First endobronchial ultrasound procedures in PH
To recommend the best treatment for one’s lung cancer, it is very important for the doctor to know how far the cancer has progressed.
To recommend the best treatment for one’s lung cancer, it is very important for the doctor to know how far the cancer has progressed.
Up until the early 20th century, being diagnosed with diabetes was essentially a death sentence. Without an effective treatment, patients died due to ketoacidosis, a complication of uncontrolled diabetes in which the body produces high levels of toxic blood acids called ketones.1
International health experts are closely monitoring the recently discovered new avian influenza A(H7N9) virus which has emerged into a severe, life-threatening infection.
Sales of fast food giant KFC in China slumped an estimated 36 percent last month, according to parent Yum! Brands, as consumers shunned chicken due to the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in humans.
John, at 62, had gone from being a CEO (chief executive officer) of a Fortune 500 company to a nursing home resident in just a matter of six months. After a devastating stroke, his doctors held little hope of any significant recovery. What John had often referred to as “just a little high blood pressure” had destroyed his world.
Teaching Filipinos about the benefits of practicing a healthy lifestyle can be a challenge. Just ask Dr. Adolfo Bellosillo, president and founder of the Foundation for Lay Education on Heart Diseases (FLEHD), who had to conceive a novel way of holding his organization’s free public lectures.
I am frequently asked by my patients, and sometimes by other physicians, if chelation therapy helps patients with blocked arteries in the heart. Several clinics in Metro Manila and other key cities in the country are offering it as an alternative to heart bypass surgery or angioplasty, another intervention used to clear the obstruction when the heart arteries are occluded such that the normal blood flow to the heart is impaired. The patient usually has chest pains or a feeling of tightness in the chest radiating to the neck or right shoulder.
Diabetes care pioneer Novo Nordisk has developed a novel type of medicine for type 2 diabetes that controls blood sugar the natural way.
In a nursery of a private maternity hospital in Athens, three mothers feed their newborns while another three babies nap nearby.
For some strange reason, dengue-virus-carrying mosquitoes prefer to bite humans between 4 to 6 a.m. and again between 4 to 6 p.m. These magic hours are what the Department of Health is taking advantage of these days to curb the spread of a potentially deadly infection.
Folllowing our commentary in a previous column on the suicide of Kristel Tejada, a 16-year-old student at the University of the Philippines Manila, we received a lot of feedback from our readers on the subject.
Sixty years ago, scientist Francis Crick avoided breaking embargo on his own scientific publication about the structure of the DNA helix by writing the paper by first sending off a letter detailing his findings to his then 12-year-old son.
