Traditional Medicine or Complementary Medicine. What is it?

Traditional Medicine or Complementary Medicine. What is it?

What is traditional medicine?

“Traditional medicine as define as diverse health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant, animal, and/or mineral based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises applied singularly or in combination to maintain well-being, as well as to treat, diagnose or prevent illness.”

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Can Acupuncture Fight Belly Fat?

A handful of jabs might help you drop a pants size, say researchers at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. In a new study in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine, folks who got acupuncture for eight weeks saw a 6% reduction in BMI, a smaller waist circumference, and a loss in overall body fat.

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Easy Bruising

Bruises occur as a result of blood leaking out of the blood vessels within the skin. Bruises are common in children when they go about their normal activities. They tend to fall while playing, run into each other or bump into furniture. Bruises that need worrying are those which occur spontaneously or that are out of proportion to the injury.

Abnormal bleeding can be caused by:

1. disorder of blood vessels (vascular disorders)
2. quantitative or qualititative problems of blood cells called platelets or
3. defective blood coagulation process

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Take vaccination if the U.S.

Kuala Lumpur 14 January - Malaysians especially senior citizens who wish to enter the United States (U.S.) and countries affected by winter advised vigilance to prevent flu infection.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said this was because there were reports of at least 28.747 cases with 20 children in the U.S. die from the infection.

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Human Papiloma Virus (HPV)

What is Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)?

This is only one of the numerous sexually transmitted diseases in adult population. It may present as unsightly genital viral warts (fleshy grape-like lesions). The infection of the cervix in women can lead to the fairly common cervical cancer later in life.

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Slimming products seized poison hazard

PETALING JAYA, Oct 18. - Pharmaceutical Services State Health Department seized 120 boxes of slimming products worth RM13, 680 as sibutramine poison that harms the health of a business premises here.

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Hot Weather: Advice To The Public

Hot weather physical stress on the human body. The effect can be of the same level (mild) to which can cause death due to heat stroke eg.

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Sleep Disorder

Introduction

Normal adults require 6-8 hours of sleep. Children need longer hours of sleep but the elderly need shorter (4-5) hours. Sleep disorder is a disruption in sleep pattern. Common causes of sleep disorders are:

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Dengue still serious threat, says Health Ministry sec-gen

SIBU, July 17(Bernama) -- Dengue is still a serious threat in the country, said Health Ministry secretary-general, Datuk Kamarul Zaman Md.Isa.

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The Academy of Medicine of Malaysia

The Beginning

The need for a professional organisation to assure the maintenance of a high standard of professional and ethical practice had been recognised since the late 1950s. In 1957, the Academy of Medicine was duly founded in Singapore. Unlike the Colleges in the United Kingdom and Australia it was decided that in the context of Malaysia-Singapore, it would be more appropriate to form a specialist organisation embracing all specialities.

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