February 2023 - IRIS : International Review of Interdisciplinary Sciences

Factors Affecting Poor Performance Among First Year Medical Students: A Qualitative Survey

shahman Research 21 February 20237 April 2023

Rafidah Bahari, Norfaizatul Shalida Omar and Atikah Abdul Latiff

Faculty of Medicine, University of Cyberjaya, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

*Corresponding author email: rafidahbahari@cyberjaya.edu.my

ABSTRACT

Introduction: First Year MBBS students usually face a difficult time adjusting to the tough medical curriculum eve without the pandemic. Recently in the University of Cyberjaya, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of students performing poorly at the recent Year 1 end of course examinations.

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices towards Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever among Pharmacy Students in University of Cyberjaya

shahman Research 21 February 20237 April 2023

.Zainol Akbar Zainal, Nurul Adilla Hayat@Jamaluddin, Fariza Fadzil and Nurul Ain Natasha Shah Rizan

Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Cyberjaya, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Family Health Development Division, Ministry of Health, Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya, Malaysia

Pharmacy Department, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

*Corresponding author email: zainol.akbar@cyberjaya.edu.my

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Dengue is one of the leading public health concerns in Malaysia which could lead to health complications and fatalities. Selangor has had the highest cases of dengue for the past few years. Up until June 2022, Sepang was reported as the district with 5th highest dengue cases in Selangor.

Effectiveness of Good Storage Practices Implementation in IMARET Warehouse

shahman Research 20 February 20237 April 2023

Zakuan Kamil Khazali, Ahmad Rashidi Mohamed Tahir and Aina Yazrin Ali Nasiruddin

Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Cyberjaya (UoC), Cyberjaya, 63000, Selangor, Malaysia

Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia (IMAM) Response an Relief Team (IMARET), 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

*Corresponding author email: rashidi@cyberjaya.edu.my

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Good storage practice (GSP) is one of the guidelines that needs to be implemented in a pharmaceuticalbased warehouse to ensure the safety, efficacy and quality of pharmaceutical products stored as well as inventory movement. Globally, World Health Organisation (WHO) has established their Annex 9 World Health Organisation Guide to Good Storage Practices for Pharmaceutical Products to be adopted and adapted by local authority of each country. In Malaysia, National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) is the local authority under Ministry of Health Malaysia has established local Good Distribution Practice Guidelines that includes the GSP elements based on the guideline from the WHO guideline.

Biopharmaceutics: A Review of Monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs)

shahman Research, Review 19 February 202318 October 2024

Zainol Akhbar Zainal

Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Cyberjaya, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Introduction
The existence of pathogens are detected by the immune system’s components when the immune cells mobilized to the site of an infection. The function of immune system is to recognize the nature of pathogen, its strength for interrelated cells and molecule for combating it efficiently (Alberts et al., 2002). Pathogens can be remembered by immune system to which it has been exposed one time, can create a more efficient response when its re-exposure occurs. For survival against pathogens, necessary things are, Pathogen recognition, specific immune response, its power of amplification, its withdrawal and recalling. It can classify into two parts as either innate immune system and adaptive immune system. Innate immune system is always present in the body and it protects human body against all pathogens without specialization on particular pathogen, while adaptive immune response stores information about infections occurred in past and it provides pathogen specific defence to the body (Lu et al., 2020)