Today's top Malaysian news, sport and lifestyle.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has returned home after undergoing elective laparoscopic surgery to treat a para-umbilical hernia. He was discharged on August 12 following close medical monitoring.
Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has successfully undergone a leadless pacemaker implantation at the National Heart Institute following treatment for abnormal heart rhythm complications.
Hospital Kuala Lumpur has firmly denied allegations that its public toilets are dirty and poorly maintained, following a viral Facebook video. The hospital claims the facilities shown do not belong to its management.
The Malaysian Medical Association is pushing for enhanced workplace protections, including confidentiality guarantees and witness safeguarding, following allegations of sexual harassment and bullying at a Sabah hospital.
Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is set to receive heart treatment at Serdang Hospital next week, marking another significant medical intervention during his continued legal proceedings.
University of Chicago researchers have developed a flexible skin patch embedded with artificial intelligence that can diagnose medical conditions instantly without relying on wireless connections to external servers.
Mental health professionals in Malaysia are calling for greater awareness of hoarding disorder, a condition affecting 2-6% of the global population. The disorder remains widely misunderstood and confused with mere messiness or lack of discipline.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has donated RM2,000 to a gravedigger in Kuala Terengganu suffering from advanced mouth cancer, while authorities work to enrol him in the e-Kasih welfare programme.
A 28-year-old Singaporean trainee doctor has pleaded guilty to secretly filming more than 500 colleagues in toilets and showers at three major Melbourne hospitals, with police discovering over 10,000 video and image files during their investigation.
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Malaysia's cloud-based clinical management system is delivering tangible results, with over four-fifths of patients now seeing medical officers within an hour at public clinics, marking progress in the government's broader healthcare digitalisation agenda.
A 32-year-old nurse in Telangana, India, has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband with an injection of toilet cleaner mixed with crushed sleeping pills through an IV line, following a failed attempt to murder him by throwing him from a roof.