Latests Medical News from around the world and also Thailand, bringing you updates, discoveries, studies and findings on various aspects and diseases in the medical world. Most of these articles are not only meant for Doctors In Thailand or Hospitals In Thailand but also for any patients or health conscious individuals wanting to know more.
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 3 years ago
Taiwan authorities as of 30 minutes ago has raised its travel warnings for several regions in Asia that have been affected by the 2019nCoV coronavirus.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said that the warnings are as follows:
Hong Kong and Macao: Taiwan has raised the travel alerts for the two semi-autonomous Chinese cities to level three, which urges the public not to travel t...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 3 years ago
Recently with thermal scanners everywhere from shopping centres to shopping malls, schools and office building and even at some prestigious massage parlours in Thailand!, many locals and even foreigners are paranoid about their body temperature. The coronavirus fear have in fact created a ‘social fever’ of its own.
Already with most of Thailand especially Bangkok being hot and humid...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 3 years ago
News has emerged that Thailand’s Public Health Minister cum Deputy Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul has banned a cruise liner with suspected cases of coronavirus from docking into Thailand’s Laem Chabang port. The cruise ship called Westerdam is a Holland-American ship carrying a total of about 2,800 people onboard including 800 crew members. The ship had previously been denie...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 3 years ago
A new medical and clinical study on the coronavirus based on data gathered from more than 1,000 coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China revealed that the incubation period for the coronavirus was as long as 24 days rather than the previously believed 14 days, and also significantly, fewer than half of the patients showed fever symptoms when they first saw doctors.
The new research study prod...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 3 years ago
A California based molecular diagnostics company has announced that it has developed a new test kit for the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus that can provide results in less than 30 minutes.
Cepheid, a leading biotech and molecular diagnostics company announced that in response to the rapid outbreak of a new coronavirus strain, the company has developed an automated molecular test for the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 3 years ago
Chinese Health authorities on Tuesday morning reported that for Hubei province alone, there were 2,097 new cases of infection and 103 new deaths due to the coronavirus.
The Hubei provincial health commission had confirmed a total of 31,728 cases with 974 deaths by the end of Monday, indicating a fatality rate of 3.07%. for just Hubei alone.
It said there were still a total of 16,68...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
India which is among many countries that have restricted all travel to and from China and has also been screening passengers from Hong Kong and now decided to include all passengers from to Thailand and also Singapore.
As the coronavirus spread in on the increase in China and now globally, India has decided to take all necessary safeguards to protect its country as a coronavirus epi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
China health authorities have reported that so far about 3,466 individuals have recovered from the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Certain other countries that had cases of infected individuals have also said the same that some of its patients have recovered?
Can the medical community explain what is meant by recovered or cured with regards to the coronavirus?
To date, even the current diag...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infections worldwide is now 443 spanning 29 countries. But what is disturbing is that there are now more than 22,130 suspected cases spanning more than 102 countries that are pending testing or awaiting test results according to collated data from health authorities worldwide.
Japan leads with 156 cases, majority (almost 130 cases) from the cru...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
The China’s agriculture ministry has officially announced that the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of avian flu has emerged in a various farms throughout the province Sichuan over the weekend.
This is the first time that the H5N6 avian flu strain has been detected in poultry farm for this year in China though in the past it was detected in Swans and there were also fatal cases o...
Source:Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
The last 4 weeks has been a stressful and scary time for many with news about the coronavirus outbreak and daily death tolls and also numbers infected that rising day by day.
The online and print publications has been full of misinformation and fake news even from so called Health organizations that have enrolled the help of social media platforms to only promote their own agenda.
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Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
The following article was based on observations by Chinese doctors and researchers at ground level in China coupled with data available from published research studies about the coronavirus. It is subject to contention and also changes as many variables about the new coronavirus is still unknown and gradually coming to light.
According to Chinese doctors in Wuhan, a person can initially c...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 3 years ago
Chinese health authorities announced this morning that the death toll from the coronavirus is now 908 while the numbers confirmed infected are 40553 and those in critical condition are about 3,732.
Officials in protective suits checking on an elderly man wearing a facemask who
collapsed and died on a street near a hospital in Wuhan.Image Credit: AFP
Despite media announcements by the Chin...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 3 years ago
The only optimism so far with regards to the coronavirus situation is coming from WHO officials and that too has been based on data supplied to them from China health officials.
