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Don’t get drowned when swimming

IT was a warm Sunday morning and most of the families were out in Coaco Beach in Davao City.  Five-year-old Jane was swimming along...

Are you having a work burnout?

Dr. Dike Drummond may not ring a bell among Filipino doctors but he is the founder and chief executive officer of The Happy MD,...

This baffling disease called Lupus

“Lupus is a disease that is hard to diagnose and hard to describe,” says Professor Pao Hsii Feng, a clinical professor at the National...

HEALTH: Are expired drugs still safe to take?

In The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays, Wendell Berry wrote: “People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or...

NEW STRAIN THREAT

Davao City Health Covid-19 focal person Dr. Ashley Lopez has recommended for a tighter border control and biosurveillance through genomic testing to prevent the...

Constantly Tired? You May Be Experiencing A Case of Iron Deficiency Anemia

Productive people have one thing in common, they ward off feelings of constant exhaustion and drowsiness thinking these are just the result of their hectic lifestyles....

J&J, UP-College of Public Health launch e-learning platform to scale up training for Filipino...

6 November 2020, Metro Manila – Johnson & Johnson (Philippines) Inc. (J&J) and the Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Public Health (CPH), University of the...

FINE-TUNED

Councilor Mary Joselle Villafuerte on Wednesday expressed optimism the refined immunization ordinance she passed in the City Council will get the support of her...

Majority of Covid-19 transmission now ‘local’

Most Covid-19 transmissions in the Davao Region are locally-acquired.Dr. Cleo Fe Tabada, head of Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (RESU 11) of the Department...
An electrician from the City General Office (GSO) installs Christmas lights at the façade of City Hall building few days before the opening ceremony of Pasko Fiesta 2016. LEAN DAVAL JR.

TESTING BOOST

The city government of Davao is increasing the city’s capacity to test Covid-19 patients by adding three more laboratories.  Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio disclosed that...