Two-Stage Model Classifies 46 Produce and Vegetable-Dish Categories at 92.43% Top-1 Accuracy, but Lacks On-Device Validation
The study developed a two-stage ThaiSook pipeline: a binary model first rejects non-produce images, after which a multiclass model identifies 43 fruit and vegetable types and three vegetable-heavy dishes. The 40,595-image dataset contained 11,210 labelled and 29,385 unlabelled user images. With label smoothing and temperature scaling, the pipeline reached 92.43% top-1, 94.56% top-3, and 94.91% top-5 accuracy; Noisy Student raised top-1 accuracy to 92.59%. However, results rely on one train–test split, without real on-device testing or evidence that classification improves dietary measurement or health outcomes.
Decho Surangsrirat · Panyawut Sri-iesaranusorn · Polathep VichitkunakornNational Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) · Prince of Songkla University
This multi-perspective qualitative study at the SMRU tuberculosis sanatorium in Mae Ramat, Tak Province, examined why migrants choose long residential treatment. It included 37 unique patients—33 who chose the sanatorium and four who chose community DOTS—plus five health workers. Three themes organized the findings: desire for cure, barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and community and organizational support.
Thai researchersJindaporn Wirachonphaophong · Hai Ti Ti · Nay Kaw Htoo · Kanjana Winyoorat · Cha Ba · San Soe · Suphak Nosten · Htet Ko Ko Aung · Sein Sein Thi · Francois Nosten
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.
This comparative study examines how 336 purposively recruited respondents in Czechia, Slovakia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam understand and assess the forest bioeconomy. Respondents generally reported stronger familiarity with sustainable forest management and the circular economy than with the bioeconomy itself. Perceptions also varied across country cases, particularly within the Mekong region. A binary logistic regression identified associations between high perceived implementation and country, age, education, understanding of policy aims, support for implementation and positive assessments of forest-industry implementation. These findings describe perceptions within the recruited sample rather than national populations, and the reported associations should not be interpreted as causal effects.
Thai researchersNopparat Kaakkurivaara · Alice Sharp · Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
Researchers examined everyday practices and conditions that could enable cross-species transmission in four rural villages in Nan Province, organising findings into five interfaces: human–animal, human–environment, human-human, animal–animal, and animal–environment. The picture is not simply one of deficient knowledge. Animal contact, butchering and food preparation, water scarcity and contamination, waste, forest change, intensified agriculture, mixed-species proximity, and multilingual communication operate as a system. Community leaders and village health volunteers were viewed as trusted messengers. The study therefore recommends education that combines knowledge, skills, practical tools, and recognition of structural limits, but it neither completed nor evaluated the final intervention.
This review compares conventional acid–alkali and solvent extraction with supercritical fluids, enzymatic hydrolysis, pulsed electric fields, ultrasound, cold plasma, microwave, high-pressure processing, and deep eutectic solvents for recovering bioactives from crustacean by-products. No technology is universally optimal: conventional methods retain advantages in simplicity and maturity, while emerging methods may reduce chemicals or better preserve product quality but face equipment, cost, energy, reproducibility, and pilot-scale constraints. The paper is therefore a map of options and evidence gaps, not proof that one technology is the ‘most sustainable.’
Phetchabun’s micro-elimination programme linked fingerstick anti-HCV testing, HCV-RNA confirmation, and 12-week sofosbuvir/velpatasvir treatment through primary-care and district-hospital services across all 11 districts under universal health coverage. From 2020 to April 2026, 389,547 of 400,567 targeted people were screened (97.25%); 14,845 of 18,340 anti-HCV-reactive participants received RNA confirmation (80.94%), identifying 10,996 active infections. Of 8,961 treatment-eligible patients, 8,842 received therapy (98.67%); among 6,719 evaluated at SVR12, 6,474 were cured (96.35%). The programme demonstrates province-scale test-to-treat feasibility, but not yet the incidence or mortality reductions required for elimination.
This study linked national policy, hospital systems, and provider behaviour in Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam during 2022–2023. It included 486 participants across 16 hospitals. All countries had antimicrobial-stewardship policies, but financing, enforcement, training, microbiology-data use, and inter-programme coordination were uneven. Hospitals averaged 72% on G-ASET, with tracking and reporting highest at 75% and training lowest at 66%. The two Thai hospitals scored 81.3% and 80.6% overall, yet both scored only 50% for training. These results identify actionable system gaps; they do not experimentally show that any intervention reduced antibiotic use, resistance, or mortality.
The article synthesises publications and long-running surveillance at the animal–human interface in Laos and Cambodia, covering Taenia solium, Trichinella, Streptococcus suis, rickettsiae, melioidosis, hepatitis E, and Japanese encephalitis. Its recurring message is diagnostic invisibility caused by limited laboratories and fragmented human–animal–environment systems, with risks embedded in smallholder livestock, informal slaughter, raw-meat consumption, wet markets, and animal-contact occupations. It proposes scaling abattoir, animal-sentinel, market, and environmental surveillance alongside livelihood-aware risk communication. This is a narrative synthesis, not a systematic review or one national survey, so it maps patterns and gaps rather than estimating current national burden.
