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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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is monitoring disease outbreaks during the rainy season, especially in the flooded areas.Keep watching ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Concerns are being raised after the resignation of two prominent human rights advocates from the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand.An alarm bell signaling the need for a total revamp of the flawed and scandal-ridden agency.Thailand’s Human Rights Commissioners Angkhana Neelapaijit and Tuenjai Deetes announced ...

Companies will face legal action and have their assets seized if they fail to make the mandatory contributions to the Social Security and Workmen’s Compensation funds, the Social Security Office has warned.Secretary-general Ananchai Uthaipattanacheep said on Thursday that penalties will be imposed on employers who ...

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 ...

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 ...