CHIANGRAI TIMES – Phetsuwan Mineral Water started up with Buddhism beliefs when a well-known abbot in Phetchaburi pointed out a water source in Chiang Rai’s...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – We’re already a massage “hub”; we’ve hot-springs and spas, lots of good clinics (skin, dental, cosmetic, you name it), the best weather...
CHIANGRAI TIMES- Thailand has said that visitors to the country do not need to be concerned about health risks related to the recent flood. The...
Thailand has been praised as a rare success story in the war against AIDs. But for Michael Hahn, UNAID’s coordinator in Thailand, it’s an old...
Poor sanitation and garbage disposal in Bangkok’s flood-hit communities could result in an outbreak of leptospirosis, a health expert has warned. Sumet Ongwandee of the...
Thai officials said half of the millions of cubic metres of floodwaters had flowed into the sea but another 11 days were still required before...
Fond of reading and performing well at school, 16-year-old Manee should be a carefree high school girl in her hometown in Chiang Rai province. But...
Authorities grappling with Thailand’s worst flooding in decades are now facing the potential spread of disease as contaminated waters spread deeper into Bangkok. Aid workers say...
Fears have been raised that snakes, crocodiles and disease could threaten locals and tourists as Thailand battles continually rising floodwaters. The main river coursing through...
It is rumored that Thailand is actually considering legislation that would make it less complicated for both Thais and foreigners to sue for medical malpractice....
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said in June it had to close two projects, which it said treated around 55,000 mainly Burmese unregistered migrants....
Bangkok, Thailand – I have vivid memories of treating patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the nascency of the pandemic in the 1990s. Mostly...
Thailand’s rivers are being increasingly polluted by industrial waste-water and solid waste dumping, but activists and residents say the Thai government has no clear strategy for...
Maikaew Panomyai did a little dance coming out of the examination room, switching her hips, waving her fists in the air and crowing, in her...
Hopes that dengue fever may one day be eradicated have been raised by scientists who have discovered how to stop mosquitoes carrying the disease. Groundbreaking...
Interestingly, Meechai Viravaidya, the family planning and anti-HIV-AIDS activist who received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994, answers the same question with the same story....
The National Vaccine Commission asked the government to approve a Bt 5 million plan to develop and produce a vaccine against the seven deadly diseases: dengue...
Along with millions of other schoolchildren in Thailand, Supattra Sasuphan has just been issued with her national ID card. But this 11-year-old, also known as Nong...
The drug telaprevir (Incivek) offers a marked improvement in the treatment of most common form of hepatitis C infection, according to an international team of researchers...
Villagers in this poverty-stricken farming communities are passionate about their food, especially the traditional varieties of fermented fish that one aficionado describes as tasting like...
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