Thai researchersStuart D. Blacksell · Syseng Khounsy · Jarunee Siengsanan-Lamont · Lida Kong · Jaison B. Kolenchery · Paul N. Newton · Nicholas P. J. Day
Using individual surveillance records from 2019–2021, this study examined both malaria case patterns and district factors associated with elimination across Sumatra. Of 13,386 reported cases, 71.8% were Plasmodium vivax; among 11,390 investigated cases, 15.3% were classified as imported. Multilevel models identified associations with mobile populations and clinical characteristics, while district elimination was associated with higher human development, lower historical burden, and fewer endemic neighbours. These are observational surveillance associations, not causal effects of a policy.
Thai researchersKarina D Lestari · Sri B Fajariyani · Pimphen Charoen · Saranath Lawpoolsri · Wirichada Pan-ngum
This synthesis mapped malaria evidence among migrant and mobile populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion across epidemiology, access, prevention, and health-system challenges. Of 847 records, 52 studies met inclusion criteria. Reported burden was generally low but highly variable, with hidden reservoirs from asymptomatic or submicroscopic infection in border and forest settings. Structural barriers contributed to delayed diagnosis, inconsistent prevention, and reliance on informal or cross-border care. The review exposes intervention-evaluation gaps rather than proving which approach works best.
Thai researchersPyae Linn Aung · Ajjima Thussachan · Naing Bo Bo Min · Jetsumon Sattabongkot
This Joanna Briggs Institute–guided scoping review synthesised 50 studies of resilience among family caregivers across cancer types and stages of care. The evidence was organised into risk factors, protective factors, and psychosocial or functional outcomes. Measurement tools varied substantially, and few interventions designed to strengthen family resilience had been tested empirically.
Thai researchersSiyu Yang · Xian Wang · Qing Li · Hunsa Sethabouppha
Using the Dahlem Framework, this commentary distinguishes caries control, elimination, and eradication. Global eradication is judged conceptually unattainable because caries has no single agent, interruptible transmission cycle, vaccine, or universal incidence surveillance. Elimination as a stable end to caries as a public-health problem in a defined population is presented as a plausible, measurable goal.
Thai researchersHabib Benzian
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Clinical Medicine
Oxyphlaeobella doitungensis Dawwrueng, Storozhenko et Suwannapoom 2026, sp. nov.
Open MIND
Thailand-affiliated authors
Pattarawich Dawwrueng · Chatmongkon Suwannapoom
Institutions
Kasetsart University · University of Phayao
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Multidisciplinary
Oxyphlaeobella Ramme 1941
Open MIND
Thailand-affiliated authors
Pattarawich Dawwrueng · Chatmongkon Suwannapoom
Institutions
Kasetsart University · University of Phayao
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Clinical Medicine
EEG for the Diagnosis of Neonatal Seizures in the Asia–Oceania Region: An International Survey Across 19 Countries by the ILAE-Young Epilepsy Section Pediatric Epilepsy Study Group
International Journal of Epilepsy
Thailand-affiliated authors
Kamornwan Katanyuwong
Institutions
Chiang Mai University
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Clinical Medicine
Stapokibart reduces blood eosinophil counts in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: a post-hoc analysis from phase II and phase III clinical trials
Journal of Dermatological Treatment
Thailand-affiliated authors
Qianjin Lu
Institutions
Institute of Dermatology
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Clinical Medicine
Left atrial remodeling and diastolic unloading after transcatheter tricuspid repair
ESC Heart Failure
Thailand-affiliated authors
Prayuth Rasmeehirun
Institutions
Navamindradhiraj University
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Clinical Medicine
Self‐Reported Periodontal Symptoms and Clinical Periodontal Status in Older Adults With and Without Dementia: A Population‐Based Diagnostic Accuracy Study
Journal Of Clinical Periodontology
Thailand-affiliated authors
Sho Takeda · Ryohei Yamamoto
Institutions
Thai Health Promotion Foundation
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Multidisciplinary
Effect of Printing Orientation and Surface Treatment on the Surface Roughness, Shear Bond Strength, and Flexural Strength of 3D-Printed Provisional Restoration Materials: An In Vitro Study
Chulalongkorn University · Naresuan University · Pathumthani University · Rangsit University · Burapha University
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Environmental Engineering
Uncovering an alternate pathway of antibiotic resistance in spore-forming bacteria
Nature Communications
Thailand-affiliated authors
Korakrit Imwattana
Institutions
Siriraj Hospital · Mahidol University
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Clinical Medicine
Rehabilitation Engineering Approach to Frozen Shoulder Treatment: Performance Analysis Using Landmark-Based Motion Detection and Assistive Feedback Systems
Lean Service Transformation Using Value Stream Mapping to Improve Time Efficiency and Reduce Operational Waste in Automotive Service Workshops
Metris Jurnal Sains dan Teknologi
Thailand-affiliated authors
Pratikshya Bhandari
Institutions
Shinawatra University
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Clinical Medicine
Influence of anatomical characteristics and tooth movement-related variables on root length changes in maxillary first molars undergoing orthodontic intrusion
Suratthani Rajabhat University · Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University · Prince of Songkla University
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Clinical Medicine
Deep Learning for Snake Species Identification to Support Snakebite Treatment: A Comparative Study of Efficient CNN and Vision Transformer Architectures