Public Health Ministry staff check bottles of the antiviral drug molnupiravir at a warehouse in Samut Prakan in March last year. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard) The anti-viral drug molnupiravir has been included in the list of essential medications covered by the Universal Coverage for Emergency Patients (Ucep) Plus scheme, according to […]
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Local dentists give free dental care to shelter residents
HOWARD – Eric Talbot has avoided smiling in front of other people since he was 15. He’d duck and dodge photos or hide behind someone when his friends reached for cameras. If he couldn’t avoid the spectacle, he’d stand uncomfortably with his lips pursed. He didn’t want anybody to see […]
Paxlovid, a drug to treat COVID-19, has been free so far. Next year, patients will have to pay the cost.
Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill within […]
definition of dentist by The Free Dictionary
Then you would manage to stammer forth the confession that you were neither a doctor nor a dentist. Mrs. I will not accept as the crown of my desires a block of buildings with tenements for the poor on a lease of a thousand years, and perhaps with a sign-board […]
definition of medicine by The Free Dictionary
medicine Quotations“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic” [Thomas Szasz The Second Skin] Medicine Branches of medicine aetiology or etiology, anaesthetics, anaplasty, anatomy, andrology, angiology, audiology, aviation medicine, bacteriology, balneology, bioastronautics, […]
definition of hospital by The Free Dictionary
He didn’t tell you about his hospital? Ce sera admirable–everything from Paris.” I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials ‘C.C.’ are placed before that hospital the words The unwieldy […]