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LETTER | Obesity in Malaysia is a ticking time bomb Modified5 Mar 2021, 6:29 am A - LETTER | The World Obesity Day that fell on March 4 is dedicated to addressing the global obesity epidemic. Among its missions are to increase awareness that obesity is a disease. Malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in Southeast Asia. In the 2019 National Health and Morbidity Survey, 50.1 percent of our adult population were reported to be overweight (30.4 percent) or obese (19.7 percent). Obesity is a risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular...

While South Africa shared its Covid-19 vaccine price publicly, the prices paid by the European Union (EU) are only publicly known due to an accidental tweet of the EU’s price list by Belgium’s Budget State Secretary, Eva De Bleeker.  Pharmaceutical companies have provided a range of justifications for charging different countries different prices for the same vaccines. These justifications include the income-level and size of procuring countries, the provision of public investment towards vaccine development and manufacturing scale-up by countries, the timing of orders and delivery, and ...

Autism Education Program ‘CAPTAIN’ Aims To Improve Practices Within Schools A special education teacher in Canyon Country talked to KHTS recently about an autism education group she belongs to, and how it can help families who have a child with autism. The California Autism Professional Training and Information Network (CAPTAIN) is a program funded by the California Department of Education that supports the understanding and use of evidence-based practices for those on the autism spectrum.  According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 54 children in the U.S. have autism, as well as...

Reuters From India to Indonesia, fake news, fear and conspiracy theories surrounding Covid-19 vaccinations are gathering momentum as governments embark on mass inoculation drives against the virus which has killed over 2.1 million and infected nearly 100 million worldwide. Attaining herd immunity through mass vaccination is crucial for the recovery of the devastated global economy. Governments are also racing to vaccinate their populations before the coronavirus mutates further – as has happened in Europe and elsewhere – which could potentially render current vaccines “ineffective”, s...

Two studies by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) show that skin-to-skin care (SSC) -- a specific form of holding in which the...