fifth have diabetes. A third have raised blood pressure (NHMS 2019). While the public health doctor…
Vaccine Hesitancy
As a mother of three young children and a public health doctor as well, the first reported case of polio shocked me. We have not had a polio case in…
Digital Health and Non Communicable Disease
The following article was authored by Dr Feisul Idzwan Mustapha and Dr Arunah Chandran for the conference, “The promise of digital health to address non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income…
Ministry of Health and Novo Nordisk team up to launch the ‘Sama-Sama’ project to empower family members of people living with Diabetes
By empowering family members of people living with diabetes, we hope to create a better supportive environment to improve the quality of life of both the patient and the family…
