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No Thatcher, is she
Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/07/2025
» Re: "Wartime requires a prime minister with full authority, (InQuote, July 25).
Cancer patients are dying to survive
News, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 07/02/2025
» As a university law lecturer, Nat is struggling to make ends meet. Her monthly salary of 33,000 baht is only a fraction of the cost of the super-expensive cancer drug she has been taking.
Raise your game
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/01/2025
» Re: "Proactive politics", (PostBag, Dec 28).
I never panic, but I'm panicking now
Oped, Lydia Polgreen, Published on 23/11/2024
» For over a month now, my mother has been pestering me about her missing passport. It was in her closet, she said, and suddenly it was gone. It was expired, and renewing would be easier if she had the old one. She had no immediate travel plans, just a vague desire to visit Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised, at some point in the future.
Is cannabis a viable health option?
Oped, Viroj NaRanong & Wuttipong Tunyut, Published on 17/07/2024
» Cannabis has been known as a herbal plant with psychoactive effects for thousands of years. The herb has been used for both medical and recreational purposes. As the plant is addictive, several countries have categorised it as a narcotic drug.
How to attain universal cancer care
News, Sonali Johnson, Published on 22/09/2023
» At the upcoming second United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) this week, the world's governments are expected to adopt a new set of commitments focused on accelerating implementation of UHC. No resolution will be complete without the explicit inclusion of comprehensive cancer services.
Fighting a silent killer
Tatat Bunnag, Published on 04/09/2023
» Those who've been following the news lately will probably have heard that political activist Chuwit Kamolvisit publicly disclosed that he has stage 3 liver cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. He also added that his doctors have given him only eight months to live.
Fighting cancer in Southeast Asia
Oped, Poonam Khetrapal, Published on 07/02/2023
» On World Cancer Day, which is concurrent on Feb 4 annually, the WHO is calling for intensified action across the Southeast Asian region to strengthen health systems to prevent and detect cancers early, to provide prompt treatment referral, to enhance access to palliative care, and to close the gap in access to quality cancer services -- the theme of this year's commemoration.
Drug resistance is killing millions
Oped, Sonali Johnson, Published on 07/07/2022
» Some 1.27 million people died in 2019 directly as a result of infection because the bacteria causing the infection were resistant to the drugs designed to kill them, according to a recent study in The Lancet; overall, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is estimated to have contributed directly or indirectly to the premature, preventable deaths of nearly five million people in 2019.
Putin can't deny child casualties
News, Olena Zelenska, Published on 14/03/2022
» Recently, an overwhelming number of media outlets from around the world have reached out with requests for interviews. This letter serves as my answer to these requests and is my testimony from Ukraine.