We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By continuing, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. To find out more, please click this link.
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Laughter is a gift and even during the hardest times, there is so much for you to enjoy when you learn to appreciate the little things. This is one of the life lessons…
WASHINGTON — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure…
NEW YORK— Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them. The dramatic experiment…
House Senior Deputy Speaker and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has pushed anew to legalize and regulate the use of medical cannabis for patients with debilitating medical illnesses. House Bill No. 7817, or the “Philippine Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act,” noted that “thousands…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four graduates from Cebu-based universities made it to the Top 10 of the March 2023 Medical Technologists Licensure Examination. Nijell Tiu Potencioso and Khelly Mae Binondo Villarin, who are graduates of Velez College,…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Medical and non-medical workers here may soon receive their COVID-19 allowance. City Councilor Joel Seno, chairman of the Finance and Budget and Committee on Laws, said that they had already adopted the legal…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is asking the Sangguniang Panglungsod (City Council) to allot a budget of P54 million to help the medical workers deployed in Cebu City to augment the medical health…
MANILA, Philippines — Twelve medical experts from China are set to arrive in the Philippines over the weekend to assist the government in responding to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in the country, the Chinese Embassy in…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Starting Monday, July 15, Cebu City residents will see ambulances roaming around the city streets waiting to respond to any medical emergency. Councilor David Tumulak, the chairman of the committee on disaster risk…
GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization has for the first time recognized “burn-out” in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers. The decision, reached during…
LOOK: Residents of Barangay Sambag 2 in Cebu City trooped to their barangay gym earlier today, March 2, to avail of the free medical and dental services offered by volunteers from Friends Indeed USA Inc., Red Poinsettia…
SM Foundation is extending health and wellness programs to the marginalized members of society with the goal of creating sustainable communities. Through its medical mission program called Gamot Para sa Kapwa, SM Foundation provides free, comprehensive, accessible…
We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By continuing, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. To find out more, please click this link.