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People should control their consumption of cannabis as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can bring down their blood pressure and pulse to dangerous levels, a medical expert said on Thursday.

Dr Manop Pithukpakorn, professor of Medicine and clinical staff at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital.

A respected teacher of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine urged the public on Wednesday to remain cautious about Covid-19, saying the new Omicron BA.2 substrain spreads 30 per cent faster than BA.1 although it does not cause more severe symptoms.

Well-known respiratory specialist Dr Manoon Leechawengongs called for radical changes in the way new Covid-19 cases are handled and for expensive RT-PCR tests in general to be stopped.

The University of California’s Francis I Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology released a statement on Monday mourning the death of Dr Waralak Supawat-Jariyakul.

The city administration has painted traffic markings to slow down motorists ahead of the zebra crossing where a doctor was killed by a speeding motorcycle.

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The Omicron variant may be an indication that the Covid-19 pandemic will come to an end within this year, a respiratory expert with Bangkok’s Vichaiyut Hospital predicted on Friday.

Covid-19 patients are being advised to avoid contact with their pets after a local study found that dogs and cats can contract the virus from their infected owners.

A doctor at a state hospital in Nakhon Si Thammarat has resigned after she was caught giving her sister a Pfizer shot, the provincial public health office announced on Monday.

A doctor at the Busarakham field hospital is calling on the government to provide more medics and equipment instead of just extra beds.

A doctor from Bangkok’s Ramathibodi Hospital said on Monday that some Covid-19 patients who are isolating at home have started selling their Favipiravir pills on the black market.