The Department of Health (DOH) has failed to contain the spread of the dengue virus with the number of cases in the first month of the year already breaching the DOH’s projection of 80,000 dengue cases for the entire year.
In Cebu, everybody, it seems, is a relative of soon-to-be saint Blessed Pedro Calungsod.
The Aquino administration should see the rising number of students in the Philippines as a solution and not a problem that can be solved by population management, the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said.
The tobacco companies do more harm than good to the farmers that supply them with tobacco leaves for their cigarettes, according to a public health expert.
The biggest organization of Catholic schools in the country will not disown Ateneo de Manila University after some of its professors appeared to defy the local Catholic Church and the university itself by offering support to the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill pending in Congress.
Give her a chance, it’s only fair. Catholic Church leaders on Monday issued guarded statements on the appointment by President Benigno Aquino of Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to replace ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Senators should look beyond the revenue to be generated by a proposal to increase tobacco and alcohol taxes and instead see it as a life-saving measure and a health bill, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
Established in 1571, Intramuros used to be Manila’s beating heart during the three centuries of Spanish colonial rule, the seat of power where political and economic decisions shaping the fate of Filipinos were made.
The cardiologist of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has apologized after being scolded by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) for publicly saying that she needed immediate cervical spine surgery and that she should get it abroad because there were no specialists here who could handle the operation.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s cardiologist, Dr. Roberto Anastacio, has apologized for claims he made regarding the former President’s condition and the kind of treatment she should be getting, after being rebuked by the Philippine Medical Association, PMA officials said Thursday.
Robert’s Rules of Order will be the working bible in the Church-led effort to squash the reproductive health (RH) bill.
It’s not exactly an inquisition but 159 members of the Ateneo de Manila University faculty may face investigation for heresy, and sacked—not excommunicated—if found guilty.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo does not need to travel abroad to get expert medical attention, an official of the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) said Saturday.
