Chinese hospital ready to treat Cambodians
The Shulan Hangzhou Hospital has performed over 330 liver transplants since 2015.
Tag: disease
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…
New Year to bring better livelihoods
As Khmer New Year approaches, prophecies issued by the government say that this year will see more rain than usual.
Obesity – The scourge of this millennium
Fat cells are the ‘storeroom’ of our body. An average human adult has 30 billion fat cells with a weight of 30 lbs or 13 kilograms and their function is to store excess energy.
Murder ruled out in woman’s death
Banteay Meanchey provincial police have determined that the death of a woman was disease related and not murder.
‘See You Yesterday’ tells of suffering under KR, through dance
The history of Cambodia is forever scarred by the Khmer Rouge regime, during which more than 2 million people were killed or died due to overwork, disease or starvation.
TB’s neglected solution
Though TB can strike anyone, it disproportionately afflicts marginalised and vulnerable populations in places like refugee camps, slums, and prisons. That fact goes a long way towards explaining why 10.4 million people contracted the disease in 2016, write Joanne Liu and Paul Farmer.
Aesthetic medicine – Vanity or insanity?
Admiration of one’s own appearance is vanity. However, excessive concern about it is a psychiatric disease known as body dysmorphic disorder where one becomes preoccupied with an imagined defect in one’s physical appearance leading to a time consuming ritual of mirror-gazing.
Hundreds of chickens dead in Prey Veng
Hundreds of chickens have died from unknown causes over the past week.
Managing diabetes with a doctor
Diabetes is a complex disease, so complex that at one time, a professor of medicine said, “If you know everything about diabetes, you know everything about medicine.”
Malaria cases on the decline
Officials from the Ministry of Health said the numbers of malaria cases was roughly similar in 2017 as it was in 2016.
Officials checking if bird flu killed chickens
About 30 chickens became sick and died in Kampong Cham’s Chamkar Leu district and authorities do not yet know the reason because the owners of the chickens only reported the incident after they buried their…
World Health Organisation’s five keys to safer food
Unsafe food has been a problem throughout human history. Few of the food-safety problems we encounter today are new.
