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SO, YOU WANT TO HAVE A CHILD?

Robert and Chanda had been married for five years already.  Both were successful in their chosen careers: Robert as bank manager and Chanda as...

In Focus: Palliative and Hospice Care

Passion and compassion — two of the most powerful words in the English dictionary. In real life, these two establishes the connection between and...

Sleep: How much you really need?

“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the...

Men, watch out for lung cancer

(Photos taken from the net) Every year, more Filipinos are dying of lung cancer.  In fact, lung cancer leads among the top five cancers leading to death...

HEALTH: Who wants to have a beautiful skin?

What is the largest organ of the body?  Skin, that’s what. “Skin serves many important functions, including regulating body temperature, maintaining water and electrolyte balance,...

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)...

 Breast cancer: Women’s worst nightmare

16WHEN someone tells you breast cancer, what comes into your mind immediately?  Death sentence, that's what.  This is especially true among women. Understandably so.  Around...

HEALTH: Cancer: The unknown killer

“Cancer will remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide.” – World Health Organization “I don’t know where I’m now physically, but I have...

HEALTH: SO, YOU WANT TO DRINK?

Eighteen-year old Marc recalled gulping “way too many” alcoholic drinks after a Friday afternoon class with two of his friends in a nearby bar.  First,...

Golden rice in the offing

While Provitamin A Biofortified Rice Event GR2E, more popularly known as golden rice, has received positive assessment from three international regulatory bodies (the US Food and Drug Administration, Food...