SWU PHINMA Announces SY 2019-2020 School of Medicine Scholars

PR 05/05/2019

In its continuing mission to help students become the best that they can be, Southwestern University PHINMA (SWU PHINMA) announces the third batch of freshmen recipients of the Chairman’s and the Presidential’s scholarships for the School of…

BFF Goals: From nursing classmates to medical exam topnotchers

Immae Lachica and Gresheen Gift Libby 03/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines– Daniel Panaglima, Jessa Elaine Fronda, and Wilma Cleo Borja Dapog shared a common dream of becoming doctors one day. The three friends fulfilled their childhood dream this year with the addition of landing on…

DVMF eyes rabies-free Cebu City as it gears up for Rabies Awareness month

Immae Lachica 03/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City as a rabies free city. This is the goal of the city’s Department of Veterinary Medicine and Fisheries (DVMF) as it prepares for this month’s Rabies Awareness celebration. Dr. Alice Utlang,…

Hospitalization, medicine program needs additional P55M

USJ-R Journalism Intern Zena V. Magto 09/06/2018

The Department of Social Welfare Services (DSWS) in Cebu City is seeking an additional appropriation of P55 million for the City Hospitalization Assistance and Medicines Program (CHAMP). In a budget hearing on Thursday (September 6), Cebu City…

Man selling counterfeit medicine books nabbed

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 08/29/2018

  Agents of the NBI on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly producing counterfeit medicine books along F. Ramos Street in Cebu City. William Almacen was arrested in an entrapment operation in F. Ramos Street, Cebu City.…

More fun CDU Intramurals gets going

Glendale G. Rosal 08/28/2018

THIS year’s University Week of the Cebu Doctors’ University (CDU) officially kicked off with a bang yesterday at the school’s premises at the North Reclamation Area in Mandaue City. With the additional 400 students enrolled in Grade…

MAO BA?

MAO BA? 03/26/2018

FAKE MEDICINE Netizens were alarmed over an advisory by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the presence of fake paracetamol tablets in the local market. Brendalou Sales wrote, “Daghan na kaayo items karon na fake not…

Fake medicines flourish in Africa

AFP 01/17/2018

There’s nothing covert about Roxy – a huge market in Abidjan selling counterfeit medicine, the scourge of Africa and the cause of around 100,000 deaths annually on the world’s poorest continent. Located in the bustling Adjame quarter…

Construction of cancer center starts Dec. 1

Futch A. Inso 11/29/2017

WORK on the cancer center of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) starts tomorrow, December 1, a hospital official said yesterday. Dr. Antonio Roque Paradela, VSMMC chief of professional medical clinics, said the cancer center building…

Pre-meds for HIV patients

Futch Anthony Inso, Intern 11/29/2017

PRE-EXPOSURE medicines may soon be given to those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS, the regional Department of Health (DOH-7) office said yesterday. Dr. Van Philip Baton, coordinator of the DOH’s Re-Emerging Infectious Disease…

Her millennial voice

Niza Mariñas, Rob Gonzales 10/21/2017

  WHEN “Eat Bulaga” host and newscaster Luane Dy announced that among the 38 contestants vying for the title of Miss Millennial Philippines, one 17-year-old caught her attention as she came unperturbed with no makeup on, viewers took…

No hospital deposit for injured CPPO cops at UCMed, St. Vincent

Intern 09/13/2017

THE Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) has entered into an agreement with the University of Cebu Medical Center (UC-Med) and St. Vincent General Hospital on Monday. Under the agreement, policemen who are injured while on duty can…

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