Social development
Panel to study use of marijuana on mental health patients
The Department of Mental Health’s new panel will come up with guidelines on the use of marijuana for medical purposes and a recommendation on its use in treating psychiatric patients, which will be proposed to the Public Health Ministry’s Narcotics Control Committee, a senior official ...
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New health centres aim to serve foreigners with world-standard services
Foreigners can conveniently now access international-standard healthcare services from the newly established Foreign Customer Service Centres (FCSC) at 133 centres and general hospitals nationwide.Keep reading ...
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New study digs deep to shatter myths about Isaan
Persistently discounted as gullible, desperate, and unsophisticated, the 22 million inhabitants of Isaan–about a third of the country’s population–have long borne the brunt of bias from Thailand’s urban middle class.A new study by the Asia Foundation sets out to investigate if these biases hold any ...
TEP holds forum on Thai education development
The Thailand Education Partnership (TEP) has launched a platform for all sectors to share their ideas on education development in the country to adapt to global changes.Keep watching ...
‘Consumer-centric’ is healthcare of the next decade
In the next 12 years, the healthcare industry will face major demographic changes that would dramatically impact which services are needed and how they are delivered.As millennials, Generation X, and baby boomers will enter new life stages at the same time, there will be simultaneous ...
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MOPH on alert for possible Chikungunya outbreak
The Department of Disease Control has asked related agencies to monitor Chikungunya infections after 14 students and teachers from Singapore contracted the illness after visiting Ratchaburi province.Keep watching ...
Thailand prepares to compete in genomic research and medicine
Thailand has set its sight on becoming Asean’s genomic-medicine leader within five years. “We have already secured a budget of Bt4.47 billion for the five-year Integrated Genomics Thailand Plan,” Public Health Minister Dr Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn revealed on Friday. Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology ...
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Thailand’s Inequality: Unpacking the Myths and Reality of Isan
For decades, the ethnically and linguistically diverse people of Isan, Thailand, have been the subject of pervasive bias, often described as docile and uneducated, or as “unsophisticated peasants” who can be bought and manipulated by ambitious politicians. Bordered by Laos and the Mekong River to ...
REPORT: Progress made on medical cannabis, but challenges are ahead, Cannabis Walk Thailand was told
Although Thailand is still lagging behind other countries in developing cannabis-based medication, Thai medical researchers hope frozen knowledge could be renewed and extended to serve patients’ needs, especially in the field of traditional medicine.Keep reading ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
7m Thais at risk of severe stress: health chief
Over 7 million Thais worked more than 50 hours per week and were at risk of severe stress that can affect their work quality and health if they do not learn how to manage the stress properly, a senior doctor warned on Thursday.Keep reading ...
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