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Carrier screening: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

January 30, 2017

RAISING A healthy child to adulthood is an utmost priority to parents looking to start a family and preconception genetic screening is a vital step towards achieving that goal.

Helping children lead normal lives

November 14, 2016

Diabetes is a scary diagnosis that is unfortunately becoming more frequent all over the world, Thailand included. But a diagnosis of diabetes, even in children, need not spell despair.

Thailand and the obesity epidemic

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016

Obesity has reached alarming levels in the Asean Economic Community and especially in Thailand, where 32 per cent of the population are overweight

Zika infection: an update

MONDAY, MAY 30, 2016

The World Health Organisation’s sudden declaration of the Zika infection as a public health emergency of international concern in early 2016 inevitably generated poorly documented and often sensational headlines.

A weighty problem

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2016

Once rare in Thailand, childhood obesity is today on the rise, with figures released by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health in 2013 showing obesity growth rates of 36 per cent in pre-school age kids and 15 per cent in school age children.

Mother's milk is life giving

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015

Breastfeeding is supposedly a natural phenomenon, as natural as childbirth itself.