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Flu shot may help prevent heart attacks
Life, Published on 30/04/2024
» DEAR DOCTORS: I can't stop thinking about what my doctor said when I got my flu shot last fall. I'm a 55-year-old man, and I have a history of high blood pressure. He said the flu shot will give me extra protection against having a heart attack. What is the connection?
England faces record-breaking doctors’ strike
Published on 03/01/2024
» LONDON - Junior doctors in England started a six-day walkout over pay on Wednesday, the longest strike in the 75-year history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS), which will hit patient care during a seasonal peak in demand.
Flu Strikes 1 Million Thais Annually: Urgent Vaccination Needed
Published on 20/11/2023
» According to a 2023 report from Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, over 300,000 Thai people were infected with influenza. Specialists believe probably one million people annually come down with the flu due to year-round occurrence. Moreover, unvaccinated people are at greater risk of recurring flu infection and the elderly are susceptible to flu-related severe illness or deaths because comorbidities can complicate their symptoms. The Influenza Foundation (Thailand) calls on the Thai Government to increasing offer free flu shot to people over 65 years of age and expand free flu vaccination to cover more school children who are likely to spread the disease. The flu vaccine is worth this investment and has been recognised as a cost-effective preventive measure for over 80 years.
Lethal bat-borne virus sparks new pandemic fears
Published on 30/10/2023
» MARUTHONKARA, India: It was more than two weeks before doctors even realised what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds of people had been exposed to the bat pathogen.
Flu guidelines aim to curb waves among at-risk groups
Post Reporters, Published on 03/10/2023
» The Department of Medical Services has issued guidelines for treating patients with mild or severe influenza symptoms.
Flu spike prompts warning
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/09/2023
» The Public Health Ministry is warning that many respiratory diseases are spreading during the rainy season, especially influenza, with a higher patient rate than last year, said Dr Opas Kankawinpong, the ministry's permanent secretary.
What's bugging travellers now?
Business, Published on 02/08/2023
» 'Covid, Schmovid," people seem to be saying these days. Travellers insouciantly scamper from board meetings to trade shows to weddings to party the nights away. It is good to see cities stirring and travel bustle returning.
PM sounds alarm on Covid's resurgence
News, Published on 28/04/2023
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed health authorities in major tourism destinations to closely monitor the number of Covid-19 cases in their area as the number of new infections continues to surge after the holidays.
Many with walking pneumonia don't realise they're sick
Life, Published on 25/04/2023
» DEAR DOCTORS: My wife and I both had Covid-19. I recovered, but my wife kept feeling sick. We worried it might be long Covid. But when she saw her doctor, she got diagnosed with walking pneumonia. She took antibiotics and got better. How is walking pneumonia different from regular pneumonia?
Covid surges after Songkran
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/04/2023
» The number of Covid-19 inpatients and Covid-related deaths rose by 150% last week over the previous seven days in the wake of the Songkran celebrations ending on April 15.