Many medical researchers in Europe and US along with Chinese researchers on the ground and new data supplied by Tech Giant Baidu tells a different story that correlates with everything that is actually happening a...
Source:Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 3 years ago
Scottish Medical researchers from the University of Edinburgh are warning all clinicians that steroids should be avoided in the treatment of the current novel coronavirus.
Steroids are often administered to alleviate certain conditions in respiratory diseases.
A new report published in The Lancet journal concludes that, based on evidence from previous outbreaks of similar types of ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 3 years ago
Despite WHO’s optimism that the virus seems to be stabilizing in China, there seems to be imminent danger that new coronavirus epicenters will emerge in other parts of the world as what is happening in China at the moment with newer cities fighting the battle in provinces like Chongqing, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Henan and Hunan despite being downplayed by Chinese authorities.
Singapore is now t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 3 years ago
New research is emerging that the new coronavirus, 2019-nCov is also able to be transmitted through the eyes.
The repost published in the Lancet, a prestigious and per-reviewed medical journal, warned that there is also ample evidence to prove that the coronavirus is able to spread through the eyes and that it was also a route that caused many new infections.
The report cited as an...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 3 years ago
On Sunday morning, China health authorities announced that their death toll from the coronavirus is now 811 with 37,198 confirmed infected and about 3,218 in critical condition.
Among the dead in China was a 60 year old America male national and also a 65 year old Japanese male national, both residing in Wuhan, China.
Cases of individuals getting infected with the coronavirus is al...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 08, 2020 3 years ago
Once you are sick and confirm infected with the coronavirus in China, you literally become state property with no longer have any freedom or rights!
You are no allowed to leave the premises, are not allowed to have visitors, have to simply do as you are told. You are not given any consent forms to sign, not told of what is happening to you, not informed of what drugs or procedures is bein...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 08, 2020 3 years ago
The Thailand Public Health Ministry surprisingly reported seven new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, (perhaps to deflect other media stories) that included three Thais and four Chinese.
With the new cases, Thailand’s total for the number of coronavirus infected cases in the country as claimed by the Ministry Of Public Health would only be only 32, a figure that raises many people&rsquo...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 08, 2020 3 years ago
More than forty hospital health care workers were infected with the novel coronavirus by patients at a single Wuhan hospital in January, a new study has found, underscoring the risks to those at the frontlines of the growing epidemic.
An Overcrowded Hospital In China
In one incident, one patient who was admitted to the surgical department was presumed to have infected 10 health care ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 08, 2020 3 years ago
While many medical experts are denying that the new 2019n-CoV coronavirus has mutated or can mutate, a new meta-analysis based on a detailed study of all known genomes sequenced from samples collated from all infected patients from around the world have revealed a disturbing fact that many medical experts and health organizations are refusing to make known to the public, the coronavirus has a new ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 08, 2020 3 years ago
For the last few weeks many queries were flooding so called ‘health and medical experts’ with regards to how long can the coronavirus survive on surfaces outside of a human host? Other questions included : Do they persist on surfaces such as door handles or hospital bedside tables or in lifts or toilets and if so for how long? Also many asked what methods can be used to kill them effec...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 08, 2020 3 years ago
As of Saturday morning, 9am Beijing time, the death toll in China due to the coronavirus stands at 725 with more than 34,557 confirmed infected cases and 6,118 in critical condition according to reports by China health authorities. (as far as we are concerned, none of these figures are credible! Also note that all online sites like WHO, John Hopkins etc are all fed data from the Chinese health aut...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
Research led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists reveal a natural compound found in many well-known and widely consumed vegetables can also be used to fight fatty liver disease. The new study demonstrates how non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, can be controlled by indole, a natural compound found in gut bacteria and in cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, kale, cauliflower a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
The number of passengers onboard a British-American cruise docked in Japan, that are have tested positive for coronavirus has now escalated to 61 with many more onboard getting sick and awaiting tests.
All 3700 odd passengers are facing a 14 day quarantine while those infected have been moved to hospitals.
Health authorities from Japan have so far tested 273 people on board t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
Since the emergence of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV was made public, healthcare professionals and biotech researchers have been having a frantic time developing test kits for diagnosing the presence of the coronavirus in suspected individuals.
