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A survey of 362 doctors in Malaysia revealed that two-in-five experienced or witnessed verbal abuse from patients or their relatives within the past 12 months and at least one-in-50 suffered physical abuse.

A multidisciplinary intervention program for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the primary care setting subsequently reduces the incidence of dementia, as reported in a study.

Current guidelines that are being used in Singapore (SG) for predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) must be updated to improve risk prediction accuracy. This can be done by recalibrating risk functions and employing wearable metrics that provide a huge amount of objective health data, suggests a study.

The Wellcome Trust Career Development Award amounting to RM11.3 million has been granted to Associate Professor Dr Ho Weang Kee, Ph.D, who leads a research program on breast cancer co-hosted by University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) and Cancer Research Malaysia.

Critically ill patients with obesity see a significant rise in their body temperature following the use of dexmedetomidine (DEX) for ongoing sedation, as shown in a recent study. Furthermore, DEX duration and baseline temperature are significantly associated with fever development in these individuals.