Public Health

MMSA HealthFest 2013 in collaboration with Cardiosteroil®

Apr 11, 13

Posted in General, Notices, Public Health, Standing Committees

The MMSA’s most highly anticipated event of the year is back with a bang! HealthFest 2013 kicks off on Friday 12th April, with the scope of this year’s edition focusing on how to “prevent rather than cure” via a series of events which will be held as follows: Thursday 11th – Friday 12th April: Blood Mobile Unit,...

Eating Disorders Awareness Campaign

Mar 11, 13

Posted in General, Notices, Public Health, Standing Committees

One does not normally spend that much time thinking about the food we eat and yet people with eating disorders think obsessively about their meals. This is a sad, common reality, which is why the Malta Medical Students’ Association (MMSA) is organising an Eating Disorders Awareness Campaign on Wednesday, 13th March 2013. A...

The MMSA Anti-Tobacco Campaign in collaboration with MADS

Mar 04, 13

Posted in General, Notices, Public Health, Standing Committees

The public is nowadays well informed on the effects of smoking on a person’s health and lifestyle, however this practice still remains common and smoking continues to be the largest single cause of preventable death and disease in the EU. Seven out of ten smokers want to quit smoking for health reasons. About half state that...

Organ Donation Seminar

Feb 07, 13

Posted in General, Medical Education, Notices, Public Health, Standing Committees

Following an advert issued last year on a local online shopping site, where a woman begged for a kidney for her former partner against payment, a lot of questions were raised. Organ donation is a very hot topic in Malta with a lot of grey areas that surely need to be addressed. Have you ever asked what the system entails and what...

MMSA-MHSA Healthy Lifestyles Seminar

Dec 20, 12

Posted in General, Medical Education, Notices, Public Health, Standing Committees

MMSA-SCOPH is proud to announce its first collaboratory seminar for the 2012-2013 term: the MMSA-MHSA Healthy Lifestyles Seminar, which will be taking place on Thursday 20th December in Central Auditorium, Ma buy cheap zithromax no prescription ter Dei at 16:30. The seminar is aimed at safeguarding our health and will be showing...