Health

MANILA, Philippines – Seventy-five Filipinos die of tuberculosis (TB) every day, making the disease still the number one threat to human health in the country, the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) said.

SOME 250,000 Filipino families struggle financially each year with high costs of health care, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Dear PAO, I am writing in relation to our very bad experience when we brought our mother in a certain hospital in Manila, when she had one of her attacks.

Government spending on social and economic services is important to economic development. The question is, how has the government performed on this front? A recent economic analysis of public expenditure by the World Bank provides a good answer to these questions. The study pays particular attention to government spending on education, public health, and infrastructure…

A program aimed at overcoming malnutrition primarily among underprivileged children, particularly pre-school and elementary school children, will be launched on Friday, Feb. 11, by its primary advocate, Sen. Edgardo Angara. Called “Oh My Gulay!” (OMG), the program will encourage families to plant and eat vegetables, and be more concerned with nutrition. OMG will get schools…

I welcome our classmates from the UST Medicine Class of 1965, many of them from abroad, who are here to celebrate our Sapphire Jubilee reunion and homecoming. This piece is for you, guys.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is transforming primary school yards into vegetable gardens in a bid to fight US-inspired junk food addictions that are causing an explosion of health problems throughout society.

LONDON – The stress of being exposed to economic insecurity may mean people living in countries with so-called “free market” economies are more likely to become obese, British researchers said on Friday.

RP’s neglected nutrition security problem Millions of children throughout Southeast and South Asia are not getting the nutrition they need for proper physical and mental development during childhood or to maximize their productivity as adults. To help fight this, the European Union has just announced a 20 million euros grant to Unicef to tackle undernutrition…

To prevent the spread of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the workplace without discriminating against infected workers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has issued a seven-point guideline on dealing with the situation.

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — With the high infant and maternal mortality rates among Filipinos living below the poverty line, a young lawmaker is confident Congress will pass early this year the proposed mandatory health care coverage for all.

The country’s attention in the last few days has been riveted on the casualties from the New Year revelry. Cameras focused on the grimacing faces of the victims while medical professionals ran around trying to do what they could given the dire situation; and I refer not only to the seemingly endless stream of victims…

MANILA, Philippines—The European Union has given 36 million euros for the second phase of the Health Sector Policy Support Program (HSPSP II) following its recent launch at the Department of Foreign Affairs.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines and the European Union (EU) have signed the 36-million euro (about P2.12 billion) second phase of the Health Sector Policy Support Program (HSPSP).

MANILA, Philippines – The poor and elderly nationwide can look forward to better access to health care in the coming year with the availability of eight new mobile clinics for the use of government-run hospitals.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) is now reviewing the ban on non-directed organ donation because of the rising number of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) waiting for kidney donors.

Lung cancer remains the deadliest type of cancer globally accounting for more deaths than the combined mortality rate for other types of cancer, including breast, colon, kidney, liver, skin and prostate. Each year, 1.18 million people die as a result of the disease, equating to more than 3,000 deaths worldwide everyday or two deaths per…

CEBU, Philippines – After Cebu Vice Governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr.’s publicized theory that chicken manure caused the outbreak of typhoid fever in the southwestern town of Alegria, the Department of Health (DOH) contradicted his claim by saying that typhoid fever is primarily caused by human waste.

The Philippines and the European Union on Friday signed a €36-million support pact for the country’s health program, aimed at improving the delivery of health services in key areas in the country.

FEATURE Bacteria that thrive on arsenic have been scooped from a California lake, a discovery that redefines the building blocks of life and offers new hope in the search for other organisms on Earth and beyond.

MANILA, Philippines – The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday launched in the Philippines the 2010 “World Health Report,” where it strongly recommended an increase in tobacco and alcohol taxes to raise funds for health insurance.

The government is proposing a 13.6-percent increase in the budget of the Department of Health (DOH) for 2011 mainly to build more health centers and provide health insurance to poor families.

MANILA, Philippines –  Based on Department of Health (DOH) figures, 10% or 1 of every 10 medicines in the country is fake, according to the Samahan Laban sa Pekeng Gamot (Samahan).

As chairman of the Zuellig Family Foundation I hosted the annual Health Outlook Forum last month. One of the facilitators of the break out session on “ICT in Health” was Dr. Emmanuel C. Lallana, CEO of ideacorp. Secretary Ona considered this topic one of the most significant items he would focus on during his incumbency.…

BAGAC, Bataan, Philippines – A 1959 law that governs the country’s medical profession has become obsolete and should be replaced by a new law, according to the Philippine Medical Association (PMA).

Heavy smoking in middle age more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia later in life, according to one of the first long-term studies to examine the issue.

You’ve heard about the usual tips to prevent heart disease. You know about the bad effects of cigarette smoking, alcohol, fatty foods, and stress. You know that you have to control your blood sugar and blood pressure to prevent diabetes and high blood pressure, respectively. But what more could you do to protect your heart?…

MANILA, Philippines — The World Health Organizations (WHO) has called on all governments to expand their education and training programs, along with measures to improve recruitment, performance, and retention of healthcare workers, especially in rural and underserved areas.

MANILA, Philippines – Do you want to improve your health and fight off cancer? Maybe you have a history of cancer in your family or a loved one is battling the disease. Maybe you’re dealing with cancer yourself or trying to prevent a recurrence.

THE OTHER week, we looked at why the State finds it hard to regulate smoking (because each man is free to imperil his own health), and how the State can overcome that liberty argument (because we are not free to poison others with second-hand smoke and because the public bears the invisible costs of tobacco-related…