Medical staff members should exercise caution in distributing information about patients’ illnesses through social media because doing so could violate the law, the National Health Commission Office said yesterday. The warning came after pictures of what were believed to be X-ray images of Democrat leader Abhisit...
The Faculty of Medicine of Chiang Mai University and the National Health Commission Office (NHCO) of Thailand signed an academic cooperation agreement to establish the center for research and training on the assessment of the health impacts of public policies and projects. The signing by...
Permanent secretary for Public Health Narong Sahametapat has backed a push to outlaw these of all asbestos in Thailand. His stance has been welcomed by civil society groups which had been campaigning for an asbestos ban for two years. The PublicHealth Ministry, at the behest ofDr Narong,...
A deputy prime minister gave a green light to implement food systems management strategies that will integrate the efforts of concerned organizations to supervise overall food production processes that involve raw materials, farmers and operators in order to relieve consumers’ concerns following the findings of...
Situation: A survey on the health of Thai people based on their medical checkup found that some people did not realize they were ill. More than one-third of diabetes patients did not know that they had the illness and more than half of people with hypertension...