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About 12 inmates of the Lapu-Lapu City Jail are under medication after they tested positive for tuberculosis. Jail officials had the inmates examined at the facility’s clinic which confirmed that they are suffering from the disease. Warden…
Eating light and healthy is a lifestyle that’s gaining popularity. And the Lenten Season is a good reason to start and embrace this healthy habit. Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort & Spa’s invitation for an exclusive cooking class by…
Twelve out of 2,442 inmates in the Cebu City Jail tested positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). They are not isolated from the others. The City Health Department is giving them anti-retrovirus drugs weekly. Cebu City Health…
I’ve received so much advice in my lifetime … advice on beauty, health, relationships, career, and other random topics under the sun. Some of these I heeded carefully, some I forgot about and realized later, and some…
A patient in his 20s was transferred from Toledo City Hospital to Vicente Sotto Memorail Medical Center in Cebu City after his belly got bloated, which doctors said may be due to bacteria affecting his intestine. The…
Here’s one reason teenage girls should avoid having premarital sex. More than half of the 6,670 cases of cervical cancer in the country were contracted by teenage girls last year, the Department of Health in Central Visayas…
Opponents of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law warned women not to use Implanon, a new contraceptive introduced by the regional implementation team (RIT) of the law. In yesterday’s press conference, Dr. Rene Josef Bullecer, country…
The management of the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) is investigating a family’s complaint that rats in the morgue had eaten the nose of a cadaver of a gunshot victim past midnight yesterday. CCMC director for administration…
The Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (Resu-7) of the Department of Health is looking into the death of a 1-year-old girl in Medellin town, northern Cebu who reportedly died of meningococcemia on January 22. There is, however, no…
The regional office of the National Nutrition Council (NNC-7) appealed to the public to use iodized salt in adding flavor to their food in order to avoid contracting goiter. At yesterday’s forum at the Philippine Information Agency,…
The Mandaue City government condoles with the family of Jocelyn Coliflores who died at a hospital after being admitted there for fever. The city government is investigating reports that she died due to alleged erroneous diagnosis and…
What is Anthrax? Anthrax, also known as Wool Sorter’s disease, is a virulent infectious disease of animals (mostly farm animals, especially ruminants, like sheep, horses, cattle, swine and goats) transmitted to humans by contact with the animals…
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