The elderly population in Malaysia are multiplying, and older people's reliance on social services such as institutions has increased. Mental health problems especially depression is one of the main with institutionalized elderly. This study aims to determine prevalence associated risk factors among all three state-run Sabah. A multi-centred, cross-sectional was conducted residents Sabah...

Despite being part of one of the few remaining primitive areas of the world, both Sabah and Sarawak are provided with adequate, though simple, urban and rural general medical services. At present no reliable data on the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in these areas have been collected and no organised treatment services are available. Gonorrhoea appears to be the commonest notifiabl...

Two new Hoya R.Br. species from Borneo are described and illustrated. The first, Hoyaruthiae Rodda was collected in Sabah on Bukit Baturong, a limestone outcrop. It is one of the few species in the genus to have clear exudate. It is compared with the morphologically related Hoyauncinata Teijsm. and Binn. The other, Hoyabakoensis Rodda, was collected in the kerangas forests of Bako National Park...

We present an analysis of a comment network in the Kuwaiti blogging community during the two weeks in January 2006 surrounding the death of Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. We find a rise in commenting activity corresponding to this event, and use a tag cloud to visualize and analyze this topic and others in the blog posts being commented on. We also present an analysis of the Kuwa...

The caesarean section rate in Malaysian public hospitals has increased to 15.7% from 10.5% in the year 2000. There are inter-state variations in the rate ranging from a high of 25.4% in Melaka to 10.9% in Sabah. The West Coast states generally had a higher caesarean section rate than the East Coast states as well as East Malaysia. It would be prudent for Malaysia to implement stringent caesarea...

A new species of semiterrestrial gecarcinucid freshwater crab, Terrathelphusa secula, is described from Danum Valley in Sabah, East Malaysia, eastern Borneo. In the form of its carapace, third maxilliped, and male second gonopod, it most closely resembles T. ovis Ng, 1997, and T. telur Ng, 1997, from eastern Sarawak and Brunei, respectively. It differs markedly from these and other congeners in...

A new genus and new species of the pselaphine tribe Batrisini, Smetanabatrus kinabalu gen. et sp. n., is described from Sabah, East Malaysia. Both sexes of the new species have securiform maxillary palpi, with the male exhibiting extreme abdominal modification. Illustrations of the habitus and major diagnostic features, as well as a discussion on the taxonomic placement of the new taxon is prov...

The Rungus are one of the indigenous Dusunic ethnic groups Sabah, northernmost region Malaysia on Borneo Island. Most people reside in administrative Districts Kudat and Pitas northern Sabah. In culture, many different genres intangible cultural heritage, including traditional secular folk songs, have been passed down orally over generations. An important category longoi tanganak (children’s so...

Abstract A new species of freshwater crab the genus Isolapotamon Bott, 1968 (Potamidae) is described from western Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. seowi species, sixth known Sabah, and differs its closest congener, I. buntyae Ng, Low & Clark, 2022, eastern Borneo, possessing a relatively lower carapace, more rugose dorsal carapace surface, postorbital cristae being sharper subparallel with fronta...

Introduction. The burden of tuberculosis is high in eastern Malaysia, and rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance are poorly defined. Our objectives were to determine M. tuberculosis susceptibility and document management after receipt of susceptibility results. Methods. Prospective study of adult outpatients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Sabah, Malaysia. Addit...