The case for smoking out e-cigarettes

HealthcareOpinion By admin|September 21, 2015 |0
by Dr Helmy Haja Mydin. First published in The News Straits Times 21 September 2015 CHILDREN are great imitators. My toddler recently starting “praying” — not quite the full version, but she would imitate the rituals and say “Allahu akbar”. Althou [...]

The war on drugs

HealthcareOpinion By admin|September 18, 2015 |0
by Dr Helmy Haja Mydin. First published in digitaledge Weekly 18 September 2015 What do you call a war that lasts a hundred years, costs trillions of dollars but leaves you miles away from attaining your objective? A failure, by most conventional  [...]

Gaps in our healthcare

HealthcareOpinion By admin|August 27, 2015 |0
by Helmy Haja Mydin. First published in The New Straits Times 27 August 2015 Humans have had to contend with tuberculosis (TB) since the dawn of civilisation. The oldest evidence of human infection, a female specimen of the Neolithic era, dates fr [...]