In this BFM monthly open clinic segment, consultant respiratory physician Dr Helmy Haja Mydin is here to answer your questions about the lungs.

The booster program has started in earnest to as vaccine efficacy wanes over time. We ask Dr. Helmy Haja Mydin, Consultant Respiratory Physician about the program, whether mixing and matching vaccines is the right approach and what are the risks, if any

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin is planning to table a new Tobacco and Smoking Control Act in the upcoming Parliament session in replacement of the old and some of the proposed measures of the legislation is to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products including vape and e-cigarettes to people born after 2005. But will this be effective? Dr. Helmy Haja Mydin, consultant respiratory physician and newly appointed technical advisor to the Ministry of Health on the tobacco & smoking legislation shares his thoughts.

Asthma affects people of all ages, but usually starts during childhood. It affects around a quarter of all children and up to15% of adults in Malaysia but only 40% of them feel that their asthma is well-controlled.