We have all heard of the importance of first-aid skills. But how many of us learn them, and how many of us are ready and capable to help save lives in an emergency? Given the number of road accidents in the Klang Valley, many of us have likely passed by an emergency rescue scene but not know what to do. We speak to a paramedic about his experience and the need for first aid skills.

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With the year-end holidays around the corner, you may be planning a family trip. While travelling with children is every parent’s nightmare, you can make this process easier by understanding how travel stress affects children. Well-planned travel can benefit children immensely in terms of their learning and development.

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Comedian Dr Jason Leong gets serious about what being a doctor taught him about life and laughter.

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After just five weeks of the 2017-2018 season, Premiership Rugby clubs are already dealing with depleted squads due to early-season injuries. We discuss if rugby is facing an injury crisis, whether painkillers in sport is a career necessity, and the role of inflammation in healing.

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In a special children’s edition, 16-year-old Yusra and 9-year-old Falysha get Dr George Lee, Consultant Urologist and BFM’s Doctor in the House, to answer their questions about being a doctor.

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We bring the latest in health news. This week, the ethical side of medicine: Robert Mugabe's appointment as a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa, the reusing of single-use devices in Malaysian government hospitals, and Melbourne's bid to introduce safe injecting sites. 

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0:00 - Intro

1:14 - Mugabe's WHO goodwill ambassador appointment (Source: BBC)

13:27 - Melbourne's safe injecting room (Source: ABC)

22:11 - Reuse of single use device (Source: Free Malaysia Today)

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Dr George Lee returns to discuss the latest medical news. Expect deep insights delivered with generous humour. For World Antibiotic Awareness week (13-19 November), we look at how the rampant misuse of antibiotics has resulted in increasing drug resistance. According to our Director-General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, by 2050, infections by antimicrobial resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people each year worldwide, overtaking cancer. What can we do to stop this trend before we are unable to treat even simple infectious diseases?

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Most people will take thousands of steps daily with certain activities and subject their feet to forces of two to three times their body weight. Taking that into consideration, pain and even injuries to the leg are probable. Here to discuss some of the more common leg pains is Consultant General Surgeon and Vascular Surgeon Dr Khang Nan Chuang, of Sunway Medical Centre.

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Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexually harassing and assaulting more than 80 women over the course of almost two decades. On our monthly psychiatry series, Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Philip George and International Psychologist Dr Anjhula Singh Bais give us a glimpse into the minds of sexual predators, as well as the mental health impact of being sexually assaulted.

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It's normal to have some fat in your liver, but too much can become a health problem. We find out more about fatty liver and what we can do to maintain good liver health.

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