Man who slept wearing contact lenses went partially blind after flesh-eating bacteria infects his eye

The Straits Times / Asia News Network 02/27/2023

SINGAPORE — He used to lead an active lifestyle playing baseball and hitting the gym but now spends most of his time at home in darkness with the curtains drawn. Mr Michael Krumholz, a 21-year-old man from…

Lechon downs several individuals in CV

Morexette Marie B. Erram 06/07/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The delectable lechon (roasted pig in English), like any other food, must be handled properly, health officials here urged the public. This after the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) reported…

A bacteria, not a virus, was the ‘COVID-19’ of our colonial past

Jobers Reynes Bersales 03/22/2020

At the small plaza honoring Rajah Humabon just across the Archdiocesan Museum of Cebu today is an obelisk that very few recognize. It is but a miniature version of gargantuan Egyptian obelisks of old but intended to…

Some hospital bacteria growing ‘tolerant’ to sanitizers

AFP 08/05/2018

TAMPA—Some hospital superbugs are growing increasingly tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants found in hand washes and sanitizers, allowing increasing infections to take hold, an Australian study has warned. Hand rubs and washes that contain disinfectants based on isopropyl…

BetterAir for a Better Quality of Life

PR 01/30/2017

MOST of us love to kill bacteria but doing so depletes good bacteria as well, and inevitably leads to an environmental imbalance with undesirable side effects. As the world’s first and only air and surface purifier, BetterAir…

Landfill finally gets a dose of enzymes

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/30/2016

Expect Cebu City’s sanitary landfill in Barangay Inayawan to stink less in the coming days. After the purchase of P400 thousand worth of deodorizers using the city’s Accelerated Social Amelioration Program (ASAP) funds, bigger amounts of enzymes…

Antibacterial soap banned

Dr. Philip S. Chua 09/12/2016

WHEN antibacterial soap was first introduced in the 1980s, the medical community was concerned that its worldwide use could someday lead to micro-organisms developing resistance to antibiotics, rendering future patients and their physicians helpless in fighting bacterial…

Water sampling in schools amid supply concerns

06/14/2016

THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) conducted water sampling at the Cebu City Central School, the second of 11 schools it is visiting to help ensure their water supply is safe for the schoolchildren. MCWD community relations…

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