Patients in South Ethiopia Know How to Manage Diabetes, but Drug Shortages and Costs Undercut Self-Care
This qualitative study examined diabetes self-care in three South Ethiopian hospital clinics. Its 21 participants comprised 12 adults with type 2 diabetes and nine healthcare providers. Patients described medication, diet, physical activity, foot care, and glucose monitoring as daily work negotiated against financial pressure, drug shortages, beliefs, food costs, limited support, and health-system constraints. Patients tended to foreground structural barriers, whereas providers placed more emphasis on knowledge and forgetting advice. Continued counselling, reliable medicines, and peer support emerged as priorities, but these are interview-derived design directions rather than tested interventions.
Temesgen Anjulo Ageru · Cua Ngoc Le · Apichai Wattanapisit · Charuai SuwanbamrungWalailak University · Prince of Songkla University
A post hoc analysis of the DEN-301 placebo arm followed 30,620.6 person-years, identifying 560 virologically confirmed dengue cases among 9,698 febrile illnesses; 142 cases, or 25.4%, were hospitalized.
A 20-year-old man on automated peritoneal dialysis developed vague abdominal symptoms, weight loss and declining ultrafiltration. Repeated dialysate cultures, acid-fast staining and molecular tests were negative despite mononuclear-predominant leukocytosis. Contrast CT identified peritoneal nodules, CT peritoneography showed a trapped dialysate pocket, and targeted biopsy demonstrated necrotising granulomatous inflammation. Tissue culture grew M. kansasii resistant to rifampicin, moxifloxacin and ciprofloxacin.
HITAP reviewed 278 HTA capacity-strengthening activities in 25 countries from 2010 to mid-2025. Asia accounted for 151 activities and 128 engagements were programmatic rather than ad hoc. Knowledge sharing represented 26% and research or project collaboration 21%. Among 11 African partner countries, only three had programmatic engagement, accounting for 30 activities.
Morphology combined with ITS, LSU, rpb2 and β-tub phylogenies distinguished Nigropunctata pseudohydei as a new species and confirmed the first Thai record of N. complanata.
Thai researchersZaw Lin Tun · Digvijayini Bundhun · Kevin D. Hyde
An eight-country perspective argues that telemedicine, wearables and home sensors, augmented AI and mobile health can distribute expertise, observe symptoms between visits and support self-management, particularly where neurologists are scarce. Impact depends on infrastructure, interoperability, workforce, governance and equity-first hybrid care, not devices alone.
DJC6219 and NK62157 were isolated from municipal wastewater and characterised through host-range assays, electron microscopy, stability, multiplicity-of-infection optimisation, growth kinetics and genomics.
The authors review challenges in estimating preventable AMR burden and advocate explicit counterfactuals, confounding control and principled combination of individual studies.
Thai researchersCherry Lim · Sue J. Lee · Yin Mo · Ben S. Cooper
Ten Asia-Pacific experts developed 11 consensus statements on mild traumatic brain injury and use of GFAP/UCH-L1 within 12 hours. Final agreement was 90-100%, emphasizing biomarkers as adjuncts while clinical assessment and locally available imaging remain central.
RGD-functionalized cannabidiol lipid nanoparticles increased cellular uptake threefold and in-vitro BBB transport by 65%, while reducing inflammatory and oxidative markers. In a preclinical Alzheimer's model, cognition, Aβ/tau pathology, metabolism and gut-barrier indicators improved. The findings are promising but not evidence in patients.
Researchers used the UNDRR Stop Disasters online game with students, water professionals and community members in Thailand and Malaysia. A post-game survey of 35 participants found high enjoyment, lively interaction and perceived reinforcement of declarative flood-management knowledge.
Among 1,870 critically ill patients with acute kidney injury, sodium and potassium from arterial blood-gas analysers showed relatively good agreement with central laboratory values, with potassium having the narrowest limits. Clinically meaningful discrepancies occurred in 7.0% of sodium, 14.1% of potassium and 31.4% of chloride measurements, so rapid bedside results should support rather than replace reference testing.
This multicentre secondary analysis used the validated 2018–2020 TH-SOSGOQ 2.0 database. The full cohort included 68 patients and the reliability/construct-validity cohort 64. Mean age was 57 years and 55.9% were women. Internal consistency was 0.832 and test-retest ICCs ranged from 0.52 to 0.85.
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Novel endoscopic treatment to prevent refractory caustic esophageal strictures: a propensity score-matched analysis
Low-Volume Superior Trunk and Superficial Cervical Plexus Block With Sedation as the Sole Regional Anesthetic for Proximal Humerus Fracture Fixation in a Patient With Alzheimer Disease
American Journal of Case Reports
Thailand-affiliated authors
Niruji Saengsomsuan · Lalida Sangkakit
Institutions
Thammasat University Hospital
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Environmental Engineering
TLQ-Geo: a two-level q-learning-based geographic routing protocol for flying ad hoc networks
Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
Thailand-affiliated authors
Thantrira Porntaveetus
Institutions
Chulalongkorn University
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Clinical Medicine
Hospital work environment and perceived workforce productivity: a structure–process–outcome perspective from Thailand's healthcare sector
King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok · King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang · PTT Public Company Limited (Thailand)
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Global Public Health
Green synthesis of okra mucilage-capped iron oxide nanoparticles and their application for aflatoxin M1 reduction in buffalo milk
International Journal of Food Science & Technology
Thailand-affiliated authors
Muhammad Tayyab Arshad
Institutions
Prince of Songkla University
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Global Public Health
NFC technology improving depressive symptoms in adolescents with depression: quasi-experimental study
International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS)
Thailand-affiliated authors
Susaree Prakhinkit · Adjara Titawattanaku
Institutions
Siam University
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Clinical Medicine
A Diagnostic Accuracy of Multidetector Computed Tomography in Distinguishing Benign and Malignant Focal Liver Lesions at the National Referral Hospital, Bhutan: A Cross-sectional Study.
Bhutan Health Journal
Thailand-affiliated authors
Kanokwan Wetasin
Institutions
Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University
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Clinical Medicine
Novel deferiprone resveratrol hybrid exhibits iron chelation and fetal hemoglobin induction in K562 cells supported by validated LC-MS/MS quantification
Utility of High-Throughput Genomic Analysis for Genetic Counseling in Large Family with Wilson Disease Carrying a Novel 28-bp ATP7B Splice-Junction Deletion
Prince of Songkla University · Songklanagarind Hospital · Bangkok Hospital
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Valorisation of agricultural waste-derived procyanidin-rich extract from early immature Durio zibethinus L. fruit for sustainable dentin caries management