Dr George Lee returns to discuss the latest medical news. Expect deep insights delivered with generous humour. Over the weekend, Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong fainted as he was delivering a speech during a National Day rally. After about 20 minutes, Lee returned to the stage to finish his speech but not before saying he’s never had so many doctors look at him at once. So what is it like to provide medical care to a VIP? And is it fair that they get “so many doctors” attending to them at once, while the rest of us have to deal with the standard bureaucracy of paperwork, protocol, waiting list and questionable bedside manners?

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Researchers have finally found a way to make people smarter, but it's not pleasant. How is electrical stimulation used to boost certain cognitive functions? What are the risks of doing it yourself with home kits? Neuroscientist Prof Dato' Dr Jafri Abdullah gets to the heart of the matter.

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When kidney failure is diagnosed, you could have a range of emotional responses -- disbelief, fear, anger, all of the above. It is completely normal to be worried about what the diagnosis will mean to you or your loved one, and the changes that will occur in the body and to your lifestyle. But here to help us have some idea of what to expect is the President of the Malaysian Society of Nephrology and Senior Consultant Nephrologist, Prof Dr Goh Bak Leong.

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Breathing comes to us naturally. We don’t need to think about the way we breathe, and yet our breathing patterns may give us insight into how we’re feeling at a particular moment. Today we have on the show Dr Chua Sook Ning, Consultant Psychologist, to tell us more about how breathing affects our emotional state and vice versa.

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Too many young people face barriers to reproductive health information and care. Dr Lavitha Sivapatham specialises in reproductive health of young girls so that they can make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and rights in their adolescence and adulthood.

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Dr George Lee returns to discuss the latest medical news. Expect deep insights delivered with generous humour. Dr Helena Lim joins him this week to discuss period-tracking apps and whether it makes her work as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist easier, or more difficult.

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A unique way to kill cancer cells with minimal damage to surrounding tissue --that’s what nuclear medicine can offer to cancer patients. Dr Heng Siew Ping and Ng Yee Lian from the Nuclear Medicine Centre at Sunway Medical Centre is in the studio to explain further their role in cancer care as a medical physicist and a nuclear pharmacist respectively.

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How does ageing affects sexual health? What are normal changes? Consultant Rehabilitation Physician Dr Intan Sabrina discusses the often overlooked yet critical element of the later life: sexuality. 

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Back in June, Professor Nigel Hunt from the Royal College of Surgeons of England said in a speech that a culture of eating sugary foods at work was fuelling obesity and dental problems in the UK. Since we also have plenty of sweet treats and festive seasons in Malaysia, we asked on the show Dr Chow Kai Foo, Dental Surgeon and President of the Malaysian Dental Association, to find out if office cake culture and our love affair with food is affecting our oral health.

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There's a reason Hepatitis C has been dubbed the 'silent disease'. Hepatitis C can be 30 times more infectious than HIV, most of the 130 million people globally with chronic Hep C don't know that they are infected -- until it's too late. 

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