KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 -- Seven medical groups and a Sabah-based general practitioner have filed for judicial review of a government order requiring private clinics to display retail medicine prices, arguing it exceeds ministerial powers and threatens professional medical practice.

The judicial review was filed in the Kuala Lumpur High Court last Thursday by the Association of Private Practitioners, Sabah (APPS), the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), the Malaysian Association for the Advancement of Functional and Interdisciplinary Medicine (Maafim), the Organisation of Malaysian Muslim Doctors (Perdim), the Federation of Private Medical Practitioners Associations Malaysia (FPMPAM), the Malaysian Private Dental Practitioners' Associatio...