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Health dept urges premarital checkups
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/02/2026
» The Department of Health has urged couples to undergo medical check-ups before marriage, as early screening can prevent babies from being infected with sexually transmitted diseases.
Early Detection Key as Samitivej Pioneers GAAD Screening
Published on 16/01/2026
» Liver cancer remains one of Thailand’s most pressing public health challenges, yet few realise how silently and rapidly it develops. According to Prof. Teerha Piratvisuth, M.D., Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital and President of the Gastroenterological Association of Thailand, liver cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Thailand, but it can often be prevented or treated successfully if detected early.
Case for SET reform
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/12/2025
» Re: "Thai bourse seeks to jump start growth", (Business, Dec 6).
US panel scraps hepatitis B vaccine guidance for newborns
Published on 06/12/2025
» WASHINGTON - US vaccine advisers have scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains.
Three escaped research monkeys at large after US crash
Online Reporters, Published on 30/10/2025
» JASPER COUNTY, Mississippi — Several rhesus monkeys escaped after a truck transporting them overturned on a highway in this southern US state, with three still reported to be at large as of Wednesday.
Paracetamol in pregnancy not linked to autism, Hong Kong says after Trump's claims
South China Morning Post, Published on 26/09/2025
» HONG KONG — Paracetamol use during pregnancy will not lead to autism in children, Hong Kong health authorities have stressed, in an apparent rejection of US President Donald Trump's recent claims of a possible link.
Terminal volunteers can save lives
News, Published on 13/09/2025
» At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), a programme called Last Gift offers terminally ill patients the opportunity to help create more effective treatments. Their special circumstances transform the usual risk-benefit calculus of joining a clinical study of an untested drug. Researchers can ask them to consider consenting to being research participants in ways that they would not ask healthier people with long life expectancies, and terminally ill patients may choose to give that consent when others would be less likely to do so.
Supreme Court jails Thaksin for one year, rejects illness claims
Online Reporters, Published on 09/09/2025
» The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning ordered Thaksin Shinawatra to actually serve the year's imprisonment to which he was sentenced two years ago, rejecting his prolonged stay in hospital as part of his sentence.
People want change
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/09/2025
» Re: "Most Thais want parliament dissolved immediately, charter change: poll", (BP, Sept 7).
China's offensives
Postbag, Published on 07/09/2025
» Re: "China's lessons from WWII endure", (Opinion, Sept 2).