Adult Vaccination / Immunisation Program
Vaccinations are ways to protect adults from preventable diseases, but no thanks to many misconceptions, a lot of people still opine that adults do not need to get vaccinated. …
(examples: Dengue Fever, Hypertension, Chronic Disease, etc.)
HEALTH A-Z
Allergic Rhinitis & Sinusitis
Allergic rhinitis: As the name implies, nasal allergies caused by the environment, allergens, heredity that triggering inflammation of the nasal mucosa. If the condition persists, it can lead …
Antibiotics
Antibiotics are substances produced by microorganisms that are chemically treated. This material can inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. In simple terms, antibiotics …
Chickenpox / Varicella
Chickenpox is an extremely common infectious disease in our country. It is caused by “varicella-zoster” virus, one of the herpes viruses. The chickenpox disease itself may be relatively …
Dengue Fever
Dengue fever is an extremely common infectious disease in Malaysia. It spreads among people through the bite of vector-borne mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) …
Gastritis
Intestinal metaplasia, refers to the situation whereby chronic superficial gastritis has transformed into chronic atrophic gastritis. The intestinal mucosa-like cells appearing in…
Hand, Foot And Mouth Disease ( HFMD )
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease – a condition that makes many parents worry. If the parents of the sick children do not take care or do not pay good attention to the children’s conditions, …
Helicobacter Pylori (H.pylori)
When H. pylori is parasitized in the stomach, it may cause epithelial cells in the stomach to become inflamed and cause other pathologies, leading to a variety of gastrointestinal diseases…
Hepatitis B, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Hepatitis C
The liver is a silent organ. In the early stage of liver cancer, there is usually no symptoms. Since the liver has only nerves on the surface, when the tumour grows in the liver at early stage, there…
Influenza Vaccination
Vaccines, in most people’s impressions, are only needed for babies or children. In fact, different stages of adult and gender requiring various vaccinations against different diseases.
Mumps
Mumps is an infectious disease caused by paramyxovirus infection. The infected person will have symptoms of pain and enlargement of the parotid glands, causing both sides of …
Parasitic Worms
Most nematodes such as tapeworms and whipworms are infected through eating food which contains their eggs. While hookworms are different from most nematodes. Hosts are …
Pneumococcal
If young children are infected by PnD because of their exposures to Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, it can cause pneumonia. The patients might risk losing their lives, when treatments …
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and is mostly pulmonary infection. TB bacteria can penetrate many other organs of the body, including the brain, lymph nodes,…
URTI ( Upper Respiratory Tract Disease )
The “common cold or flu” is one of the most rampant diseases. It is the name most familiar to many people. However, many of them are confused with the words. The public is …