As famine looms in Sudan, the hungry eat soil and leaves
Nearly five million people in the country are close to famine as Sudan's civil war passes the one-year mark.
Sun May 12 2024
Faisal Halim has suffered fourth-degree burns, speech and movement affected - FAS deputy president
After first surgery, specialist doctors found that it was not second-degree burns but fourth-degree burns, said Datuk Seri Shahril Mokhtar.
Tue May 07 2024
Consider This: War on Gaza — Healthcare, Code Red
A new report has just been released by the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) titled ‘Gaza’s Silent Killings’. The report documents the destruction of the healthcare system and the thousands of individuals who have died as a result of entirely preventable circumstances or from their critical healthcare being disrupted due to the conflict. On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Mercè Rocaspana Moncayo, Health Advisor to the Emergency Unit for Doctors Without Borders.
Tue Apr 30 2024
King Charles to visit cancer centre on his return to public duties
Buckingham Palace announced that doctors were sufficiently pleased with King Charles's response to treatment for unspecified form of cancer.
Tue Apr 30 2024
South Korea set to adjust medical reforms in bid to end walkout, say media reports
South Korea says it is willing to adjust plans to raise medical school admissions in a bid to end a walkout by junior doctors.
Fri Apr 19 2024
Sweden passes law to make it easier to change legal gender
Swedes have been able to change legal gender since 1972, but requires a thorough investigation and a doctor's diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
Thu Apr 18 2024
20 Malaysians to join Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to Gaza
Dr Kamal Nashruddin Mustapha said the twenty participants consisted of media practitioners, doctors and humanitarian activists.
Tue Apr 16 2024
South Korea's medical professors join protests, reduce hours in practice
Professors will start scaling back outpatient treatment to focus on emergency and severely ill patients, while some submit resignations.
Mon Mar 25 2024
INSIGHT - In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms
There are widespread shortages of food, medicines and clean water in Gaza, doctors and aid agencies say.
Sat Mar 23 2024
INSIGHT - Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
People venturing out from their homes in a desperate search for food at the risk of being hit by artillery shells.
Sat Mar 16 2024
South Korea opens hotline to support doctors defying walkout
The health minister said hotline is to support physicians who faced harassment or peer pressure if they chose not to join a mass walkout.
Tue Mar 12 2024
South Korea deploys military, public doctors to strike-hit hospitals
Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health doctors will be assigned to 20 hospitals for four weeks, the Health Minister said.
Mon Mar 11 2024
The Future is Female: #IWD2024 - Gender Pain Gap: Women's Pain Matters
To commemorate #InternationalWomensDay 2024, this episode of #TheFutureIsFemale aims to shine a spotlight on a pressing issue at the intersection of gender equality and healthcare: the gender pain gap. Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Hannah Nazri, Director and Founder of the collective, Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children. She is a National Institute for Health and Care Research Academic Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Warwick, and has completed her PhD in endometriosis research at the Oxford University. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Asia Network to End FGM/C.
Sun Mar 10 2024
South Korea police to question medical body officials over trainee doctors walkout
South Korean police called in for questioning officials from a doctors' association over accusations they had broken medical law.
Wed Mar 06 2024
South Korea says to start legal action against doctors over walkout
Protesting trainee doctors could face administrative and legal penalties including suspension of medical licences and fines or a jail term.
Mon Mar 04 2024
Zii Jia, Jun Hao lepasi halangan pertama Terbuka Thailand
Zii Jia melepasi halangan pertama dalam misi memburu gelaran kedua Terbuka Thailand selepas mengiringi rakan senegara Leong Jun Hao mara ke pusingan kedua di Stadium Nimibutr di sini hari ini.
Wed May 15 2024
INNOVATHON musim kedua sasar tarik bakat muda, pupuk minat pada STEM
INNOVATHON musim kedua memfokuskan kepada penghasilan tenaga kerja dan bakat masa depan yang mampu bergerak seiring dengan kemajuan dalam bidang sains, teknologi, kejuruteraan, dan matematik (STEM) serta penyelidikan dan pembangunan (R&D).
Wed May 15 2024
Tuanku Zara Salim rasmi Pameran Limar anjuran Muzium Seni Asia, UM
Raja Permaisuri Perak Darul Ridzuan Tuanku Zara Salim berkenan untuk merasmikan Pameran Limar “Tenunan warisan yang kian dilupakan” anjuran Muzium Seni Asia Universiti Malaya dimana sejumlah 78 koleksi tenunan limar dipamerkan bersempena pameran tersebut.
Wed May 15 2024
Lawrence Wong sah PM baharu, Lee Hsien Loong kini Menteri Kanan
Timbalan Setiausaha Agung Parti Tindakan Rakyat (PAP) Singapura, Lawrence Wong, 51, secara rasminya mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri republik itu yang baharu, pada Selasa.
Majlis mengangkat sumpah itu dilakukan di hadapan Ketua Hakim Singapura, Sundaresh Menon dan Presiden Singapura, Tharman Shanmugaratnam di Istana.
Majlis mengangkat sumpah itu dilakukan di hadapan Ketua Hakim Singapura, Sundaresh Menon dan Presiden Singapura, Tharman Shanmugaratnam di Istana.
Wed May 15 2024
Peristiwa Nakba disifatkan berulang, tapi lebih dahsyat
76 tahun berlalu, peristiwa Nakba yang berlaku pada 14 Mei 1948 terus diingati sebagai peristiwa hitam buat rakyat Palestin. Nakba yang membawa maksud malapetaka merujuk kepada penghapusan etnik Palestin, yang mana bagi penduduk Gaza, peristiwa itu tidak ubah seperti apa yang berlaku sekarang. Penderitaan dan kesengsaraannya malah disifatkan lebih teruk berbanding 1948.
Wed May 15 2024
Malaysia mahu terokai pelbagai bidang dengan Republik Kyrgyz
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata, Malaysia berhasrat untuk menjalin kerjasama dengan Republik Kyrgyz dalam pelbagai bidang yang boleh dibangunkan bersama.
Wed May 15 2024
Dua pegawai penjara maut, seorang banduan lolos
Penyerang bersenjata membunuh dua pegawai penjara Perancis dan mencederakan tiga yang lain dalam serangan ke atas konvoi di Normandy pada Selasa.
Wed May 15 2024
Data PADU sudah sedia, tunggu masa sesuai elak spekulasi inflasi - Rafizi
Sebarang keputusan berhubung pelaksanaan mekanisme tersebut, hanya akan diputuskan oleh kerajaan pada tempoh yang sesuai bagi mengelakkan spekulasi inflasi.
Wed May 15 2024
Kyrgyz zahirkan hasrat Malaysia lantik penasihat kepada kerajaan republik itu - PM
Republik Kyrgyz hari ini menzahirkan hasrat supaya Malaysia melantik seorang penasihat kepada kerajaan negara itu, kata Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Wed May 15 2024
Cadangan gaji minimum UNICEF sedang dikaji - Rafizi
Rafizi menjelaskan perbincangan berkenaan gaji minimum termasuk prosesnya itu adalah tanggungjawab Majlis Perundingan Gaji Negara bagi menilai kedudukan gaji minimum.
Wed May 15 2024