CHIANG RAI – The dengue outbreak, which has been surging sharply in Thailand during the current rainy season, is feared to strike 120,000 cases for...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand currently records about three million diabetes patients with 21 deaths daily, according the public health ministry. Public Health Minister Pradit Sintavanarong...
BANGKOK – Public Health Minister Pradit Sintavanarong insisted that the latest Thai tobacco regulation which requires 85 per cent of space on cigarette packets dedicated...
CHIANG RAI – The Thai government plans to issue a new regulation requiring foreign tourists to buy travel and health insurance before arriving in Thailand....
CHIANG RAI – Nearly 49,000 people in Thailand have been infected with dengue virus, 59 of whom died, Thai National News Bureau reported Friday....
BANGKOK – The regular use of AIDS drug ‘Tenofovir’ can help reduce the risk of HIV infection among injecting drug users, according to research conducted by...
BANGKOK – Thailand is heading for a record-breaking number of dengue fever cases in 2013, with 44 people dead already from the mosquito-transmitted virus already....
BANGKOK — Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating. The United Nations’...
KUALA LUMPUR – Many smokers, especially among working women, still believe the myth that smoking can really help them to stay slim, according to the...
CHIANG RAI – The Public Health Ministry is expressing worries over the threat of cervical cancer Thai women have been increasingly facing. Deputy Public Health Minister...
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...