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Stray bullets
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 22/11/2016
» Maple Syrup Urine Disease. Gaucher Disease. Prader-Willy Syndrome. Pompe Disease. Angelman Syndrome.
Keeping sugar levels in check
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 08/11/2016
» Like several other lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes is no longer the sickness of Westerners. In Asia, its prevalence has constantly been on the rise.
In pursuit of cancer
Muse, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 15/10/2016
» Sudjit Luanpitpong is a biological scientist who does not look like a biological scientist. First, she is young and carefree. And second, she doesn't look like a nerd. But once she begins to explain her research project, she talks pure science.
The healing hand
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/10/2016
» Renowned surgeon Assoc Prof Dr Kris Chatamra and his wife Khunying Finola Chatamra have been working for over two decades for a better life for breast-cancer patients living in Thailand's slums. What both have seen served as the starting point for Dr Kris's project.
Virus message must go viral
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 12/09/2016
» When the mosquito-borne Zika virus recently wreacked havoc in many South American countries, especially hardest-hit Brazil, the world broke out in a cold sweat given the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games was about to take place.
Taking it in stride
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/09/2016
» Running isn't just a new fad. Medical practitioners all say the same thing: running is also medicine.
The internet of myths
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 30/08/2016
» People say eating Thai-style omelettes can cure cancer and so can lemonade. They also say pricking the fingertips of brain haemorrhage victims to release blood can save their lives and should be done even before sending them to the hospital. When bitten by a snake, rumour has it that using herbs to detoxify the blood is a sure-fire solution.
Right man for the job
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 01/08/2016
» From a farang-looking showbiz sweetheart who starred in a soap opera, television commercials and music videos 17 years back, today Christopher Benjakul is selling bread.
The way into the world
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 05/07/2016
» Many times when celebrities give birth to their babies, it makes headlines, though it usually reads just like any other breaking news. But whenever a celebrity's delivery has a health message to convey, that's probably a successful public-awareness raiser.
Are dietary supplements safe?
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 05/07/2016
» The Thai tropical plant ma mui, or Mucuna pruriens, was on the public radar last year after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha urged farmers to grow them instead of rice to cope with drought. The herb recently made newspaper headline again when a 21-year-old woman in the southern province of Trang was found dead earlier this month after taking four capsules of ma mui supplements -- samples she received after becoming a member of a direct-sale business selling the supplement product.