CHIANG RAI – The number of dengue fever cases and fatalities have doubled since the middle of March, as the Thailand Disease Control Department (DDC) reports...
CHIANG RAI – Dr Kriangsak Watcharanukulkiat President of the Rural Doctors Society has reported he has found irregularities in the Public Health Ministry’s Bt147-million (S$6.3...
CHIANG RAI – Walk around a busy shopping mall anywhere in Thailand on a Saturday afternoon and you may think that this is a youthful...
BANGKOK – An Australian mother of three has been left with a gaping hole in her stomach and will spend months recovering after a tummy...
CHIANGRAI – The Public Health Ministry is warning nationwide schools to watch out for and do more against possible dengue fever spread after the new...
BANGKOK– Out of concerns for consumers’ health, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now banned food vendors and restaurants from using used cooking oils....
BANGKOK – Her employer’s brother raped her repeatedly for four months until Noi, 17, mustered the courage to press charges, but courage, she discovered, has...
BANGKOK – When Mallika told her parents she was pregnant at 17, they pulled her out of school and ordered her to marry the baby’s...
CHIANGRAI – Teaching girls to put on a condom using cucumbers as substitutes can be awkward at first. But as part of the plan, university...
CHIANGRAI – The Ministry of Public Health is promoting the use of condoms, after finding that teenagers are 3-9 times more likely to contract HIV...
CHIANGMAI – For Thailand’s estimated 2.5 million migrant workers, 2013 has new bureaucratic hurdles, and promise of a higher minimum wage beyond them. The new...
While the great majority of Thai people have experienced rapid development, millions of people, including stateless people and undocumented migrant workers, have not reaped these benefits,”...
BANGKOK – The Public Health Ministry has suspended sales of a stress-relief drug after it was used in sex crimes. Two ministerial decrees are being...
CHINA – A nine-year-old Chinese student has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth to a healthy baby boy. The unidentified girl...
BANGKOK – The Public Health Ministry on Friday met with the Thailand Anti Tobacco Committee to discuss changes to existing regulations, proposal is to increase...
BANGKOK — From breast-slapping and gold thread face-lifts, to vaginal whitening soaps and olive-oil penis enlargements, image-obsessed Thais are going to ever increasing extremes in...
BANGKOK – Department of Health deputy director-general Theerapol Topanthanont said on Monday that about one in five Thai preschoolers and one in 10 children of...
BANGKOK – The Public Health Ministry is issuing a warning against pills containing Phenazepam, which has been proven to have lethal side effects. According to...
CHIANGRAI – According to Thailand’s tobacco control expert, fifty per cent of Thai men at the age of being fathers are smokers, while new juvenile...
BANGKOK – Thailand is preparing to set up a special mechanism to implement various activities and projects in accordance with the Optional Protocol to the...