A good death, or a good life?
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan on ageing, nursing homes and death. Is medical science ignoring personal suffering of the aged by prolonging their life?
Tag: medicine
Laughing your way to good health
“There isn’t much laughter in medicine but there is plenty of medicine in laughter.” Madan Kataria who is a doctor himself came to this realisation and went on to create what he called “laughter yoga”.
Use antibiotics properly, Mongolians told
Mongolia’s Health Ministry urged Mongolians to properly use antibiotics.
China postpones lifting of ban on trade of tiger and rhino parts
China postpones the lifting of a ban on the trade of rhino horn and tiger parts.
Venezuelan mothers-to-be head to Brazil to give birth
Venezuelan women are leaving their country and giving birth across the border in Brazil.
Ministry issues warning over online medicine
The Health Ministry has issued a warning against five types of joint-soothing medication and 12 types of sex stimulants.
Top court delays HIV-doctor appeal
The Supreme Court decided to indefinitely postpone the appeal hearing of Yem Chrin, an unlicensed doctor serving 25 years in prison for spreading HIV to nearly 300 villagers in Battambang province’s Roka commune in 2014.
Singapore to use drones to deliver medicine
Drones could be used across hi-tech Singapore to deliver life-saving medical supplies.
WHO donates medicine to Tanzania
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated medicine, equipment and test kits worth $2.4 million to Tanzania.
The Honey-Hunters
Probably unfamiliar to many, there’s a network of non-government organisations that helps create a self-empowered generation of forest-dependent communities in the region.
Sri Lanka to protect traditional medicines
Sri Lanka is working with WIPO to support traditional, indigenous medicine system.
Public advised against using fake health supplements
The public has been advised to avoid consuming Madura health supplements.
Insuring Cambodians’ future: Interview with AIA’s Richard Bates
Richard Bates, CEO of AIA Cambodia, the largest life insurer in Asia, talks to Khmer Times.
Public advised against consuming fake coffee and health supplements
The public has been advised to avoid consuming counterfeit coffee and MADURA health supplements.
Drugs found in traditional remedies
The Health Ministry has recalled Ceng Fui Yen traditional medicines from pharmacies and traditional medicine stores nationwide.
Health officials warn of weight-loss drug
The Health Ministry has urged people to avoid the illegal weight loss medicine Leense.
Ministry warns of banned medicine for sale online
Health Ministry warns over a health product that had its registration revoked in 2010.
Sildenafil-laced coffee product recalled
Health Ministry recalls the Coffee Chong Ol Mekh product from markets.
Exercise is good medicine
Cavemen rose early before sunrise, when the jungle air was pervaded with an abundance of fresh oxygen from the thick foliage of green canopies, shrubs and grass.
Hun Sen pushes for malaria-free Kingdom
The government calls to help make Cambodia a malaria-free country.
Senate approves law regulating import of medicine
The Senate to regulate the import and export of pharmaceutical products.
In memory of grandma and Kak Channthy
The day was dark and somber on March 20, 2018 – marking the first year of passing of my grandmother and the shocking news that day, that the vibrant, young, talented singer and friend to so many, Kak Channthy, was tragically killed in a road accident.
Interior Minister fights against fake medicine
Interior Minister appeals to manage the health sector in order to eliminate fake products.
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.
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.”
PM calls for improved health care
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday reminded the Ministry of Health to strictly examine the opening of clinics and the medicine being sold to avoid any bad impacts on the health of the people.
Clinic shut down in Svay Rieng
The Svay Rieng provincial health department permanently closes a private clinic after the owner oversteps limitations on treatment.
Doctor in HIV scandal loses court appeal
The court is upholding the sentence of 25 years in prison for infecting 300 people with HIV.
The Fred Hollows Foundation to celebrate 25 years restoring sight
What started as a small Australian charity to continue the legacy of the late Professor Fred Hollows, has become an international organisation that works in more than 25 countries.
