Health

Over the past week, another 46 people have come down with the type-A (H1N1) virus Khon Kaen, Angthong, Chanthaburi, Chon Buri, Samut Prakan and Chiang Mai.

A mother has told of her 'living nightmare' after both her identical twin daughters were diagnosed with leukaemia.

Type-A (H1N1) influenza is feared to be spreading across the country after four deaths were reported in the Northeast and the North over the past week.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The radiation risk from full-body scanners used to improve airport security is low and unlikely to raise an individual's risk of cancer, U.S. experts said on Wednesday.

Trans fat will become oil non grata in California restaurants on New Year's Day, when the state becomes the first in the country to ban the use of the artery-clogging, partially hydrogenated vegetable substance.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu pandemic may not be conquered until 2011, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

PAILIN, Cambodia -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among a tangle of cornfields once littered with deadly land mines. Yet this spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless.

Thailand's Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) has found some five of the total 24 volunteers have developed a cold-liked symptom after they were vaccinated with a nasal-spray-A/H1N1-influenza vaccine.

An estimated 2 million Thais are at risk of contracting type-A (H1N1) influenza following the re-emergence of the pandemic, experts say.

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health reported Wednesday one new fatality from Influenza Type A(H1N1), bringing the country’s death tally to 190.