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Pantai Hospital Penang offers free health screening for Grab drivers

Pantai Hospital Penang (PHP), in collaboration with GrabCar, is offering free annual health screening to all Grab driver-partners across Malaysia.

Govt wont budge from implementing smoking ban - Health Minister

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- The government will not budge from implementing the smoking ban imposed on all eateries despite facing opposition and criticism from smokers, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said today.

Health Ministry acts to address non-communicable diseases

In order to achieve that target, the ministry will focus on healthcare efforts by shifting (greater focus) from healing to prevention.

Address mental illness issues urgently - Lee Lam Thye

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 (Bernama) – The government needs to urgently address mental illness issues and beef up programmes on mental health development in the country.

Sabah enforces smoking ban at eateries from Feb 1

KOTA KINABALU, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- Sabah will prohibit smoking at eateries in the state beginning Feb 1.

3,334 smoking-ban warning notices issued to eateries in Perak

IPOH, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- Perak Health Department has issued 3,334 warning notices to owners of food premises in the state for failing to comply with the smoking ban, which came into effect on Jan 1.

Make CPR a compulsory subject in schools, tertiary institutions - social activist

KUCHING, Jan 9 (Bernama) – A prominent social activist has appealed to the government to make cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) a compulsory subject in all schools and institutions of higher learning in the country.

Smoking ban: Public, private learning institutions next?

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 8 (Bernama) -- The Health Ministry is considering extending the smoking ban at learning institutions such as public and private schools and universities this year, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

Twin babies are the 100th and 101st IVF babies in HSNZ, Terengganu

KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 8 (Bernama) – A pair of twins, born through the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique, bringing joy to their parents who waited eight years to have children, created history at the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital (HSNZ) here.

Physical exercise can counter Alzheimer's, say Brazilian scientists

Physical exercise can counter memory loss caused by Alzheimer's, according to a study published Monday in the magazine, ‘Nature Medicine’.