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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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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