Health

It is no longer possible to contain the deadly swine flu virus first found in Mexico, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. As a potential pandemic edges closer, governments around the world have been stepping up precautions against its spread.

People who are in a hurry oftentimes eat breakfast outside the house to start the day right. Diners spend extra cash to taste new dishes and all-time favorites or to simply treat a family member or friend in a restaurant and savor the gustatory delights the place has to offer to its patrons.

While we can’t turn back time, we can certainly try to extend it. By eating healthy and keeping your nutrition in check, you’d be surprised at how much better you’ll feel. Your body will thank you for years, as well. We got the 411 from iVillage diet and nutrition expert, Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, about which…

Postmenopausal women who have breastfed a child have a lower risk of heart attacks, stroke and cardiovascular disease, a study released Tuesday found.

Let’s face it. There are a whole lot of lonely people out there. They live life wondering if anybody cares. Sure they know in their minds that there are people who love and care for them, but they get carried away by negative feelings that drag them down and threaten their happiness.

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Washington (ANTARA News) – Regularly eating meat cooked at a high temperature, to the point of charring, could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 60 percent, according to researchers.

Back pains are very common and the in the Philippines, about 80 percent of Filipino adults suffer back pain at some time of their lives, according to Dr. Ken Sison, a graduate of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cleveland College of Chiropractic, also in LA.

Some of the most amazing discoveries in medicine occur when researchers notice that a drug meant to treat one thing can treat something else. One of the best-known examples is aspirin. While it is a commonly used painkiller, doctors discovered it also helps prevent heart attacks.

FILIPINO health researchers have produced breakthroughs that contribute new knowledge, techniques, preventive strategies and pharmaceuticals.

HEALTH research in the Philippines has crossed over from mostly intellectual work into practical and expanding applications.

Problem is not that we have too few health research work. “DYNAMIC, realistic, responsive, and relevant.” This is what health research in the Philippines should be, according to Dr. Jaime Montoya, executive director of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines — The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) is extending by three months the medical insurance coverage of hundreds of workers who were laid off as a result of the global recession.

Happiness could benefit your health more than giving up smoking. In the Scottish Borders they are trying out a new and quite unusual kind of medicine – happiness.

PARIS (AFP) — These are dangerous times: suicide rates go up in the spring and during an economic downturn, an analysis of suicide trends published Friday shows.

Of course, we all want to be healthy. But you know you don’t know how. Or you don’t know that you don’t know. You don’t know what we’re talking about, do you? Consumer advocate Kevin Trudeau, who’s built a $2-billion global business empire, calls it unconscious incompetence or conscious incompetence.

Playing instruments lowers feelings of job-related burnout: Study   LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – For optometrist Howard Levy, nothing eases the tension of daily eye exams and mounting paperwork like strapping on a guitar and jamming with fellow eye-care professionals in a rock band dubbed OffAxis.

“UNBELIEVABLE,” I shook my head as I listened to stories of these two women. One, a few years older than I, was a financially secure and accomplished businesswoman. Isabel (not her name) took great pains to make it seem that her husband Ralph was doing well himself. She always made sure to praise him, and…

I count myself lucky to have survived two tough years of unemployment with mounting financial problems during the period after 9/11 right up to the SARS epidemic. My family had just returned from overseas as we were away for a year on study purposes. The situation was made worse when we decided to buy a…

A virus contracted through oral sex is the cause of some throat cancers, say US scientists. HPV infection was found to be a much stronger risk factor than tobacco or alcohol use, the Johns Hopkins University study of 300 people found.

Traffic pollution was identified as a significant problem. Exposure to traffic pollution could affect the development of babies in the womb, US researchers have warned.

MANILA, Philippines – There are five stages of hurt in the healing process: Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression and Acceptance.

A flatoxin in pistachios? Are you nuts? In a nutshell, this is how pistachios — those expensive nuts with greenish kernels that our dear thoughtful relatives abroad bother to send us by the bushels via balikbayan box — may get contaminated by aflatoxin: The pistachio shell is enclosed in a protective hull. A month or…

MANILA, Philippines – Dr. Michael Eades in his article “Meat and mortality” said, “The news is abuzz with reports of the latest study to come out showing that eating meat, especially red meat, kills us off before our time.”

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Illustration of electromagnetic frequency from www.weizmann.ac.il The information I am about to share may very well change your life significantly. Nothing esoteric. Just information. There’s this little boy who did not sleep well in his room … a family who couldn’t heal their candida infection … this lady who had consistent pains in her upper…

Making medical care more accessible to the poor is a challenge the country needs to address, says Dr. Portia Marcelo, coordinator of the Urban Community Based Health Program of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine.

MANILA, Philippines – Pre-menopausal women face various health risks that can be best addressed by choosing the food items that would help them combat such diseases as osteoporosis and anemia.

When both partners are of one mind to end a relationship, the pain will be substantially less. Though both will mourn the loss of time, effort, emotional investment and money that were put into the failed love, at least both now recognize that the relationship has outlived its usefulness and the time has come to…

The Philippines is one of the 22 high-burdened countries with tuberculosis based on the World Health Organization Watch List, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said.