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.
Scientists in the United States have developed a method to make a disembodied brain transparent, allowing them to study the organ’s intricate wiring without having to slice it up.
When architect Shamcey Supsup was training for the Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant at the Araneta Center, she and the other contestants would run to Watsons at Gateway Mall to replenish their makeup or buy plasters for their blistered ankles. For her soft tresses, Supsup also swears by the Babyliss curling iron which she bought from the store.
A hotdog a day keeps the cancer in your behind. Yes, you read that right. Dr. Neal Barnard of the US-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), in his April 2 blog, remarked that the opening of the Major League Baseball teams this week also “kicks off the season of increased colorectal cancer risk for baseball fans.”
If you know someone who is suffering from the flu, you might want to keep your distance—by at least 6 feet—as potentially infectious flu virus particles sneezed or coughed up by the sick person can travel that distance, according to one recent study done in the United States.
We sincerely sympathize with the family of Kristel Tejada, a 16-year-old first year behavioral science student from the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila, who committed suicide late last week.
