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Chula to boost local medical research
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/02/2023
» Chulalongkorn University's Non-Human Primates Research Center (NPRCT) held its NPRCT-CCU Symposium 2023 last weekend, aimed at moving Thailand's medical research forward after the Covid-19 pandemic.
The coming storm
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 20/02/2023
» Climate change is an invisible killer. A family that lived in a hill station in India, an area known for its colder climate, took their sick child to the hospital. Nobody thought of dengue until a diagnosis confirmed it. Warmer temperatures in India and elsewhere make conditions more favourable for mosquitoes.
36 Thai evacuees return from Turkey
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/02/2023
» Thai evacuees from the earthquake in Turkey have expressed their grateful appreciation to His Majesty the King and the government of Thailand, saying the assistance offered has been beyond their expectations.
Covid set to be seasonal, expert says
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 07/02/2023
» As Covid-19 looks set to become a seasonal disease like influenza, the government should provide annual vaccinations, especially for those who are living with chronic health conditions and/or the elderly, according to a prominent virologist.
Free Covid tests for ill visitors
Post Reporters, Published on 12/01/2023
» The government is offering free Covid-19 tests to ill visitors and will vaccinate foreign tourists who request the service at “reasonable prices”, according to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Super-resistant mosquitoes in Asia pose growing threat: study
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» TOKYO - Mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other viruses have evolved growing resistance to insecticides in parts of Asia, and novel ways to control them are desperately needed, new research warns.
UN decries 'intolerable' loss of 5 million children in 2021
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday, urging health care investment in underserved communities around the globe to avoid this "immense, intolerable and mostly preventable loss of life."
Positioning Thailand as a regional hub for medical genomics
Published on 10/01/2023
» Wang Jian, Chairman & Co-founder of BGI Group, recently visited Thailand to speak to Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Prayut Chan-o-cha on January 10, 2023, and discuss medical genomics and the development of life sciences with the public sector and other organisations.
Bodies pile up at Chinese crematoriums as Covid surges
Published on 03/01/2023
» SHANGHAI: For five days the elderly Chinese woman’s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.
Why China's Covid wave is stirring fear
AFP, Published on 03/01/2023
» BEIJING - China is experiencing a huge Covid-19 surge after years of hardline containment restrictions were dismantled last month.