HEALTH: BEAT Colon Cancer first before it beats you
Wilfredo grew up in a small town in Bansalan, Davao del Sur. He used to eat vegetables, which his parents brought from their farm...
HEALTH: DRUG ADDICTION: MOTHER OF ALL CRIMES
“I don’t like people involved
in drugs. I don’t care if they are soldiers or policemen. I tell them
that drug dealers and criminals in my city have only...
HEALTH: Go out and swim this summer
“Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” That was what Edward Stanley...
HEALTH: MEASLES STRIKE AGAIN
“Measles is incredibly resilient and our success is fragile. If we drop our guard, this disease will regain a foothold and spread like wildfire once...
HEALTH: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PNEUMONIA
“There is a pneumonia outbreak here in
the Philippines,” the post cautioned.
The warning was posted in the social
media by a person whose two friends reportedly...
HEALTH: HEPATITIS B IS DEADLIER THAN YOU THINK
If
it was tuberculosis (TB) in the past, then it’s hepatitis B
today. Both are serious public health problems and they have one
thing in common: discrimination.
In
the olden...
HEALTH: TOO MUCH ADO ABOUT SALT
It is one of the ingredients in oral rehydration therapy which can save a child from diarrhea. It tastes like your tears. In search for it,...
HEALTH: TB continues to take toll among Filipinos
Manuel L. Quezon, the president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, was in exile in the United States when he died of tuberculosis (TB)...
HEALTH: TOBACCO IS NOT JUST FOR SMOKING
When Christopher Columbus returned to
Spain after discovering America in 1492, one of the things he brought back was
tobacco. Five hundred years later, smoking has...
HEALTH: Why are we getting old?
During a beauty contest held in a historic hotel in Manila a couple of years back, the host asked one of the contenders: “How...