KUALA LUMPUR – The Drug Control Authority (DCA) has cancelled the registration of the traditional product “Pao Ni Kang” because it contains the scheduled poison “Repaglinide”, Director-General of Health Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman said on Friday.
He said Repaglinide is a scheduled poison used in the treatment of diabetes and is not permitted to [...]
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has among the highest incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) in the world but early detection is hampered by poor awareness of its symptoms.
Malaysian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgeons president Dr Yap Yoke Yeow said NPC was one of the most treatable cancers.
“If they come to us at [...]
KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Health will ensure that orange juice imported from Brazil is not contaminated with carbendazim residue, a type of fungicide.
Its deputy minister, Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin based on Schedule 16, Rule 41 of the Food Regulations 1985, carbendazim is not allowed in orange juice in the country.
“However, according to [...]
WHILE about 10 per cent of Malaysians over 60 years old would have suffered from osteoarthritis, recent trends suggest the younger ones are not spared either.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Wong Chya Wei revealed such trends were quite glaring worldwide, sparking debates in the medical fraternity on whether regular exercise was among the causative factors.
Dr Wong, who [...]
EXPOSURE to high levels of a group of common household chemicals may impair children’s immunity, a new study suggests.
The team of researchers, from the United States and Denmark, showed that elevated exposures to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in early childhood was associated with a reduced immune response to two routine immunizations.
“We found that PFC pollution is [...]
EATING less may keep the mind young, according to Italian scientists who reported Monday they have discovered the molecular process by which a strict diet may save the brain from the ravages of age.
The research, published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on a study of mice [...]
KUANTAN – Toxorhynchites, a mosquito species of the larger kind can restrict the breeding of aedes mosquitoes responsible for spreading dengue, Local Government Department director general Datuk Halimi Abdul Manaf said.
This is possible as the larvae of Toxorhynchites consumes the larvae of the aedes mosquitoes, he said.
“Dengue is one of the world’s biggest threats which [...]
WHAT do Kim Kardashian, LeAnn Rimes and Joseph Stalin have in common? All have, at one time or other, suffered from a skin condition known as psoriasis.
“Psoriasis appears as raised red patches of skin covered with slivery-white scales,” says Dr Steven Chow, consultant dermatologist and medical advisor to the Psoriasis Association of Malaysia.
The condition, which [...]
A NEW study suggests dietary supplements may be linked to a slightly increased risk of death in older women.
The 19-year study involved about 39,000 women with an average age of 62.
Those taking multivitamins or supplements of iron, Vitamin B-6, folic acid, magnesium, zinc and copper had, on average, a 2.4 percent increased chance of death [...]
IT turns out that catching cancer early isn’t always as important as we thought.
Some tumors are too slow-growing to ever threaten your life. Some are so aggressive that finding them early doesn’t make much difference. And today’s treatments are much better for those somewhere in the middle.
Those complexities are changing the longtime mantra that cancer [...]
