DOH-7 joins call for justice for slain doctor

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/06/2017

More than a hundred employees of the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) wore black armbands yesterday to protest the killing Dr. Dreyfuss Perlas. DOH-7 Director Dr. Jaime Bernadas said they joined the nationwide call for…

DOH-7 joins nationwide call for justice for the slain doctor

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/06/2017

CEBU CITY—More than 100 employees of the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) started wearing black armbands on Monday to seek justice for the killing of rural physician Dreyfuss Perlas last week. Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-7…

Indian doctor pulls live cockroach from woman’s head

02/09/2017

NEW DELHI — It’s the stuff of nightmares — a cockroach crawls up your nose in the middle of the night, burrows in and drives you mad with scratching behind your eyes. But for one Indian woman,…

Rent-a-car van used in abducting doctor

Nestle L. Semilla 02/07/2017

The suspects who abducted 26-year-old doctor Julian Inaki Larrazabal-Garcia used a rent-a-car vehicle said Police Regional Office (PRO 7) director Chief Supt. Noli Taliño on Tuesday. Taliño gave these updates in a press conference saying investigators are…

LAUGH LINES

Editorial 12/03/2016

IT HURTS EVERYWHERE A brunette goes to the doctor and says, “Everywhere I touch it hurts.” He asks, “What do you mean?” So she showed him what she meant. She touched her knee and said, “Ouch!” Then…

Physician nabbed with sachets of suspected shabu in Cordova

Norman V. Mendoza 11/27/2016

A physician was arrested by the police on Saturday afternoon after he was caught in possession of suspected shabu inside his clinic in Cordova town on Mactan Island. Dr. Benjamin Degamo, 42, who lives and holds clinic…

Free medical services for San Fernando folks

PR 11/16/2016

SEVEN physicians and two dentists joined community leaders and volunteer employees in a medical mission recently organized by Taiheiyo Cement Philippines Inc. (TCPI) and Solid Earth Development Corp. in Barangay Bugho, San Fernando town, southern Cebu. A…

Waterfront Cebu pays tribute to women doctors

PR 10/17/2016

IN celebration of the Pink October, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino invited some of Cebu’s women doctors to the very first Pink Affair last October 6, 2016 at the Treff Bar. A night dedicated to the…

Doctor by profession, artist by passion

Apple Ta-as 10/14/2016

On an ordinary day, you’d find Dr. Nanette Nacorda-Catigbe in a white coat treating patients in a modest clinic along N. Escario Street. But as soon as the last patient has left the office, Dr. Nanette takes…

Cebu Institute of Medicine, Cebu Doc rank high in med exam

Lesley Cara Delos Santos 09/21/2016

The Cebu Institute of Medicine ranked third among the top 10 performing schools in the September 2016 Physician Licensure Examination with a passing percentage of 97.56 percent. In results released by the Philippine Regulations Commission (PRC), the…

Coronary heart disease

08/01/2016

BLOCKAGE of the arteries supplying the heart with blood is termed “coronary heart disease” or simply CAD. The problem develops because the coronary arteries become narrowed or completely blocked by plaque. When this occurs, blood, with its…

‘Pinoy Aquaman’ to cross English Channel this Aug

Glendale G. Rosal 06/27/2016

The very ambitious albeit treacherous open water swim across the English Channel in Great Britain by the First Filipino English Channel Swim Team (FFECST) was officially launched last Friday at the Marriot Hotel in Manila. And no…

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