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    Ragtag Myanmar resistance sees tide turning in forgotten war

    Published on 21/04/2024

    » LOIKAW, Myanmar — The night Suu Kyi thought she would die of her wounds on the front lines of a forgotten war, a crescent moon hung overhead. A pendant of the Virgin Mary dangled around her neck. Maybe those augurs saved her. Or maybe, she said, it was not yet time for her to die.

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    Healthcare harnesses AI

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 18/09/2023

    » Thailand's healthcare sector is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI, to bolster the medical sector.

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    Trio spearhead sharing medical AI data

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 29/08/2023

    » The National Science and Technology Developmeny Agency (NSTDA) has teamed up with the Public Health Ministry's Department of Medical Services and Ramathibodi Hospital's Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University, to drive the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to bolster the medical sector through their project concerning medical AI data sharing.

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    Curing lung cancer

    Published on 26/05/2023

    » According to the most recent lung cancer statistics from the World Health Organisation/International Agency for Research on Cancer, globally, 2.2 million people had lung cancer in 2020, and 1.8 million passed away from it.

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    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?

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    Cancer, the on-going health crisis

    Published on 26/11/2022

    » Cancer is less of a death sentence these days and though it remains a daunting challenge in life, increasingly robust help is at hand

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    Modern radiation therapy and treatment of cancer

    Published on 22/10/2022

    » There were about 200,000 new cases of cancer in Thailand in 2020. Recent advances in the fields of surgical oncology, medical oncology, and radiation oncology have immensely improved the results of cancer treatment. Even with the best multidisciplinary treatment, in more than half of the patients, cancer will recur and require further treatment with the aim of palliation to improve the quality of life and hopefully prolong life. Radiation therapy is an important cancer treatment modality with curative intent or palliative aims. Modern advanced radiation therapy techniques make it possible to deliver high doses of radiation to the tumour while minimising the doses to surrounding normal tissue. As a result, tumour control in curative and palliative settings is far superior to that in the past.

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    Opera singer reclaims voice after being shot

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/10/2022

    » It was the most pivotal performance of his 29 years. There were no costumes, no stage, no orchestra pit. Instead, a lone pianist hunched expectantly over her instrument. For an audience, a handful of doctors and nurses watched from a cool white hospital lobby.

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    MFU Wellness Center and FUJIFILM bring medical innovation to give TB screening to people in remote areas of Chiang Rai

    Published on 06/09/2022

    » MFU Wellness Center and FUJIFILM bring medical innovation to give TB screening to people in remote areas of Chiang Rai with the aim of reducing limitations to basic healthcare services

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    Know Your Heart – Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Published on 17/05/2022

    » Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a minimally invasive procedure whereby a new valve is inserted without removing the old, diseased valve to treat severe aortic valve disease called aortic stenosis (AS). The procedure was initially developed for very high-risk patients who could not withstand major surgery, but in recent years has been extended to treat other suitable lower-risk patients as well.

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