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Consumer advocates urge crackdown on false adverts
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 06/11/2014
» Consumer groups are urging state authorities to clamp down on exaggerated radio adverts for health products, which are still rampant in many parts of the country.
4 drugs join low-cost scheme
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 06/08/2014
» Four expensive medicines for breast cancer, hepatitis C and leukemia have been added to the national drug lists.
Anti-tobacco critics to carry on label fight
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/08/2013
» Anti-smoking groups have vowed to seek international support for the push to enlarge health warning labels on cigarette packages.
Study blasts overzealous health tests
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/08/2013
» Most people want to live a long, healthy life and hope the same for their loved ones. That is why enormous amounts are spent on health check-up programmes.
Alarm bells sound over oil spill dispersant use
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 31/07/2013
» Experts are worried the chemical dispersants being used in the oil spill clean-up operation in Rayong province could cause environmental damage.
State hospitals to offer free hepatitis tests
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/07/2013
» State-owned hospitals nationwide will offer free hepatitis B virus (HBV) rapid tests next week to mark World Hepatitis Day, which falls today.
Rural doctors abandon pay protest
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 31/05/2013
» The Rural Doctors Society (RDS) and its allies have decided to scrap the rally they had planned for next Thursday.
Suranand to hear out RDS grievances
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/05/2013
» Prime Minister's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva will hold a discussion with representatives of the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) Thursday, a week before the group's planned mass rally in front of the premier's house.
GPO labour union joins protest to topple Pradit
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 29/05/2013
» The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation's (GPO) labour union plans to join a protest in front of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's house next Thursday.
Mongkol blasts both sides in pay dispute
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/04/2013
» A former public health minister has called on rural doctors and the Public Health Ministry to hold talks to iron out their differences over the pay-for-performance (P4P) scheme.