KUALA LUMPUR: Kawasaki disease or also known as Kawasaki syndrome although rare, can cause the risk of death among infected children if not given appropriate treatment immediately.
PETALING JAYA: The ideal weight of a school bag should not be more than 10% to 15% of a child’s body weight, said consultant paediatrician Datuk Dr Amar-Singh HSS.
PETALING JAYA: Six-year-old Syed Muzafar Mohd Azlan was cheerfully playing with his cat at home in Semenyih yesterday. No one would have known that just a day earlier, he had been all nerves about getting his Covid-19 vaccination.
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry is not considering offering booster Covid-19 vaccine doses to adolescents at this point in time, says its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
THIS has proved to be another challenging year for the nation as the Covid-19 pandemic raged on, owing to the emergence of new variants. Although Malaysia got off on the wrong foot in its vaccine rollout, it managed to pull out a win in the end.