Health-e Update

  BIMC Dental Tips to Keep Gums Healthy — Keeping your teeth for the rest of your life starts by brushing properly at least twice a day using fluoride toothpaste and a soft-bristle ...

  The Skinny on Intermittent Fasting — Intermittent fasting (IF) is a weight loss approach that has been around in various forms for ages, but was highly popularized in 2012 by BBC broadcast ...

  World Breastfeeding Week: August 1-7 — According to the world Alliance of Breastfeeding Action (WABA), breastfeeding is essential to promote better health for mothers and children alike. ...

Travelling with allergies: symptom relief and management tips — Getting relief from your allergies when in Bali starts with ensuring you pack all the medications you’ll need and if your stock ...

Staying Healthy on Your Bali Vacation — Your long-awaited vacation in paradise should not mean you return home ill if you are prepared with some simple precautions during your visit.   Stomach ...

How to Prepare for Your First BIMC Appointment — New residents to Bali are tasked with reestablishing their lives and one of the first key considerations is deciding on a new doctor.  Once you’ve ...

Essential Questions For Your Travel Insurance Provider — If you’re planning a trip to Bali be sure to thoroughly go over your insurance policy with your provider to ensure you’re fully ...

The Perils of Drinking & Driving — Health-e could very well be a safety-related newsletter that focuses on one topic: the careless behavior of many visitors to Bali who drive recklessly and ...

Tips for Ageing Well in Paradise — For those looking for a foreign destination to retire, ​Bali is one of the top 10 best places worldwide to ​live, a ranking wedged between Bled, Slovenia and ...

Jet Lag Reaches New Levels Due to Longer Flights — Total visitor numbers to Bali are expected to increase by 26.3%, to 18.2 million in 2020, according to a major recent report released by Hotel ...

Preventing Tropical Cold & Flu Viruses in the Workplace — Colder climates are not the only environments where the cold and flu virus can flourish. Equatorial regions like Bali experience not ...

BIMC Hospital Nusa Dua has routinely offered hand hygiene education to schools in Jimbaran and Uluwatu, and of recent has added other awareness information such as how to properly handle medical ...

Interventional Pain Management — A report released in April by Research & Markets points out that the global opioids market size is growing at a staggering pace in Asia Pacific largely due to ...

Knee Arthroscopy at BIMC  — This past April witnessed Tiger Woods winning the Masters for the fifth time, his first since 2008. And what makes his return to prominence, at 43 years old, nothing ...

Big Tobacco Using Social Media to Lure Youth — May 31 is “World No Tobacco Day” and this year Health-e looks at how social media is helping tobacco companies hook a new generation of Indonesian ...

Jakarta Air Pollution a Major Health Concern — There is no disputing Jakarta living conditions have advanced considerably with vastly improved infrastructure, MRT trains now underway and better ...

Is Genomic Medicine for All Finally Here? — As reported in the Clinical OMICs, there is a possibility the next great transformation in healthcare started in the Queen Mary University of London. ...

The Truth About Cooking Oils — Much of Indonesian cuisine is made by goreng (fried) though if you enjoy eating locally you need to consider the oil you are consuming. The oils that are least ...

World Immunization Week: Theme: #VaccinesWork — BIMC is doing its part the week of April 24-30, which aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease saving ...

Healthy People Sleep Well — March 15 is World Sleep Day, created to raise awareness of sleep as a human privilege that is often compromised by the habits of modern life. A consistent seven to ...