Health

Closures of schools are being ordered widely to cope with outbreaks of the type-A(H1N1) influenza, including an entire junior class at a Khon Kaen vocational college and a primary school in Bangkok involving hundreds of students.

A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. The young man had to be rushed to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The wound was disinfected to cleanse it before he was given a bed in an observation ward.

Australian scientists have developed a "trojan horse" therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs.

BANGKOK - Seven navy cadets in Thailand have tested positive for swine flu and 200 more have developed flu symptoms, an official said Thursday as the country reported 69 new cases, bring the national total to 1,054.

Global production of the first batch of H1N1 vaccine will be completed by September, but the vaccine will take another month to reach Thailand, said the head of the local pharmaceutical producers' association.

Thailand confirmed 73 new cases of swine flu Saturday, taking the country's total to 662, the Thai Health Ministry reported.

Keeping your teeth brushed and flossed can cut down on gum disease, drastically reducing risk of heart attack and stroke, dentists have warned for years. Now researchers at West Virginia University have found a clean mouth may also help preserve memory.

The Public Health Ministry yesterday urged private hospitals nationwide to stop providing the testing service for the type-A(H1N1) flu virus infection to all customers, saying testing should be restricted to people most likely to be at risk from the severe flu-like illness.

Chirofit Chiropractic Clinic, Thailand’s leading chiropractic clinic, recently introduced a new, treatment, which should help to strengthen brand recognition of ‘Chirofit’ with those at risk from sick office syndrome. Chirofit expects its revenue to jump 50-60 per cent to Bt60 million by this year-end and expects to double its customer base within three years.

Eight more Taiwanese students who traveled on two recent graduation tours to Thailand were confirmed to have been infected with swine flu upon their return, bringing to 11 the total number of influenza A(H1N1) infections recorded in the groups, the Taiwanese Central Epidemics Command Center (CECC) said Wednesday.