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Wander and be enlightened by the endlessly fascinating inner universe that is the human body. We speak with experts, Nobel laureates, cancer survivors and healthcare workers who share their unique perspectives on wellness and living and the latest medical research.

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45:54

Understanding Play Therapy

Health & Living ·

2025/05/22

What’s the difference between letting children play, and using play in therapy for emotional, behavioural, and psychological issues in young children? We find out from Dr Rajini Sarvananthan, consultant developmental paediatrician, and Raynette Soon, play therapist.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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40:05

Mind Matters: Supporting People Living With...

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2025/05/21

One of the most common perceptions of people diagnosed with schizophrenia is that they tend to be violent. But how much of that is true and how much do we really understand about what it means to live with a serious mental health disorder? For this episode of Mind Matters, and in conjunction with World Schizophrenia Day, coming up on May 24th, we want to shed some light on this less spoken about mental health disorder and how we can better support people living with schizophrenia in the community

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26:18

Nudging Consumers To Make Healthier Grocery Choices

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2025/05/20

When you’re walking down the supermarket aisle, what drives you to decide what to buy? Are you ticking items off a list or being tempted by what’s on offer? Do you think about what is a healthier or a cheaper option? Understanding how people make these decisions matters in a society where we’re seeing rising rates of non-communicable diseases, which are partially driven by people’s eating and grocery habits. Here to dive into that is Dr Eric Finkelstein, health economist and Professor of Health

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38:58

It’s Ok To Go Low-Salt

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2025/05/19

How much salt do you consume every day, and how much of that do you think comes from meals that you order or tah pau from coffeeshops and restaurants? And can food vendors change their menus to reflect lower salt usage? To commemorate World Salt Awareness Week from 12-18 May, we speak to Prof Dr Chia Yook Chin, President of the Malaysian Society for World Action on Salt, Sugar and Health (MyWASSH), to find out more about an initiative to introduce salt reduction across the Sunway University

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44:51

How Pharmacists Can Help Lower Rising Healthcare Costs

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2025/05/16

Everything related to healthcare is becoming more expensive today, including medicines, hospital and clinic visits, and insurance premiums. What role do community pharmacies play in helping people get affordable and effective care for their health problems, and are there potential cost savings to the government and other payors in our health system? We speak to Sarah Abdullah, President of the Malaysian Community Pharmacy Guild.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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44:17

Shouldering the Pain: Knowing When The Pain Is Not...

Health & Living ·

2025/05/15

From badminton to swimming or lifting weights in the gym, most exercises require good shoulder strength and mobility. So what happens if you lose that full range of motion? We find out from consultant orthopaedic surgeon Dr Harjeet Singh and consultant sports medicine physician Dr Kamaljeet Singh.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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42:40

Counsellor’s Corner: How To Handle Disagreements

Health & Living ·

2025/05/14

Many problems in our personal and work relationships stem from conflict and disagreements that have been left unsaid. Licensed counsellor Heeran Kaur joins us to walk you through what happens when conflict is not addressed or resolved, and how to start those conversations with people around you.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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42:54

Humans of Healthcare: The Paediatric Cardiothoracic...

Health & Living ·

2025/05/13

As part of Dr Siti Laura Mazalan’s job as a congenital and paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, she touches a tiny infant’s beating heart, handling the delicate arteries, veins and valves, in order to treat congenital and acquired heart and chest diseases in children. We speak to Dr Siti Laura about why this vital field in medicine urgently needs to be pursued by young doctors and medical students.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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45:54

How Obesity Makes Pregnancy Dangerous

Health & Living ·

2025/05/09

Being obese increases your risk for various health complications, and that’s especially true - and more dangerous - when you’re pregnant and overweight. We speak to consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist Dr Vicky Ho to find out how obesity affects women who are trying to start a family as well as the risk that comes with it throughout pregnancy - including on the unborn baby.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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48:14

Public Health: How Will Malaysia Afford Aged Care?

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2025/05/08

Once upon a time, growing old meant being surrounded by family members in a multigenerational home. Today, that family has shrunk, and growing old might mean an older person needing long-term institutional or home-based care. While we have a dependable healthcare system that takes care of older adults, our aged care system is less so, with access depending largely on what people can afford. On the Public Health show, we speak to Assoc Prof Dr Rahimah Ibrahim, Director of MyAgeing at Universiti Putra

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34:02

Do Performance-Enhancing Drugs Work And Are They Ever...

