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New portal for patients, doctors
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/09/2025
» The Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM) has partnered with the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) association to develop a cannabis control platform for doctors and medical practitioners.
Thailand's cannabis dreams go up in smoke
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Chakkrapan Natanri, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 27/06/2025
» In the fertile plains of Nakhon Ratchasima, Somkiat Nitiketkosol tends to his cannabis farm, Suan Fah Yim, with a heavy heart. For years, small- and medium-sized cannabis growers like him have weathered fierce competition, plunging prices and shifting government policies.
Rule limits cannabis buds to medical use
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 27/06/2025
» The Public Health Ministry's regulation requiring a prescription to purchase cannabis buds for medical use has been published in the Royal Gazette and went into effect yesterday.
Alarm over end of Thailand's free medicines policy
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/11/2024
» A civil society group is unhappy with the Medical Council of Thailand's legal action against the National Health Security Office (NHSO)'s policy over free medicine for 16 ailments under the universal healthcare scheme.
UHC needs more funds
News, Editorial, Published on 05/09/2024
» With a Shinawatra returning to Government House, seeing the lavishing upgrade in the 30-baht universal healthcare coverage (UHC) is unsurprising. Nicknamed "the Gold Card" public healthcare system, it was conceived in 2002 under a Thai Rak Thai-led government with Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister.
It's a good time to be working
News, Allison Schrager, Published on 07/03/2024
» The pandemic was so bad for working women, especially mothers, that it was known in some quarters as the "she-cession". But the recovery -- and can we please not call it the "she-covery" -- has been pretty good for them.
New digital platform a game-changer for drug allergies
News, Oraphin Phangyang, Published on 22/02/2024
» The Department of Medical Sciences (DMS) has launched "Phukphan" as a digital platform to collect the results of genetic tests that determine how people respond to drugs, in a field known as pharmacogenomics.
B37bn budget for 62,000 new medics
News, Published on 21/02/2024
» The cabinet has given the green light to a 37-billion-baht project to produce 62,000 family medicine doctors within 10 years to improve the country's primary care services.
Hospital says staff gave wrong meds
News, Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 10/12/2023
» Bangchak Hospital in Samut Prakan on Saturday admitted one of its pharmacists gave a toddler trichloroacetic acid, a medicine used to treat warts, instead of a sleeping aid.
Women file reports against 'farang-finding' scam
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/09/2023
» Many Thai women say they have been scammed by a matchmaking service on Facebook after paying money in the hope of finding love with a foreign man.