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Multi-resistant malaria spreading in S.E. Asia

Strains of malaria resistant to two key anti-malarial medicines are becoming more dominant in Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand after spreading rapidly from Cambodia, scientists warned on Monday.

Matters of the heart

Did you know that the human heart beats approximately 100,000 times daily? Just like a machine, the heart pumps roughly five litres of blood around our body through a network of blood vessels called the circulatory system.

KIDNEY DISEASE KILLS MANY

Our kidneys may be small, but they perform many vital functions that help maintain our overall health, including balancing our body fluid, salts and minerals while discarding the wastes from our blood.

THINK WITH PingAnn

Ping Ann reads the message he received from a Cambodian woman who saw the breast cancer campaign video he made in 2018 to raise awareness on the disease in the Kingdom.

Human hoof-and-mouth disease

HFMD is an infectious disease with following symptoms: fever, painful mouth ulcers, as well as blisters and a rash on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. 

Debunking HIV infection/AIDS

The disease has changed in many ways since then. Once it was a deadly disease with high infectivity and no Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). Today, it is very much under control with the use of better ART.

The man’s menopause

Men may not have menstruation, but like women, at some point of time, they also ‘pause’, perhaps somewhat differently. Thus, women’s menopause pronounced as men-no-pause doesn’t really imply that men don’t pause.

Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables!

Growing up, our parents always encouraged us to eat our vegetables and fruits. For generations, we raised our children to believe that veggies and fruits are super foods that make us strong (even popular cartoon,

International Vulture Awareness Day

This year´s International Vulture Awareness Day is on Saturday September 1. The aim is for each participating organization to carry out individual activities that highlight vulture conservation.

Brazil slams Venezuela as measles spreads across border

Brazil has accused Venezuela of doing nothing to stop the spread of an outbreak of measles in Brazil and other neighboring countries that has been sparked by an exodus of Venezuelans fleeing economic collapse.

Bird flu hits Vietnamese city

Bird flu virus H5N6 has killed and led to the forced culling of some 10,000 fowls in An Duong district in Vietnam.

Dancing and good health

Professor Rafi Eldor, a Harvard professor of economics was diagnosed to have early Parkinson’s disease, he thought, “If medicine can only mask but not heal this devastating Parkinson’s disease, I shall try something else unconventional that might heal it.”

PM touts policy of peace

PM revisited the history of the civil war that Cambodia experienced for decades and his endeavour to build peace.

Rabies – The painful and deadly disease

Rabies is the most lethal disease known to man. It tortures and torments its victims horrendously for many days before finally killing them. Having rabies is like entering ‘hell on earth’ before crossing the bridge…