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‘Gold card’ healthcare now covers cancer patients’ transport costs
Online Reporters, Published on 17/07/2025
» Free transport services are now available to cancer patients seeking certain advanced treatments under Thailand’s universal healthcare programme, the government has announced.
It'll take more than patriotism to save the ringgit
News, Daniel Moss, Published on 28/03/2024
» Malaysia wants to be great again, at least in foreign exchange. The nation's currency recently approached a level seen as near-catastrophic during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Authorities insist the ringgit is way too cheap and blame forces outside the country, chiefly high interest rates in the US. The remedies are modest, compared with the shock therapy meted out a couple of decades ago.
Access improves to smoking cessation drug
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 04/02/2024
» A smoking cessation drug, Cytisine, has been included in Thailand's list of essential medicines. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aims to make the drug accessible to all who need help quitting smoking, to cut the risk of lung cancer.
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
“HOT MEDICAL CARE INNOVATIONS”
Published on 24/01/2020
» Mahatma Gandhi once said: “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” Given how true his statement is, Forbes Thailand & TISCO Wealth Dinner Talk 2020, held on January 13, at The Athenee Hotel, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok, took “Medical Care Innovations: Fighting Cancer, Heart Disease, and Alzheimer’s” as its theme.
Parents of terminally ill UK toddler launch new legal bid
AFP, Published on 25/04/2018
» LONDON - The parents of terminally ill British boy Alfie Evans were to appeal Wednesday a decision preventing them from going to Rome for treatment following high-profile interventions in the case from Pope Francis and the Italian government.
Seeking the truth in Ashya King's story
News, Published on 08/09/2014
» A British boy is dying of a brain tumour. His distressed parents discover a life-saving treatment, available only in another country. Heartless doctors refuse to refer the child to the foreign clinic. Instead, they insist on going ahead with conventional treatment which, the parents fear, will turn him into a "vegetable". The distraught parents seize their son from the hospital and take him abroad. The UK authorities overreact wildly, issuing an international alert for the family. The parents are found in Spain and arrested, causing an outcry and interventions from leading politicians.
Ashya King's parents reunited with cancer-stricken son
AFP, Published on 03/09/2014
» The British parents jailed after taking their critically-ill son Ashya King from hospital enjoyed an emotional reunion with him at his bedside in Spain on Wednesday, an official said.
Parents of tumour boy held in Spain as sympathy grows
AFP, Published on 02/09/2014
» A Spanish judge on Monday extended the detention of a British couple arrested for taking their seriously ill son out of a hospital in England without medical consent, as sympathy for their situation grew at home.
Body Shape: Change it with nutrition and exercise
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/05/2011
» Your bones, muscles and, most importantly, your fat determine your shape and how you appear to other people.