Share The World Health Organisation on Wednesday raised its flu alert to phase five out of six, WHO chief Margaret Chan said, signalling that a pandemic was “imminent” following the swine flu outbreak. “I have decided to raise the influenza pandemic alert from phase four to phase five,” the WHO director general announced after an [...]

Share Malaysia has the vaccine for swine flu which can be used to stop the spread of the disease to this country. Veterinary Services director-general Datuk Dr Abd Aziz Jamaluddin said the H1N1 vaccine should be injected into pigs as a preventive measure following reports of 81 people killed by the swine flu in Mexico. [...]

Share The Immigration Department has gone on the alert over a swine flu outbreak in Mexico and is ready to work closely with the Health Ministry to prevent the spread of the disease to Malaysia, its director-general Datuk Mahmood Adam said today. “We are awaiting instructions from the Ministry of Health by tomorrow and we [...]

Share You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people, about half have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, while an equally startling number of trim people suffer [...]

Share The eyes may carry important early clues to heart disease, signaling damage to tiny blood vessels long before symptoms start to show elsewhere, researchers reported on Tuesday. People with a type of eye damage known as retinopathy were more likely to die of heart disease over the next 12 years than those without it, [...]