KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15 — The prevalence of diabetes is still showing an alarmingly increasing trend every year despite globally agreed on targets to control the rise of diabetes by 2025.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — Five syrup medicines linked to the deaths of children in Indonesia are not registered in Malaysia, Health Ministry (MoH) senior director of pharmacy services Norhaliza A Halim said.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 13 — The prevalence of blindness in Malaysia is 1.2 per cent of the population and among the main causes are cataract (58.6 per cent), diabetic retinopathy (10.4 per cent) and glaucoma (6.6 per cent), said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA TERENGGANU, Oct 13 — Individuals who are Covid-19 positive but not in critical condition will be allowed to vote in the 15th general election (GE15), Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — The four cough and cold syrup products produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in India, which were linked to the death of 66 children in Gambia, are not registered in Malaysia, said Health director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 28 — The Health Ministry (MOH) will prepare a new Cabinet memorandum relating to the application to abolish Section 209 of the Penal Code (Act 574) to decriminalise suicide attempts as proposed by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has announced that the wearing of face masks onboard aircraft is no longer compulsory effective from today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Defence (Mindef) will draw up a new framework to optimise the use of the assets of both ministries.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has received a total of 103 complaints about facilities that provide aesthetic services between January and August this year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has approved 4,053 out of 8,672 initial applications for permanent positions involving contract medical and dental officers and pharmacists for this year, its minister Khairy Jamaluddin said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — The Health Ministry (MOH) is targeting at least 10 million Malaysians to remain healthy in the next 10 years, its minister Khairy Jamaluddin said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 — The Spikevax brand Covid-19 vaccine produced by Rovi Pharma Industrial Services in Spain has been given conditional approval for use in Malaysia by 12-year-olds and above, said Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) has seized unregistered pharmaceutical products estimated at RM2,652,500 and detected 2,438 links on websites selling unregistered pharmaceuticals nationwide in Operation Pangea XV carried out from June 23 to July 1.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) welcomes applications to conduct clinical trials on products containing cannabis extract for medical purposes as no such clinical trials are being carried out in the country so far, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — The opening of the first central oncology laboratory for clinical trials in Malaysia, Hematogenix is expected to move local pharmaceutical and healthcare industries further up the value chain into research and development (R&D) and related services.

IPOH, July 17 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has confirmed that seven deaths involving malaria infection were detected from January 2 to July 9 this year.

IPOH, July 16 — The government has launched a five-month campaign aimed at screening 1.5 million people because the level of health awareness in the country is still low, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

KAMPAR, July 16 — The Health Ministry (MOH) is conducting a survey on the health of the Orang Asli, involving 21,000 respondents from July 13 to September 13.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin confirmed that so far no Malaysian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia have been infected with monkeypox.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — The Health Ministry (MOH) today confirmed one case of monkeypox involving a Malaysian residing in Singapore, which was detected on Wednesday.