Health & Living ·

2025/05/07

For some people, exercising may not lead to obvious results - at least not in the short-term and depending on how you’re working out. This means that some might turn to supplements or performance-enhancing drugs, which may help you achieve the results you want to see but at what cost? We find out why these products can be dangerous and how people can see a difference without resorting to these products from consultant sports medicine physician Dr Arvin Raj.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee

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40:40

Childhood Asthma Is Still A Major Problem

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2025/05/06

When you think about chronic diseases, you may not think that children could be affected. But did you know that asthma is the most common chronic disease in children? It can even lead to death, if it is not well-controlled. On World Asthma Day (observed on the first Tuesday of every May), we’re looking at childhood asthma in Malaysia, with Dr Jessie Anne de Bruyne, Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Physician and Prof Dr Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail, Consultant Respiratory Physician, both from the Lung

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31:18

Healthy Ageing: Can The Shingles Vaccine Prevent...

Health & Living ·

2025/05/05

You might have seen recent headlines which say that the shingles vaccine can decrease the risk of dementia, but how does that work? On this episode of Healthy Ageing, we speak to consultant geriatrician Dr Kejal Hasmukharay to find out why getting the shingles vaccine matters, not just to decrease the risk of dementia but for our older adults to lead healthy lives.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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41:42

Private Healthcare Facilities Must Now Display Drug...

Health & Living ·

2025/05/02

Yesterday, the drug price display mandate came into force, which requires private health facilities such as private GPs and community pharmacies to physically display the price list for products such as prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines. This has been a particularly contentious issue - the Ministry of Health says that this is part of efforts to address rising medical inflation, but medical groups have also been resistant to its implementation - or perhaps more accurately, how it’s

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Pioneering Advancements In Heart Failure Care

Health & Living ·

2025/04/30

When it comes to cardiovascular disease in our country, we are not only burdened by coronary artery disease, but also, increasingly, heart failure. As the rates of cardiometabolic diseases increase in Malaysia, people will also have to contend with heart failure as an endpoint, which means their quality of life in their remaining years can deteriorate tremendously. How does early diagnosis and the use of cost-effective treatment improve the outlook for heart failure patients? We speak to Professor

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44:40

Living With A Rare Disorder & Going Through Puberty

Health & Living ·

2025/04/29

Adolescence is already a challenging stage in life - for both parents and teens alike - but what happens when you throw in a rare disorder? We speak to Azhar Talib, whose daughter has Prader-Willi syndrome, and Prof Dr Muhammad yazid Jalaludin, a consultant paediatric endocrinologist, to discuss what it’s like managing a rare disorder and the child’s health during that transition phase from childhood into adolescence and later into adulthood.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for

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47:12

NCD Chronicles #27: “Reborn” After A Liver Transplant

Health & Living ·

2025/04/28

For five long years, Farah Syahidah Shamsuddin was on the waiting list for a liver transplant. Her liver, damaged due to a congenital condition, was losing its ability to support the body in fundamental processes like metabolism, detoxification, and digestion. When she finally underwent the transplant, it was like being reborn. Farah shares her experience of awaiting a donated liver, while consultant hepatologist & gastroenterologist Dr Haniza Omar talks about the transplant procedure. You can

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24:15

Mental Health Support For Putra Heights Disaster

Health & Living ·

2025/04/25

Since the gas pipeline explosion in Putra Heights, Selangor, on 1 April 2025, dozens of residents are still displaced, while hundreds of others are trying to settle back into a normal routine after the terrifying incident and chaos that ensued. Amid the injuries, burns and destruction of property, how have the survivors of the disaster been coping psychologically? We speak to Haji Hakim Bin Hamzah, Director of Finance, Administration and HR from Mercy Malaysia - who was also present to provide

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40:28

Is There An Autism “Epidemic” Due To Environmental...

Health & Living ·

2025/04/24

Last week, news headlines exploded when the US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr said that the significant and recent rise in autism diagnoses was evidence of an “epidemic” caused by an “environmental toxin”. We’re exploring the facts and fallacies behind this claim, with Dr Rajini Sarvanathan and Dr Norazlin Kamal, Consultant Developmental Paediatricians.Image Credit: Lance Cpl. Andrea Ovalle, Defense Visual Information Distribution ServiceSee omnystudio.com/listener for

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46:36

Is There A Future for Vaccines?

Health & Living ·

2025/04/23

We’ve often heard that vaccines save lives, but have we ever thought about what the world would look like without vaccines? While many have had a newfound appreciation for vaccines after the COVID-19 pandemic, others developed a large dose of skepticism and hesitancy towards vaccines. So what does this mean for the future of vaccines? In conjunction with World Immunisation Week (observed annually in the last week of April), we’ll be discussing those questions with Dr Jerome Kim, director-general of

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