Category: Health EN

The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported in 2017 that as much as 80% of antibiotic use is on farm animals. More antibiotics are used on animals than on humans. Antibiotics is used on animal farms as a growth promoter, to prevent disease outbreak and lastly to treat sick animals/ Misuse of antibiotics in farm animals is said to be a greater cause of bacterial resistance than misuse of the...

EACH year about 700,000 people around the world die due to drug-resistant infections. These infections kill because the infections cannot be cured. The actual figure could be much higher because there is no global system to monitor deaths due to drug-resistant infections. And there has been trouble tracking those deaths in places where they are monitored, like in the US, where tens of thousands...

IN a paper published in the journal Sleep, British researcher James Horne reports that even one sleepless night can affect our most creative kind of thinking, known as divergent thinking, which involves spontaneity, flexibility and originality. This type of thinking is used in creative pursuits such as writing or painting, and is required to respond in innovative ways in an emergency. Horne says...

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...

In conjunction to the World No Tobacco Day which falls on 31st May, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) joins the community of public health advocates to urge the Malaysian government  to protect the youth from the tobacco industry’s manipulation. The industry’s hidden agenda is to entice the youth because, once a person is addicted to nicotine, the person will find it very...