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UNICEF aims to cut infant death rate
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/01/2018
» About 1,886 babies are due to be born in Thailand today, accounting for 0.49% of the estimated 385,793 newborns globally on New Year's Day, Unicef said yesterday.
Disease alert sounds after rotavirus kills 4
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/01/2018
» Around 1 million Thais were infected by rotavirus infections last year and four people died, including three young children, the Disease Control Department said yesterday.
Not just kids' stuff
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 23/01/2018
» Some diseases are branded as a threat only among children. The rotavirus infection is one of them. With statistics worldwide finding rotavirus responsible for 50% of diarrhoea cases in young children, we somehow underestimate the consequences it might bring to our entire population.
Menace of drug resistance growing
News, Published on 01/02/2018
» This week the Prince Mahidol Awards conference will bring a global spotlight to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. The growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will feature prominently in these discussions. The timing could not be better, but we urgently need to see more action on the part of the UN Interagency Coordination Group on AMR and key intergovernmental agencies gathering in Bangkok.
Prince Mahidol awards honour genome work
News, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 01/02/2018
» Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, representing His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, yesterday conferred the 2017 Prince Mahidol Award on laureates at the Chakri Throne Hall inside the Grand Palace.
Anti-dengue vaccine 'may be connected to three deaths'
Reuters, Published on 02/02/2018
» MANILA: The Philippines said on Friday the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia may be connected to three deaths in the country, according to a government-ordered inquiry, and that the drug is not ready for mass immunisation.
Meat eating linked to drug resistance
News, Om Jotikasthira, Published on 03/02/2018
» Up to 38,000 lives are being lost annually in Thailand from the consumption of meat contaminated with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria that leads to drug resistance in humans, experts in the commercial livestock industry have said.
Period pain: India tackles menstruation taboos
Asia focus, Published on 05/02/2018
» Sumitra Devi, 29, becomes bashful when she has to talk about menstruation.
No longer medical sci-fi
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/02/2018
» Imagine a world without cancer, HIV, flu or diabetes. Humans somehow strive for such a utopia but no one can say if it's near, or even possible.
Indian fake doctor infects 21 with HIV with tainted syringes
Associated Press, Published on 06/02/2018
» LUCKNOW, India: A fake doctor treating poor villagers in northern India for colds, coughs and diarrhoea has infected at least 21 of them with HIV by using contaminated syringes and needles, a health official said Tuesday.