HEALTH: Alternatives to tobacco may help smokers quit?
Smoking is hazardous to your health!
Smokers are more likely than smokers to develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer, according to the US-based...
Memorable Health Stories of 2021
2021 was not just another year. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was still with us. But it was not as terrifying compared to the...
HEALTH: Is sugar really bad for your health?
Who doesn’t like sugar? Aside from making foods like cakes, pastries, chocolates, and soft drinks taste so good, they also make us feel good....
HEALTH: TB in the time of Covid-19 Pandemic
It may be a disease of the past but tuberculosis (TB) is still killing people – more than a million of them. In fact,...
HEALTH | Diabetes: How you can live a normal life
“Diabetes is on the rise globally, and rising faster in low- and middle-income countries,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the Geneva-based World...
HEALTH: Beating cancers on all fronts
The headline says it all: “Cancer cases on the rise.”
A news dispatch, released by the Agence France Presse (AFP), said that while cancer...
HEALTH: How Covid-19 can be curtailed
Antonio B. Partoza, Jr., a Davao businessman, said he didn’t know where he got the novel coronavirus as he was just staying in his...
HEALTH: Portrait of a Covid-19 survivor
Dr. Teofredo “Doc Ted” Esguerra, an advisory council member at the International Disaster Response Network, and I have four things in common.
We were both...
HEALTH: Science department in the forefront of medical studies
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has some good news to offer in the field of medicine.
Anti-dengue herbal capsule
For one, it is now...
HEALTH | Dementia: No total recall
Josephine knew something was happening to her husband’s one night when Fernando returned home from his office complaining that during their business meeting he...