Bulacan Offer High-tech World-class Surgery
Barely 24 hours after undergoing laparoscopic surgery at the operating room of the Sacred Heart Hospital for hernia here last week, a 38-year old American seaman was on his way to rendezvous with his...
View ArticlePhilippine Herbal Medicine Can Save Your Health
By Honor Blanco Cabie Manila – Tata Tito Abriol, Tata Liberato Benavidez and Manong Paquito Urbano are all rice and tobacco farmers in northern Philippines. But they also share, apart from their being...
View ArticleEnroll Filipinos in PhilHealth Healthcare Program
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will distribute close to 2,000 ID cards for indigent families in Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya Friday as part of its mission to increase the number...
View ArticleDengue Hits Vietnam
The dengue epidemic is expected to peak in Viet Nam in September following recent heavy rainfalls, said deputy head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Tran Thanh Duong. A...
View ArticlePoultry Products from Netherlands Banned in Philippines
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has temporarily suspended the importation of poultry and other poultry products from the Netherlands following the reported outbreak of Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza...
View ArticleHealth Care Benefits of PhilHealth
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) president and chief executive officer Dr. Eduardo Banzon has assured members of additional health care benefits through the Universal Health Care...
View ArticleSubstandard Ingredients in China-made Medicine
China’s food and drug watchdog has told the country’s pharmaceutical firms to carefully scrutinize their material sources to prevent substandard ingredients being used in medicine. The State Food and...
View ArticleDengue Now Very Alarming in Iloilo, Philippines
Cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever in this city increased by around 597 percent with 1,784 and 12 casualties from January to August this year compared with the 256 cases and six fatalities for the same...
View ArticleEuropean Community-funded Out Patient Department
The P74-million European Community-funded Out Patient Department (OPD) of the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH) is expected to be completed in November this year and to be fully operational in...
View ArticleWhy Dengue Prevention Must Continue
The Department of Health (DOH) Tuesday asked the public not to be complacent on dengue despite the downward trend on cases these past weeks. “Hindi natin masasabi, Pwedeng ma-reverse and trend anytime...
View ArticleSeafood Processing Plant built by Korean government for Dagupan City
The P100-million Seafood Processing Plant built by the Korean government for Dagupan City is not designed for commercial operation, having a gross capacity of only five tons per day. This was...
View ArticleAIDS Victims in Malaysia
Malaysian Aids Council president, Datuk Dr Raj Karim, urged employers to provide job opportunities to people with HIV to enable them to be independent and self-sufficient. She said the current stigma...
View ArticleCubans Reject Antibiotics
Cuban health authorities are seeing widepsread adverse reactions to medication, especially antibiotics, among the general population, Cuba’s state-run daily Granma said Tuesday. Citing Ismary Alfonso...
View ArticleDengue Fever in Costa Rica
A total of 8,480 people have been affected by dengue fever in Costa Rica, marking a year-on-year increase of 36 percent, showed an official report released Monday. The report from the Costa Rican...
View ArticleCholera Outbreak in Sierra Leone
As of Sept. 16, a total of 18,508 cases have been reported in the ongoing cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone and of these, 271 people died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. The highest...
View Article66 Percent of Americans Are Obese
About 66.4 percent of adults in the U.S. state of Oklahoma could be obese by 2030, according to a new study released Tuesday. The number of obese adults, along with related disease rates and health...
View ArticleRelationship Between Obesity and Children and Adolescents
U.S. researchers have revealed a significant association between obesity and children and adolescents with higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA) , a synthetic chemical recently banned by...
View ArticleTB Health Facility in Pampanga, Philippines
The Dept. of Health and the provincial government of Pampanga have agreed to jointly construct a facility solely for tuberculosis patients. Dr. Leonita Gorgolon, DOH-Center for Health and Development...
View ArticleHow India Fights Polio Virus Affecting Children
After its removal from the list of polio-endemic nations, India has been told to concentrate on its migrant population to ensure no further case of polio virus. Sharing its information on migrant...
View ArticleBird Flu Virus in Mexico
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday announced that the bird flu having broken out four months ago in the western Jalisco state has been “totally controlled.” “After 68 days with no new cases...
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