News & Updates

Telemedicine is here to stay and as the population of Malaysia ages, it is imperative that the older population come to terms with technology and embrace telemedicine in order to improve their access to healthcare. 

An intradialytic parenteral nutrition (IDPN) program helps improve serum albumin, body weight, oral intake, and other nutritional indices in haemodialysis (HD) patients with protein-energy wasting (PEW), a recent study has found.

Social media is an integral part of modern life. With its ubiquity come both pros and cons. On one hand, it has the ability to connect family and friends from different corners of the world. On the other, it creates the incessant exposure to information, both good and bad. This constant barrage of information, especially negative or contrary to one’s world view, can lead to negative consequences. 

In patients with papillary thyroid cancer, sarcopaenia significantly worsens the risk of local progression and tumour invasion into major organs or blood vessels, a recent study has found.

A treatment approach of combining interventions from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) specific to either eating disorder (ED) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is safe and effective, helping improve symptoms of PTSD in patients with both ED and PTSD (ED-PTSD), as shown in a recent study.

Older patients undergoing subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) implantation have a comparable risk of death, device reoperation, device removal for infection, device reoperation without infection, and cardiovascular and all-cause readmission with those receiving transvenous ICD (TV-ICD), a study has shown.