First Alarm for 2025

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon. MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon. FACP

US Surgeon General issued a new advisory warning Americans (only?) that alcohol consumption can increase cancer risk, and called for health warning label on alcohol beverages.

About Cigarette

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.FRCPE, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

Nicotine is a chemical that contains nitrogen, which is made by several types of plants, including the tobacco plant. The tobacco plant is indigenous to the Americas for at least 2,000 years.

Meditation and Telomere Length

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.FRCPE, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

Marijuana Use and Diabetes Mellitus

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.FRCPE, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

The use of marijuana is likely to increase in Thailand because of the trend towards increased decriminalization and legalization.

Electronic Cigarette: An Alternative to Smoking ?

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.FRCPE, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

Electronic cigarettes are devices that vaporize nicotine-containing liquids, aiming at an alternative to conventional cigarettes.

Not So Rare !

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

Autism has long been assumed to be relatively uncommon, appearing about 1% of all kids worldwide. The figure was a rough estimate, based on the population of children who have already received the diagnosis of the disorder.

A Devil in Disguise ?

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, FRCP, FRACP, Hon. FACP

Smoking tobacco through cigarette use kills around six million people each year worldwide and is one of the biggest public health threads.

Will Precision Medicine Ever Be a Possibility for Controlling Tuberculosis?

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

Not long ago, the global epidemic of tuberculosis, the so-called “Great White Plague”, was practically eradicated by energetic medical practice, that is, by providing Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination for newborns...

Cigarettes and I

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

My early knowledge on cigarettes may be started to the time I was student at Brompton Chest Hospital in London in 1953, and subsequently at Bellevue Hospital in New York and at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok.

Asbestos Found in Lungs of Half the Thailand Population

Somchai Bovornkitti MD, Hon.MRCP, FRCP, FRACP, Hon.FACP

Almost 50 percent of the general population in Thailand may die with at least traces of asbestos in their lungs, based on two studies. Chrysotile fibers were discovered in the lungs of nearly 50% of those who were part of two post-mortem analysis done by two Departments of Pathology, Mahidol University in Bangkok.