Three men were arrested late Tuesday afternoon after they got P10,000 worth of free medicine from the pharmacy of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City allegedly using fake documents.
British scientist Robert Edwards, who was awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work in developing in vitro fertilization (IVF), died on Wednesday aged 87, his university announced.
What he built up over eight years, it took only a moment of indiscretion to destroy.
When poetry and medicine entwine, even the sick and dying discover the beauty of the “finite life,” an award-winning poet’s research showed.
US health regulators said Monday they had licensed a new treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis — the first such federal approval aimed at tackling the deadly disease in 40 years.
While more and more countries are moving to legalize medicinal or recreational marijuana, or at least decriminalize its personal use, the Dangerous Drugs Board said it will oppose any proposal in the Philippines to follow suit.
Australian doctors Thursday hailed what they described as a world-first surgical treatment for a boy suffering from a rare disease that sends his blood pressure soaring and triggered a stroke.
Most patients getting chemotherapy for incurable lung or colon cancers mistakenly believe that the treatment can cure them rather than just buy them some more time or ease their symptoms, a major study suggests. Researchers say doctors either are not being honest enough with patients or people are in denial that they have a terminal disease.
Japanese ministers are pooling together money to help purchase a washing machine for Shinya Yamanaka, who was recently awarded the $1.2 million Nobel prize along with a British researcher.
The Department of Emergency Medicine of the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital will be having its 12th Annual Postgraduate Course with the theme “E.M. Out of the City” on October 18-19 at Pan Pacific Hotel Manila.
Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has nourished dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease.
Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has nourished dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease.
Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John B. Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their groundbreaking work on stem cells, the jury said.
