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No longer one-size-fits-all
Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 01/08/2019
» Personalisation and gene-level healthcare is becoming a mantra for healthy living of today and this trend is certainly here to stay
No longer one-size-fits-all
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 01/08/2019
» When it comes to healthcare of today, it seems taking tablets of over-the-counter vitamins or drinking eight glasses of water a day is no longer adequate. To live healthily in this 21st century, doctors and the health conscious alike have put more focus on personalisation which will definitely be here to stay.
Designer babies
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 08/01/2019
» Twin girls Lulu and Nana are no ordinary children. Claimed as the world's first gene-edited babies, they quickly came under the global spotlight from the moment they came into this world. Now they are being received with great interest and curiosity among not just doctors and scientists but also many people around the world. Even the World Health Organisation (WHO) had to set up a special panel to look at the technique through which the twins were conceived.
Warts and all
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 17/12/2018
» Celebrated: The coming legalisation of medical cannabis
Hope on the horizon
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 22/05/2018
» Life can be very complicated for patients falling victim to thalassaemia. First, the inherited blood disorder leads to anaemia so patients require very frequent blood transfusions for the rest of their lives -- an expense of around 10 million baht through the age of 30.
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.