Medical Updates

The year’s rainy season has witnessed a spike in dengue fever with BIMC Hospitals Bali receiving more cases than previous years. Know the facts and keep safe. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne ...

Most people traveling to the tropics will be advised to avoid mosquito bites, not just because mosquito bites are aggravating; but also because some mosquitoes are capable of carrying and ...

Alcoholic liver disease refers to a range of conditions and associated symptoms that develop when the liver becomes damaged due to alcohol misuse. Harmful drinking Harmful drinking means drinking ...

By: dr. Maria Dewi Rabies is a zoonotic disease, a disease of animals that can infect humans.  It is a serious and fatal disease.  Until recently,  there is no proven effective treatment, despite ...

Legionnaire’s Disease (LD) is an infectious respiratory and/or lung disease caused by a group of bacteria called Legionella sp., and among all of its “family members”, Legionella pneumophila is ...

Typhoid fever or Enteric fever is a systemic acute illness associated with fever and digestive problems that is most often caused by the Salmonella typhi bacteria. Typhoid fever is contracted by ...

The Importance of a Healthy Blood Pressure People who do not yet have high blood pressure at age 55 still face a 90% chance of developing high blood pressure during their lifetime. So this is a ...

Diabetes among the Elderly The age factor is very crucial in medicine. The metabolism and physical conditions change with advanced age. The elderly need special attention, especially when there ...

Critical care medicine specializes in caring for the most seriously sick or injured patients. These patients are best treated in a specialized area known as the intensive care unit (ICU) with ...

There are several ways to seek medical attention during your time in Indonesia: Hotel or home visit by a clinic, hospital or doctor General practitioner consultation Specialist consultation ...

Some types of cancer can be found before they cause symptoms. Checking for cancer (or for conditions that may lead to cancer) in people who have no symptoms is called screening. Screening can ...

An adverse reaction to a food can be the result of either food allergy or food intolerance.  Many people think these two terms mean the same thing, but they do not. A food allergy occurs when the ...

Your kidneys filter waste from your blood and also regulate other functions of your body.  Healthy kidneys clean your blood by removing excess fluid, minerals, and waste.  They also produce ...

Chickenpox, also known as varicella, is a highly contagious and self-limited infection that most commonly affects children between 5-10 years of age. The disease has a worldwide distribution and ...

The carpal tunnel syndrome is compression of the median nerve which passes through the carpal tunnel in the wrist. This is a very common syndrome mostly complained by women aged 30 to 50. The ...

Helicobacter pylori, also known as H. pylori, are a bacterium that is commonly found in the stomach. It is present in approximately one-half of the world’s population. H. pylori are ...

Appendicitis is acute inflammation of the vermiform appendix. The appendix is a small ‘dead end’ pouch, like a little tube, that comes off the caecum. The caecum is the first part of ...

Herpes simplex is a common infection caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV) which can cause a vesicular rash anywhere on the skin or mucous membranes. There are two major strains, HSV-1 and ...

Electrical injury occurs when an electric current runs through a portion of the body, usually from either a man-made source or lightning.  The outside of the person’s body may appear to have only ...

Diarrhoea is defined as the abrupt onset of abnormally high fluid content in the stool: more than the normal value of approximately 10 mL/kg/d in the infant and young child, and more than 200 g/d ...