COVID-19 Epidemic in Malaysia: Epidemic Progression, Challenges, and Response

Challenges of Iranian Environmental Health during the COVID-19 Epidemic: Lessons for the Future

Emerging and communicable infectious diseases are one of the major public health challenges that adherence to the principles of primary health care can prevent the rising of morbidity and mortality in communities. This study investigates the environmental health challenges of Iran in Covid-19 epidemic as an emerging infectious disease. Insufficient readiness of the health system, delays in qua...

Review of Anti-inflammatory and Immunosuppressive Drugs Used in COVID-19 Epidemic

Introduction: Immunosuppressive drugs are classified into different groups depending on the mechanism of action and are used in the control of acute and chronic inflammatory disorders. Considering the possibility of severe inflammatory complications such as acute respiratory failure and cytokine storm in the patients with COVID-19, there is a need to review the updated data on the effectiveness...

For-Profit Hospitals Out of Business? Financial Sustainability During the COVID-19 Epidemic Emergency Response

This perspective argues that for-profit hospitals will be heavily affected by epidemic crises, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Policy-makers should be aware that for-profit hospitals in particular are likely to face financial distress. The suspension of all non-urgent elective surgery and the relegation of market-based mechanisms that...

Diabetes epidemic in Malaysia.

295 Some fourteen years ago, I wrote an Editorial in the MJM on diabetes in Malaysia . It could be therapeutic to reflect what has transpired since then. Well, there are still plenty of problems and yet many more challenges, to improving diabetes care in this country. For one, prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Malaysia, both of Type 1 and especially that of Type 2, has increased to epidemic pr...

Psychosocial Problems During the COVID-19 Epidemic Crisis