WHO declares global emergency over virus from China

01/31/2020

GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more…

WHO Philippines: No confirmed 2019-nCoV in the Philippines to date

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines -The Philippine bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO – Philippines) has announced that there is no confirmed case of the 2019 novel coronavirus in the Philippines to date. WHO Philippines released the statement…

Capitol to Cebuanos: Avoid public places amid reports of mysterious disease in China

Rosalie Abatayo 01/06/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines —  Barely two weeks before the Fiesta Señor, the Capitol has warned Cebuanos against going to crowded areas amid the outbreak of a “mysterious” strain of pneumonia in China. In a disease outbreak news…

Excessive drinking killed over 3 million people in 2016

AP 11/18/2018

GENEVA — Drinking too much alcohol killed more than three million people in 2016, mostly men, the World Health Organization said. The U.N. health agency also warned that current policy responses are not sufficient to reverse trends…

21 Badjao kids rushed to Bohol hospital; amoebiasis seen

Inquirer.net 02/09/2017

DAUIS, Bohol — At least 21 children from the Badjao community in Barangay (village) Totolan here were rushed to the hospital after showing symptoms of amoebiasis. The Badjao children, aged one to 12, complained of stomach ache…

Carrageenan makers in PH gear up for tough battle ahead

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/21/2016

Stakeholders in the Philippine seaweed industry will appeal the decision of the US-based National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to ban the use of carrageenan as an additive in organic food. Maximo Ricohermoso, chairman of the Seaweed Industry…

The non-negotiable right to health

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 10/23/2016

Health is wealth — an old adage that rings true for all generations. However, not a few realize its full meaning when illness strikes. It is amazing that each part of our body works in perfect synchronicity…

DENGUE OUTBREAK

Nestle L. Semilla with Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/10/2016

Expressing alarm over the 200 percent increase in dengue fever cases in the province, the Cebu Provincial Board yesterday decided to declare a dengue outbreak in the whole province. The declaration, however, should not be a cause…

Killer superbugs on the rise

Philip S. Chua 08/08/2016

SINCE Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist (a 1945 Nobel laureate), first discovered penicillin in 1923, hundreds of more potent wider spectrum antibiotics have been added to the medical armamentarium. These lifesaving drugs have…

‘Virus could spread worldwide’

02/05/2016

Montevideo – South American health ministers held an emergency meeting on slowing the spread of the Zika virus, dubbed a “nightmare” by hard-hit Brazil, where it is blamed for brain damage in babies. With health authorities warning…

WHO: ‘Meat is carcinogenic’

Dr. Philip S. Chua 11/01/2015

ON OCT. 29, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that “the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans and processed meat as carcinogenic to humans.“…

Lapu-Lapu gov’t steps up measures against MERS

Norman V. Mendoza 06/18/2015

LAPU-LAPU City’s tourism commission  will call a meeting with hotel, resort and restaurant operators to discuss  preventive measures against possible cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Lapu-Lapu City Tourism Officer Hembler Mendoza said he will…

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