One of the major obstacles faced was that test samples used were sputum taken from the infected patients. The viscosity and sticky nature of sputu...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
The sudden emergence of the respiratory coronavirus in China has once again got global biotech and medical researchers rushing to develop a vaccine against the fast spreading and deadly disease. However no one can predict when it would materialize as there are so many factors affecting its development.
Immediately after researchers and health officials from China disseminated the genetic ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
More and more cases of individuals being infected with the coronavirus are emerging in Singapore over the last few days with more of them now being local human to human transmissions.
Free mask being handed out In Singapore by the Singapore Government, Pic Credit; Straits Times
Two more new cases were reported yesterday including a Singaporean who contracted it while attending a business ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
Thailand Medical News is appealing to WHO, Government and Health Official Worldwide and doctors have to take note of a trend occurring in the last few weeks that have numerous ramifications.
As a result of easy access to medical information online (we at Thailand Medical News are to be blamed too), numerous Chinese citizens who are unable to gain access to hospitals or get immediate medic...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 07, 2020 3 years ago
Wuhan Central Hospital has confirmed that Ophthalmologist Dr Li Wenliang had died from a coronavirus related infection at 2.58 am on Friday, February 7th despite Chinese authorities trying to silence the death.
Dr Li Wenliang was admitted to a hospital in January and later confirmed to have
the coronavirus, according to a post on his social media account. PHOTOS: WEIBO
Dr Li was among the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
Medical Researchers from Duke University in North Carolina have managed to reformulate an existing cocaine vaccine with a new ingredient to make it more effective to treat addiction. The new ingredient added to a current cocaine vaccine appears to enhance its effectiveness in blocking the drug's "high" when tested in mice, according to the research findings.
The novel ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
Health officials in Wisconsin confirmed the state's first case of coronavirus Wednesday, raising the total number of cases in the U.S. to 12. The patient is an American white male who had travelled to Wuhan, China and returned.
Health authorities described his condition as mild and that he is currently recuperating at a hospital.
Earlier during the night, hundreds more American...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
The number of coronavirus infections in China continues to surge without any signs of slowing down and more cities are closing and being placed on lockdowns on a daily basis even without warnings. The virus is now present in every single province and the numbers sick with symptoms are phenomenal.
The Chinese officials constantly issues death and infected figures twice a day but everyone i...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
News is emerging that a viral infection that was last seen about 10 years ago has now emerged in the country of Mali as of the Ist Of February. So far 7 people have been confirmed dead and about 20 confirmed infected with many more suspected of being infected as a result of the virus outbreak.
CCHF or Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever is a viral disease. Symptoms of CCHF may include&n...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur in France had been very well prepared when news first emerged about the breakout of the new coronavirus in China as they had been instrumental in many discoveries and protocols during the SARS and MERS outbreaks.
On Friday, January 24, 2020, the very day that the first cases were confirmed, the virology researchers began the process of culturing the s...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
A new research involving a randomized trial conducted by researchers from the University of Helsinki showed that the administration of zinc acetate lozenges to common cold (influenza) patients did not shorten colds or help recovery.
Previously, eight controlled trials reported that zinc lozenges reduced the duration of the common cold, but several other trials did not show that neit...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
The Diamond Princess cruise ship that is anchored at Yokohama, near Tokyo, with 1,046 crew and 2,667 passengers onboard including 428 Americans have reported that another ten more passengers on board have been tested positive for the coronavirus bringing the total to now 20.
There are another 39 passengers that have started displaying symptoms and are awaiting test results. Japan hea...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
Almost more than 400 million people globally use over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to treat pain. At the same time each year worldwide, NSAID use is attributed to approximately 1.4 million hospitalizations and more than 350,000 deaths.(far more than the coronavirus death toll), yet there is very little media coverage of even public awareness of these data. NSAIDS inclu...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 06, 2020 3 years ago
China health authorities are saying that despite the increase in the daily number of deaths and infected due to the coronavirus, they seem to have the situation under control as most cases are only from Hubei and not from other provinces.
The death toll from the coronavirus had risen to 563, with total number of confirmed infections at 28108, and those in critical conditions at 2395. All ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
Chinese doctors and researchers from Wuhan General Hospital, The Pasteur Institute at Shanghai and Institute of Virology At Hubei are all concerned that the coronavirus seems to be evolving and becoming virulent and stronger.
