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Recovery in Hat Yai 'is too slow'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/12/2025
» Senator Chaiyong Maneerungsakul has criticised the slow progress in clearing waste from Hat Yai after the recent floods, warning that the backlog poses serious health and safety risks ahead of heavy rain forecast for Dec 14.
Terminal volunteers can save lives
News, Peter Singer & Benjamin L Sievers, Published on 13/09/2025
» At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), a programme called Last Gift offers terminally ill patients the opportunity to help create more effective treatments. Their special circumstances transform the usual risk-benefit calculus of joining a clinical study of an untested drug. Researchers can ask them to consider consenting to being research participants in ways that they would not ask healthier people with long life expectancies, and terminally ill patients may choose to give that consent when others would be less likely to do so.
Early-onset cancer shift
News, Editorial, Published on 26/07/2025
» The death of 29-year-old Chiang Mai doctor Krittai Tanasombatkul from lung cancer at the end of 2023 was a wake-up call for Thailand's healthcare community.
Prasert plots Myanmar talks on Kok River
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/05/2025
» CHIANG RAI: Deputy Prime Minister Prasert Jantararuangtong said he would travel to meet with Myanmar authorities to discuss issues of arsenic and heavy metal contamination in the Kok River.
Thai health minister warns of anthrax risk despite no new cases
News, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 11/05/2025
» Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin announced that no new anthrax cases have been detected, but he urged residents in high-risk areas to remain vigilant. He advised against touching, butchering, or moving animal carcasses and recommended avoiding consumption of raw meat.
Klong Toey vendors told to move in clean-up bid
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2025
» Street food vendors at Klong Toey Market 1 have been told to clear out by March 16 as part of an effort to improve scenery and pedestrian walkways along Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok's inner subdistrict of Klong Toey.
Farmers move to stop burning
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 08/02/2025
» Farmers in the Northeast have shown a willingness to stop crop burning and switch to a decomposition method instead, saying they are ready to be part of the transition towards sustainable agriculture with the support of related sectors.
Warning after raw pork deaths in NE Thailand
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 06/10/2024
» The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has alerted the public to be wary of uncooked pork following 12 deaths linked to Streptococcus suis in four provinces in the lower northeastern region.
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.
OCPB, FDA asked to weigh in on old-rice dispute
News, Chairith Yonpiam and Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/05/2024
» The Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are being urged to inspect the quality of decade-old rice, which the Commerce Ministry plans to sell amid concerns about aflatoxin and chemical contamination.