Month: June 2020

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked by the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019 revelation that about 424,000 children in Malaysia have mental health problems. NHMS called the escalating mental health crisis as the ‘hidden epidemic’. We are concerned because the afflicted children represent 9.5 per cent of those aged between five and 15, a significant number...

The grave nature of covid-19 has made nations globally to take drastic measures to curb the pandemic. However there is another killer among us that yearly has taken even a bigger toll of fatalities compared to covid -19, which is diabetes mellitus. The WHO estimated that more than 200 million people worldwide are living with diabetes and each year another seven million develop it. In 2019, there...

If antibiotic resistance persists -- for cancer patients, this may mean higher mortality, more difficult and more expensive treatment, and many side effects. Many treatment options will disappear entirely. Antibiotic resistant bacteria will thus set cancer treatment back for decades, while the incidence of cancer cases will continue to rise in the years to come. Cancer treatments such as...