Some of the observations by doctors from Wuhan General Hospital was that in the initial patients, once the symptoms manifested, it took some time before the disease progre...
Source : Thailand Medical news Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
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Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
First it was a British-American luxury cruise liner than had more than 3700 people on board that had to dock urgently at Yokohama , Japan after it was discovered that one male passenger was exhibiting symptoms of the coronavirus infection and was in a critical state.
Subsequently testing on passengers and crew onboard the Diamond Princess Cruise ship, who had contact with the infected ind...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
German medical researchers from the Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine (ISRM) at the medical faculty of Heinrich Heine University-Duesseldorf under the directorship of Prof. Dr. James Adjaye have developed a protocol for the reproducible isolation and characterization of kidney stem cells ie urine derived renal progenitor cells (UdRPCs) from donors of distinct ages, gender ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
According to research findings by medical researchers from Van Andel Institute in Michigan, United States, significantly reducing dietary levels of the amino acid methionine could slow onset and progression of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis in high-risk individuals.
Methionine Rich Food To Avoid To Slow Onset Of Auto-Immmune Diseases
The study findings wa...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
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Health experts are now advising people stay away from conferences and exhibitions in Asia especially those that have international participants or exhibitors after an incident in Singapore.
Accordingly, a business conference that took place in Singapore at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, located at downtown Orchard Road , which is a major shopping and tourists district sometime in January became ...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
Initial comments by many so called experts including some from WHO and The US CDC saying that the coronavirus is not mutating has now been gradually proved to be wrong.
On the 27th Of January, Dr Nancy Messonnier, head of respiratory diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) commented that coronavirus was not mutating. (Source: Medical Express)
Dr Kristian An...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
China coronavirus death toll as of 7.15am Beijing time stood at 492 with the number of individuals infected at 24,395 and more than 2,720 in critical condition. (Note that this are figures released by Chinese health officials with their standard reporting protocol of only adding in deaths and those infected after people have had the diagnostic test done to confirm that they afflicted w...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 05, 2020 3 years ago
The coronavirus is fast spreading all over China with nothing that resembles a country whose government has got things under control. Certain International organizations are also making fake statements that things are under control in China when in reality just ask any doctor or health professional or any person on the street in any province.
Alibaba HQ
Literally all 33,427 hospitals in China a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 04, 2020 3 years ago
Photo therapy or light therapy, consisting of daily exposure to bright, artificial light, is already a recognized line of treatment for people affected by seasonal and nonseasonal depressive disorder.(also known as seasonal affective disorder or SAD)
However till now, not much was known about the potential benefits of light therapy for people with bipolar disorder, one of the le...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 04, 2020 3 years ago
The WHO (World Health Organization) announced on Tuesday that the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV which has spread from China to more than two dozen countries, does not yet constitute a "pandemic" just yet.
Dr Sylvie Briand, head of WHO's Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness division, told reporters in Geneva, "Currently we are not in a pandemic,&qu...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 04, 2020 3 years ago
Thai health authorities announced on Tuesday afternoon during a media conference that 6 more individuals in Thailand were infected with the coronavirus. This bring the total to 25, which many epidemiology experts consider to be very low since the numbers of Chinese nationals that had travelled to Thailand between December 2019 to January 2020 were phenomenal, including the numbers from Wuhan.
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Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 04, 2020 3 years ago
Singapore has reported 6 new cases bringing the total infected in the country with the coronavirus to 24. Of the 6 new cases, 4 were local transmissions as these individuals had never travelled to China in the last 6 months.
The new cases constitute "limited local transmission", the Singapore Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
"There is however no widespread evidence o...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 04, 2020 3 years ago
A recent research study indicates that having general anesthesia in a cesarean delivery is linked with significantly increased odds of severe postpartum depression requiring hospitalization, thoughts of suicide or self-inflicted injury. The findings from research conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Irving Medical Center are published online in&n...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 04, 2020 3 years ago
South Korean authorities have confirmed that a female South Korean tourist who had visited Thailand had contracted the coronavirus. She had never visited China prior to this nor was she in contact with any Chinese nationals. She becomes South Korea's 16th case of those infected with the coronavirus.
Many are however doubting the credibility of this report as Thailand has taken extreme...
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