Four More Die From Influenza

Sun, Jan 08, 2012 A total of 71 new cases of influenza with complications have been recorded, with four more fatalities, since Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said. As of Friday, health officials had confirmed 366 flu cases with…

COA Confirms Cases of Avian Influenza in Changhua CountyTue, Jan 10, 2012 Inspections of chickens s

Tue, Jan 10, 2012 Inspections of chickens suspected of having been infected with avian influenza in Changhua County returned H5N2-positive results from chicken tissue samples.However, the overall death rate among the chickens remained normal,…

No Shortage at HKL Despite Theft, Says Minister

03-Jan-2012 PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has assured that there is sufficient medicine for patients at Hospital Kuala Lumpur despite the theft of drugs, including cough syrup, antibiotics and fever tablets worth RM1mil. Minister Datuk…

Hospital Pharmacist, Accomplice Held for Stealing Drugs From Dispensary

03-Jan-2012 The two allegedly pulled off the theft of the drugs during the recent extended weekend holidays to mark the Christmas celebrations. Hospital employees who returned from the holidays noticed the drugs had gone missing and quickly…

New Act to Be a Bitter Pill

01-Jan-2012 The ministry's Pharmaceutical Services Division director of pharmacy enforcement Mohd Hatta Ahmad said current laws like the Poisons Act 1952, Sale of Drugs Act 1952 and the Control of Drugs and Cosmetic Regulations 1984 were archaic…

Help for Sendong’s Victims

Dear Fellow Pharmacists and Local PPhA Chapters, The PPhA National Officers are soliciting your help and support for our colleagues & their families in the typhoon affected areas of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan city. Let us show our support in…

Pharmatech 2012- International Conference & Exhibition On Pharmaceutical

The conference sets to act as a meeting point for integrating scientific knowledge from the perspectives of dosage form design, material synthesis, drug discovery, formulation, processing technology, manufacturing design, clinical trial, in-vitro…

Pharmacists Unfairly Blamed

WE read "Malacca Hospital gets more funds" (The Star, Dec 12) and "Hospitals in Malacca out of medicine" (The Star, Dec 7) with dismay. While the pharmacy profession was not named specifically in the articles, the comments unfairly paint the…

Malacca Hospital Gets More Funds

PUTRAJAYA: The medicine shortage at the Malacca Hospital has been resolved as additional funds were disbursed to the hospital last month. Health director-general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman, however, said he was not satisfied with the slow…

Medicine Shortage due to Allocation Delay

Compiled by LIM WEY WEN, NG SI HOOI and A. RAMAN THE recent medicine shortage at the Malacca Hospital was due to a delay in the Health Ministry's allocation for the purchase of new supply, Kosmo! reported. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali…