Health

Women who had hypertension during pregnancy are at increased risk for hypertension and stroke after 40 years of age, based on follow-up data from more than 4,000 women.

ALMOST eight out of 10 Filipinos of  voting age believe that candidates  who will be elected on May 10 should also have an agenda for better health services by the government.

MORE than 30 percent of poor Filipinos own a cellular phone, but most of them do not have access to sanitary toilets and electricity, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

MANILA, Philippines – A recent survey by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) showed that more Filipinos are at-risk for lifestyle-related diseases.

A House panel has approved several measures seeking to establish breast care centers around the country amid reports that the Philippines has the highest incidence of breast cancer in the South East Asian region.

(11th of a series) For any Filipino family, especially among the poor, an illness striking any of its members is viewed as a catastrophe.

DAVAO CITY—The social pressure of urbanization has pushed lifestyle diseases up as the leading causes of death over the previous dominance of communicable diseases.  Smoking, a major trademark of urban vice, has spread the risk to more persons and increases death risk by several notches, the Department of Health (DOH) warned.

CEBU, Philippines – Summer is definitely here and has brought with it intense heat which is expected to peak this April, the season’s soaring temperatures aggravated by the onslaught of El Niño.

CHICAGO – The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 percent of U.S. women fed their babies breast milk only for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says.

The workplace is the fertile ground for tubercolosis, or TB,  the sixth  leading cause of death and illness in the Philippines, a Labor official said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine standing in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) watch list for tuberculosis improved from seventh place in 1997 to ninth place last year, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS – More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in a message to mark World Water Day.

CEBU, Philippines – Outbreaks of measles are to be expected during the summer season, but 2010 saw incidences of outbreaks as early as January.

Mercury, cyanide peril people ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR: Mercury and cyanide used by illegal miners searching for gold is threatening the environment and health of thousands of villagers in the southern province of Zamboanga Sibugay. And small-scale miners have been operating over the past decade in the province, particularly in Diplahan—a remote mountain town where tunnels…

MANILA, Philippines—Forget about the rich. This was Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral’s succinct advice to the Philippines’ next president insofar as health care was concerned.

Rising poverty, driven by population growth and other issues, leads to increasing hunger and subsequently rising diseases (and death) caused by malnutrition, unsanitary living conditions and limited access to drugs and medical care. The ones that suffer the most from poor diet and nutrition are children, especially street children.

MANILA, Philippines—About 17.3 million Filipinos aged 15 years old and above are tobacco smokers with at least 13.8 million smoking daily, the Philippine Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) showed.

Here’s my list for the healthiest and locally-available fruits. Enjoy these super fruits for your health.

MANILA, Philippines – At least 97 medicines will be sold at half their original prices starting March 31, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral announced Friday.

Most people are familiar with diseases of the arteries since they account for heart attacks (coronary arteries), most strokes (the carotid arteries and smaller arteries in the brain), and many amputations (the leg arteries). And here’s more: Arterial disorders are also the culprits in many cases of kidney failure, dementia, intestinal bleeding, and even erectile…

In a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researchers found people who sat more had a higher death risk, independently of whether or not they exercised.

We pay tribute to love on St. Valen-tine’s Day, but is the hoopla really warranted from a health standpoint? After all, love and its libidinous soul mate, passion, have led to countless calamities — some of them spectacularly tragic but most anonymously sad: the unrequited romance, the bad marriage, the ill-fated affair. As a mental…

MANILA, Philippines – More young people are suffering from cardiovascular diseases due to unhealthy lifestyle habits in the workplace, the Philippine Heart Association (PHA) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Even as the Department of Tourism (DOT) continues to promote faith or spiritual healing as part of its medical tourism program, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral said yesterday that these forms of healing are not recognized in the professional medical community.

MANILA, Philippines—Cancer deaths worldwide would more than double in the next 20 years if people do not change their lifestyles, according to the World Health Organization.

SINGAPORE: Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.

This is not about the 1998 Bruce Willis-starrer/action thriller where Willis plays an undercover FBI agent tasked to protect a nine-year-old autistic boy who’s being pursued by assassins for cracking a top secret government code. It’s about the rising mercury wastes in our midst. From your high school science subject, you’ve probably learned that mercury…

Imagine receiv-ing a call saying that a family member is sick. What should you do? What’s the first aid in this situation? During emergencies, it pays to be knowledgeable in basic home remedies and first aid. Let’s look at nine common problems:

QUALIFIED Philhealth members and their dependents may now avail of an outpatient blood transfusion benefit starting Feb. 1.

MANILA, Philippines – More than half of the country’s annual expenditures for health products ranging from P100 billion to P150 billion are unnecessary because they hardly provide any therapeutic effect, former health secretary Alberto Romualdez said yesterday.