SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Seafarers who fall sick can soon have medicine flown to them by drones.
KUALA LUMPUR: Over 70 doctors and healthcare professionals across over 40 specialties are live on a teleconsultation platform for the benefit of Sunway Medical Centre patients.
The health authorities in Singapore are keeping watch on four diseases, including Covid-19, H5N1 and mpox, as part of efforts to prepare the Republic for another pandemic.
Don’t feel like going to work or school? Just do a teleconsultation and get a medical chit to go on sick leave for the day.
JOHOR Research Day was hosted for the first time by Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) in collaboration with the Johor State Health Department and the Clinical Research Centre network of Johor.
AGAINST the backdrop of Mount Kinabalu, Kampung Togop Darat 1 is home to about 1,000 Dusun folk.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Imagine stepping into a clinic and having your temperature, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels and body mass index taken within minutes - all without having to interact with any other human being.
There has been increasing demand for home healthcare in recent years, according to industry professionals.
Contact tracing is only one of the many functions of the BruHealth app as it is also an application that enables the public to check their health status.
CYBERJAYA: The government has no plans to create a specific act for the purpose of regulating social media platforms, says Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil.
KUALA LUMPUR: With the pandemic driving people to take ownership of their health and spurring healthcare providers to deliver solutions that are sustainable, digitally and easily accessible to all, Island Hospital chief operating officer Stephanie Lee said the industry will be more flexible moving forward.
Programme by U Mobile and DoctorOnCall with support of Qualcomm makes healthcare more accessible for Malaysians
News highlights from the Asean Plus section on Wednesday (April 26)
PICTURE this, it’s early Monday morning and Leela wakes up feeling extremely sick – so much so, that she can barely get out of bed to go to the doctor.
LIPIS: After witnessing the lack of medical care and accessibility in remote areas, a team of doctors stepped in and set up Malaysia’s first Orang Asli (OA) medical post in Kampung Dayok, Pos Lenjang, here.
Medical tourism has been in the revival stage in Thailand for the past few months and will continue to expand
It is an umbrella term for a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to move, balance and maintain posture.
Public hospitals are working with the Health Ministry to ensure there are enough resources and manpower to care for patients, as emergency departments see very high volumes of patients amid the latest Covid-19 wave.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Yio Chu Kang is set to be the first dementia-friendly constituency with infrastructure and services catered for residents aged 65 and above who now form about 40 per cent of the housing estate’s population.
KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin hopes that the monitoring and telemedicine services for patients after discharge, or EM Watch, currently being used in two leading hospitals, can be expanded to other hospitals involving various departments.