


By: Yan Mardian Every 18 April the National Diabetes Day (or Hari Diabetes Nasional) is celebrated in Indonesia. This campaign is led by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and is intended to increase the awareness of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or
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By: Aly Diana A biobank is a biorepository that accepts, processes, stores, and distributes biospecimens and associated data for use in research and clinical care. The field of biobanking has changed tremendously over the past thirty years. It started with small, predominantly university-based repositories developed for the research needs of specific projects. They gradually evolved
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Indonesia is currently suffering from the third wave of COVID-19 infection, predominantly due to the Omicron strain. First detected in Indonesia at the end of November 2021, it has rapidly spread, creating a more enormous wave than the Delta variant surge in mid-2021, peaking at 64,718 new cases per day on 16 February 2022. Despite
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