BANGKOK – Thailand’s Pharmacy Council has asked the national committee on hazardous substances to ban two herbicides, paraquat and glyphosate, and the pesticide chlorpyrifos before year’s...
CARACAS, Venezuela – Doctors in scrubs, businessmen in suits and construction workers in jeans gathered on the streets of Venezuela’s capital Wednesday, waving their nation’s...
SURAT THANI – Agama Yoga one of the world’s biggest Tantric yoga school, located on the Thai island of Koh Phangan, Thailand, that closed after...
Should healthy people take aspirin to ward off heart disease? The notion has been controversial, and the medical advice mixed. But a review of scientific...
BANGKOK – Thailand is set to become the first Asian country to legalese medical marijuana, but a battle is brewing between local and foreign firms...
UDON THANI – A 33-year-old woman in Udon Thani is accusing a Hospital of stealing her kidney during surgery to remove her womb and ovaries...
CHONBURI – Police investigators in the resort town of Pattaya have confirmed a Norwegian man found hanging from a condominium rooftop on Wednesday had committed suicide,...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s legislature the National Legislative Assembly’s (NLA) has officially proposed allowing the licensed medical use of marijuana, making it a potential trailblazer in Asia...
MAE HONG SON – For hill tribes people in the far-flung villages of northernmost Mae Hong Son, getting even basic medical help can be a hard...
GENEVA – The World Health Organization said in a recent report that drinking too much alcohol killed more than 3 million people in 2016, mostly men....
LONDON – Life expectancy in Europe continues to increase but obesity and the growing proportion of people who are overweight risks reversing this trend, the...
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has seized rhinoceros horns worth nearly $12 million bound for Vietnam, the Southeast Asian nation’s largest haul of such contraband, officials...
SHANGHAI – Two more Chinese drug makers have announced that a blood-pressure medication they exported to Taiwan contained a potentially cancer-causing impurity, a month after...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) has invited people to undergo hepatitis B and C screening for free at 83 public hospitals across...
SHANGHAI – A vaccine scandal in China, which has prompted angry reactions from citizens fed up with safety scares, is sending ripples across the local...
BANGKOK – Thailand, known for its tough policies against drug trafficking, is taking a page from Canada and other countries and is seeking to lead the...
A new study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has suggested that eating beef jerky and other processed meats may lead to manic episodes. The research...
NEW YORK – Talcum Powder Giant Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women and their families who had claimed that...
CHIANG RAI – You may have heard the words “self-care” a lot lately as a lifestyle and wellness topic and wonder what the fuss is about...
Everyone experiences some sickness from time to time, and usually we have remedies on hand to help ourselves get better. But while we all know...