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Public Health minister vows to keep universal healthcare scheme unchanged
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul confirmed on Thursday (August 15) that the Universal Healthcare system will not be subjected to any changes that could burden people, such as the co-payment of 10 to 20 per cent of their medical bills to ease the government’s financial ...
The Nation Reporter
Thailand rolling out its legal weed wares
Still unwilling to allow the public to get zonked or profit from recreational marijuana, Thailand has instead produced its first pharmaceutical THC and CBD oils, tablets, oral sprays, chocolate wafers and traditional potions after recently legalizing medical cannabis.Keep reading ...
Ministry of Public Health monitors disease outbreaks during rainy season
The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is monitoring disease outbreaks during the rainy season, especially in the flooded areas.Keep watching ...
Health insurance policies to be standardised by 2021
The Office of the Insurance Commission plans to revise standards for health insurance contracts to ensure that consumers get a fair deal.Suthipol Thawichaikarn, the commission’s secretary general, said executives of private insurance firms and other concerned parties would be consulted with an eye to reducing ...
The Nation Reporter
'Daycha Oil' set to receive official approval this week
The cannabis extract oil known as “Daycha Oil” is to get official approval early this week but its creator has ceded responsibility for producing it to the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine.“I have found it difficult to make the drug on my own ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
Health ministry proposes solution to crowded hospital issue
Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has proposed an idea to address the issue of crowded hospitals by allowing general patients who have already seen a doctor to purchase medicine at pharmacies registered with the ministry.Keep watching ...
Treatment changed after drug-resistant malaria found in Isan
The Public Health Ministry has changed the medications used to treat malaria in two northeastern border provinces where cases of drug-resistance have been reported.Assadang Ruay-achin, spokesman for the disease control department, said on Wednesday that infection with the mosquito-born malaria parasite was normally treated with ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Doctor warns of flu complications
Type A Influenza can be fatal if lung infection sets in, Thai pulmonary disease expert Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs warns.The doctor cited as an example a case of 57-year-old Thai man in reasonable health and a habit of smoking half a packet of cigarette daily who ...
The Nation Reporter
Hopes high at hospital leading medical marijuana studies
Six months after the government revised the Drug Abuse Act to open the door to medical marijuana, researchers at Chao Phya Abhaibhubejhr Hospital in Prachin Buri are expecting to see profound benefits soon among people with Parkinson’s disease.Known for its research into and development of ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Rapid TB tests to go nationwide
The Department of Medical Sciences has successfully developed a new rapid test kit for tuberculosis (TB), which will be distributed to community hospitals nationwide in October.Sukhum Kanchanapimai, permanent secretary for public health, on Tuesday told a press conference that the ministry is aware that TB ...
Apinya Wipatayotin