Yesterday the Health Ministry claimed that China issued a national ban on smoking in all indoor public spaces. The ban is included in the government’s 12th Five-Year Plan. Also banned is smoking in outdoor public areas where pedestrians pass. The ban will begin May 1. China, with a third of the world’s smoking population at […]
Only 70 per cent of bottled water and drinking water from vending machines has passed quality standards set by the Department of Health, director general Dr Somyos Deerasamee said yesterday. “The problem lies with contamination. Contaminants include heavy metals and bacteria,” he said. Contaminated water causes various diseases including diarrhea and typhoid, he said. Only […]
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) yesterday warned people against travelling to Japan in the wake of nuclear-plant explosions. “Exposure to radiation over a long time or in large amounts can cause cancer,” NCI director Dr Thiravud Khuhaprema said. Meanwhile Dr Piboon Issaraphan, a senior official at the Public Health Ministry’s Bureau of Occupational and Environmental […]
BANGKOK, MARCH 06 2011 (NNT)- Deputy Public Health Minister, Dr. Phansiri Kulnatsiri, says that summer is getting closer and it is the season in which harmful bacteria tend to develop, especially in water shortage areas, which can trigger a risk in spreading food and water borne diseases. Therefore, people should be specifically careful about food […]
Supatra Sasuphan, an 11-year-old girl from Thailand, has been inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s hairiest girl. Sasuphan, who has a rare condition known as Ambras Syndrome, has thick hair growing all over her face, ears, arms and legs. “Nat”, as she is called by her friends, is one of […]
Far from where Samnieng Srichai sat knitting a waistcoat, the 83-year-old woman looked no different from other elderly people. Coming closer to her brought a surprise: her fingers, gnarled by leprosy, knitted fluidly and skilfully. Samnieng suffered from leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, about 50 years ago. It made her fingers crooked. She also lost her […]
The Public Health Ministry confirmed yesterday that at least two people had died in the cold weather – one in Loei and the other in Chiang Rai. “Victims in this category are people who died because they lacked warm clothes and lived in areas declared as being hit by a cold spell,” Public Health Minister […]
Using plastic bags instead of condoms during sex would put teenagers at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and severe vaginal lacerations, the Public Health Ministry warned yesterday. A study has shown that some Mathayom 1 students in the Northeast had used plastic bags to prevent pregnancies and STDs. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said […]
