On 7 April 2011, World Health Organisation (WHO) marked World Health Day 2011. This year’s theme is antimicrobial resistance. It is timely given the global emergence and spread of New Delhi metallo-betalactamase-1 (NDM-1) in 2010, adding to an increasing list of resistance mutations that may spell the end of...

The response of the international media to the possible health effects of the radiation leaks that occurred at Fukushima, Japan, following the massive earthquake and Tsunami have shown that we have still not learned sufficiently from the Chernobyl accident. There is still a public perception that any amount of...

The development of new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is a serious metabolic complication of kidney transplantation that predisposes patients to graft dysfunction, cardiovascular disease and death. Although NODAT has been recognised for many years, the true incidence has been difficult to establish due to inconsistencies in the definition of...

In Malaysia, the National Health and Morbidity Survey III (NHMS III) showed an increase in adult (aged 18 to 64 years old) onset diabetes mellitus (DM) in Malaysia from 6.3% in 1986 to 11.6% in 2006. The prevalence of DM among Malaysian adults aged above 30 years is 14.9%....

Heart failure (HF) is a major health care burden: it is the leading cause of hospitalisation in persons older than 65 years, and confers an annual mortality of 10%. HF can occur with either normal or reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF). Patients with heart failure with normal...