COVID-19 vaccination for children in Malaysia - A position statement by the College of Paediatrics, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia.

The availability of COVID-19 vaccines and mass vaccination programmes in adults have significantly reduced the case attack rates and disease burden. COVID-19 vaccination successfully decreases the population at risk of infection, allowing for the safer re-opening of economies and reducing the pandemic's crippling impact on healthcare systems. However, the rapidly mutating severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 poses challenges in diminishing vaccine-induced immunity and vaccinating a significant proportion of adults to achieve herd immunity.

Hypertensive retinopathy and sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: To determine the correlation between hypertensive retinopathy (which is the end-organ damage of the vessels due to chronic hypertension) with sensorineural hearing loss.

Methods: Pure tone hearing threshold of 56 hypertensive patients were compared with 56 normal age and sex matched control. Comparisons of pure tone hearing threshold are made among different group (grade) of hypertensive retinopathy patients and control (non-hypertensive patients).

Severity of visual impairment and depression among elderly Malaysians.

Objective: This study aimed at evaluating the relationship between severity of visual impairment and depression among elderly Malaysians attending an eye clinic.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The study population included patients, aged>or=60 years who attended the Eye Clinic in University Malaya Medical Centre.

Changing habits and attitudes towards smoking among future physicians.

This study was conducted to asses the future physicians' habits, knowledge and attitude towards smoking. These factors influence the credibility of future Malaysian physicians as advocators and treatment providers. A cross sectional study was carried out among medical students at the Medical Faculty, University Malaya.

Relationship between reproductive exposures and age-related cataract in women.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between reproductive exposures and age-related cataract among women. This was a hospital based case-control study. The study population included female patients, aged 50 years and above who attended the Eye clinic at the University of Malaya Medical Centre.

The association between body mass index and age related cataract.

This study was carried out to determine the association between body mass index and age related cataract among patients attending eye clinic. We conducted a case control study. The outcome of clinical eye assessment determined the patient's status.