Showing 1 - 10 of 17
mRNA malaria vaccine due for first clinical trial
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 17/05/2024
» Mahidol University has inched closer to starting the world's first clinical trial of an mRNA vaccine against malaria.
Time to put brakes on immigration
News, Max Hastings, Published on 04/01/2024
» No politician can be expected to tell us all of the truth. If they did so, they would lose an election even for town dogcatcher. Nonetheless it doesn't seem too much to suggest, in this season of hope, that 2024 might go significantly better than 2023 if more of our leaders around the world acknowledged realities about some of the troubles that beset us.
Jumbo doing well despite 5 tumours
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/07/2023
» The ailing male Thai elephant, Sak Surin, is reportedly recovering well even though a veterinary team found five tumours on his thighs, said the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Lampang province.
Why malaria still persists in much of Africa
News, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 12/06/2023
» We think of malaria as a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle, and was endemic in 36 states of the US. We don't have specific data that far back for Thailand, but back then, malaria is estimated to have killed 2.5 million people each year in the Western Pacific, Middle East and South Asia.
11 catch 'macaque' malaria
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/05/2022
» TRAT: Eleven people in two districts have caught a strain of malaria that primarily infected macaques, governor Chamnanwit Terat said on Monday.
Can we afford to lose effective drugs?
News, Shobha Shukla & Bobby Ramakant, Published on 22/11/2021
» Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) might be known to consumers and patients simply as drug resistance. However, it is actually a looming threat to global health security which threatens to derail efforts to reach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals.
Study into whether animal drug can treat Covid
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/07/2021
» The Department of Medical Sciences will study whether Ivermectin, a drug used to kill parasites in cows and horses, will be able to enhance Favipiravia's efficiency to treat Covid-19.
Anti-S112 protesters gather again
News, Post reporters, Published on 25/03/2021
» Political protesters gathered again at a peaceful protest in Bangkok's central business district on Wednesday night, demanding the release of leaders arrested and detained under lese majeste laws.
Silent killer claiming thousands
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 20/07/2020
» Each year, 14,000 Thais die from cancer that manifests in their bile ducts caused by a silent killer known as liver fluke disease.
Linking Covid-19 and 'Parasite'
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 21/02/2020
» The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 or Covid-19, which originated in China over two months ago and has been spreading around the world has claimed at least 2,100 human lives with another 70,000 laboratory-confirmed cases -- mostly in China.