HEALTH

The new Pattaya Hospital is now one-third completed and will be fully operational by May or June of next year.

Derek McCarick, from England, has been living in Naklua, Pattaya, Thailand for over eight years. He was a taxi driver in London before he retired. Derek, 73, of Minister Isle of Sheppy, has raised almost 200,000 pounds for Leukemia research.

1. Hot Dogs Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

Tooth-colored fillings, also known as ‘Composite Fillings’ and ‘White Fillings,’ are a mixture of glass or quartz filler in a resin medium that produces a tooth-colored filling. Composite fillings tend to be used as an alternative to metal or silver amalgam fillings and are used to treat decay on a portion of the tooth or to replace an old silver amalgam filling and to maintain a white smile.

A new audit report issued by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) shows that osteoporosis is a serious and growing problem throughout Asia.

The Pattaya’s Maha Tai Foundation management recently conducted a training course for its officials and other relevant social and child organizations. The course’s purpose was to provide psychological counseling information to social and child related organizations’ management and officials so they can better provide consulting services to adults and children who have been mentally abused. The aim was to assist troubled adults and children to once again return to society and live happily, as well as, helping them protect themselves from the types of abuse they have suffered in the past.

Pattaya’s Bangkok Hospital recently conducted a ‘First Aid Training Course’ for the Sawang Boriboon Foundation’s rescuers, aimed at imparting first aid knowledge and skills at international standards. The training was divided into eight classes, attended by more than five hundred rescuers.

The event was held at the famous Hard Rock Café and was attended by guests in pink colored clothes who generously bought signature breast cancer key chains, while quenching their thirst with the Pinktober cocktail and ‘mocktails.’ For each drink sold, fifty baht was donated to the ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation.’ Limited edition Pinktober paraphernalia, such as t-shirts and pins, were also popular. Fifteen percent of the proceeds from the sales of these items went to breast cancer awareness.

Last issue, we introduced an alternative spa option—the use of natural distillation. This week, we’d like to introduce another spa idea for relaxation and health through the use of hundreds of small fish. You simply place your feet or other parts of the body into a tub of water that contains the fish. The little fish will nibble away at dead skin, causing the nerves to react and result in a tickling sensation. All customers will enjoy and be invigorated by the unique relaxation provided by these fish.

The Big Smile Dental Clinic located opposite South Pattaya's Big C Super Center has a Special Promotion for people who want to have their teeth professionally whitened at an affordable fixed price of only 3,999 baht. Most dental clinics surveyed said they charge more than 5,000 baht.