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The race for an HIV vaccine
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 01/12/2021
» Thailand has come a long way since Dec 1, 1988, was dedicated as Aids awareness day. Last year, there were close to 500,000 HIV cases in the country, while UNAids reported approximately 37.6 million HIV cases globally.
Double jeopardy
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 11/05/2020
» Despite a steady decline in new coronavirus cases in Thailand, the country still sees a concern with regard to possible infections in prisons.
Less is more
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 12/04/2016
» American researcher James R. Mitchell, associate professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, runs a lab with the primary goal of understanding how nutrition affects longevity and health.
And the Prince Mahidol Award Laureate goes to...
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 09/02/2016
» For cardiologist, inventor and researcher Prof Morton Mower, being picked as the 2015 Prince Mahidol Award Laureate in the field of medicine has been a momentous moment for the American who invented the Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) device and co-invented the Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD), a small device that is placed in the chest to help treat irregular heartbeats.