"Medicine"

The “Mor Mai Thon” (Doctors Won’t Tolerate) group is demanding that the government procure mRNA vaccines for frontline medics after the leaked minutes of a meeting about the distribution of donated Pfizer vaccines created an uproar on social media on Sunday.

The Royal Gazette on June 4 added five herbal medicines to the National List of Essential Medicinal Herbs.

A consignment of 2.2 million Favipiravir pills ordered from Japan is arriving on April 26. The order was placed after the Ministry of Public Health urged state agencies to prepare for the latest Covid-19 wave.

Doctors have linked the temporary paralysis suffered by six health workers in Rayong to the Sinovac jabs they had received. The vaccine had apparently created blood clots within 30 minutes of administration, but it was temporary as the problem was solved fairly quickly with medication.

Shouldn't a medicine like Remdesivir, which has proved to be life-saving in certain cases of Covid-19, be made available to all those who need it without delay?

An initiative aimed at helping patients find medicines near their homes is enjoying success at various levels, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey by Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Programme (HITAP).

The medicinal plant Andrographis Paniculata could be effective in treating Covid-19, the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine said, revealing results of preliminary research.

A research team at a temporary COVID-19 hospital at Wisma Atlet Kemayoran in Central Jakarta has reportedly managed to recruit its 90th and final subject for its clinical trials of new herbal medicines for COVID-19 patients. Seventy-two of them have completed the trials so far.

The Ministry of Public Health has agreed to blend marjuana with pharmaceutical formulas to prescribe in local health promotion hospitals.

The Faculty of Medicine at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), along with Medicare Co Ltd, has launched “Antavir”, a herbal composition that is believed to help boost the body’s ability to fight infections like Covid-19.

Some 111 hospitals have delivered drugs by mail to tens of thousands of patients under Thailand Post’s “Drug Delivery Project to Patients by Mail” campaign, the National Health Security Office (NHSO) said today (May 19).

The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has said it is increasing the production of medications for chronic diseases by 50 per cent and is calling on hospitals to cooperate by prescribing medicines appropriately, said Dr Mukdavan Prakobvaitayakit, GPO’s deputy managing director.