Know your numbers, check BP regularly
By Jocelyn R. Uy
Know your numbers. Skip your favorite processed foods and be positive.

Know your numbers. Skip your favorite processed foods and be positive.

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago suffered from hypertension which caused some of the blood vessels in her right eye to burst, an ophthalmologist said in a statement issued by Santiago’s office on Wednesday.
THE 66-year old American man charged with rape was transferred to the Talisay City jail in barangay Maghaway about two days after being detained at the Talisay City police headquarters. His transfer was made possible through a commitment order issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Silvestre Maamo of Branch 7 at past 3 p.m last [...]
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The Department of Health on Monday warned the public, especially those with hypertension and heart problems, to avoid direct exposure to sunlight or constant contact with the heat of the sun to prevent heat stroke.
People who took blood pressure medicine during a 1980s clinical trial showed longer life expectancy two decades later than people who took a placebo, a US study said on Tuesday.
Benjamin Abalos Sr., the former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair, was taken ill and rushed to a hospital upon learning that he would be charged in the same electoral sabotage case brought against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The government’s health insurance program has released the specific amounts or case rate packages available to members for certain surgical procedures and ailments such as dengue, hypertension and pneumonia. Now members of PhilHealth will be able to immediately know how much they would get to pay for a particular disease or illness, Dr. Rey Aquino, [...]
Doctors are addressing the unusual rise of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s blood pressure and minimizing her infection risk through antibiotics, as her main attending physician hints that “external factors” are taking a toll on the now Pampanga representative.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was rushed at 5 p.m. on Monday to St. Luke’s Medical Center at the Global City in Taguig City due to hypertension. But her brother-in-law, Negros Occidental Rep Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo, however told the Inquirer that “it was nothing serious” and she was brought there more as a precaution. Iggy said [...]
Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was rushed to the St. Luke’s Hospital at Global City in Taguig City due to hypertension.