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Hope on the Horizon
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 31/01/2012
» Seventy-year-old Don Wright doesn't believe in giving up without a fight. Since being diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM), also known as myeloma, eight years ago, he has become a beacon of light for patients battling the crippling cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow. While no exact cause has been found to lead to this disease, it does primarily affect elderly folks. The median age of diagnosis is roughly 70 years.
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Help from the Heart
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 18/10/2012
» It started with concern about the alarming rise in the number of female breast cancer patients four years ago, and the campaign by Sabina has continued to grow ever since.
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Mental Matters
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 04/12/2012
» Sometimes it goes beyond stress and pressure into the darker realm of clinical condition. Economic instability, political uncertainty, a thirst for materialism, personal history, the breakneck social competition _ all this, and more, contributes to the increasing number of people suffering from mental health disorders.
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No need to suffer in silance
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 23/07/2013
» After having worked in the private sector for most of her life, Achara Bunnag found her true calling when she went back to school 13 years ago to do a degree in psychology. Today she is a senior psychotherapist at Manarom Hospital and seems perfectly suited to the profession, her humble demeanour and emphatic nature making her a natural fit with clients and new acquaintances alike.
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In the swim of things
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 30/10/2013
» Motivational speaker Maarten van der Weijden speaks from the heart when he says medicine was the only thing that helped him fight leukaemia and that his winning of a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, while recuperating from one of the most deadly forms of cancer, could not be attributed to a case of "mind over matter".
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On the road
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 13/05/2014
» Beads of sweat trickle down Pawanrat Mongpet’s pallid face as she works her way through the packed passengers on the BMTA No.47 bus, to finally reach the last free standing space.
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Helping hands
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 17/06/2014
» The piercing of the skin with needles, massage and the aligning of the bones is part and parcel of what Portuguese-born Dr Luis Filipe, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), uses to restore the sick to health.
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Overcoming the depths of depression
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 18/11/2014
» Not in her wildest dreams did Saitong Sittieansak, a volunteer mental health social worker in Nonthaburi’s Khlong Phra Udom Pak Kret community, see herself suffering the same emotional traumas as the very people she has helped through the years.
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Beutler is not immune to victory
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/02/2015
» Before American immunologist Bruce Beutler was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity", he had to make personal sacrifices.
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Finding the bright side
Muse, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/10/2015
» Despite her uphill battle with cancer for four years, Tavivalaya “Mikki” Meksawan radiates with positive energy. So much so that it makes it difficult to find anything physically wrong with her at first glance.
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