Health and Lifestyle
DOH-11 urges parents with young daughters to get cervical cancer vax
May 9, 2024, 7:55 pm
DAVAO CITY – The Department of Health in Davao Region (DOH-11) is urging more parents of nine to 14-year-old girls to avail of the free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines for their daughters' protection from cervical cancer. On Thursday, Dr. Annabelle Yumang, DOH-11 director, invited the… Read More
PhilHealth benefits for heat-related illnesses increase by 30%
May 9, 2024, 3:30 pm
MANILA – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has increased its benefit package for heat-related illnesses by 30 percent as some fall ill due to continued extreme heat nationwide. The package is inclusive of hospital charges and professional fees of the attending physicians.… Read More
Heart diseases leading cause of death in PH in 2023
May 2, 2024, 8:00 pm
MANILA – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the top three causes of death in the country last year were ischaemic heart diseases, neoplasms, and cerebrovascular diseases. In a report released on Thursday, the PSA said these were also the leading causes of death in 2022. Ischaemic… Read More
Bacolod partners with 7 hospitals to provide in-patient services
May 2, 2024, 4:04 pm
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Comprehensive Health Program (BacCHP), which marks its first year this month, has partnered with all seven hospitals in the city to provide in-patient hospital services, especially to indigent patients. These medical facilities are the Department of… Read More
Negros town puts spotlight on blue crab dishes, coffee treats
April 29, 2024, 4:40 pm
BACOLOD CITY – The municipality of E. B. Magalona in Negros Occidental has put the spotlight on its famous products – blue crabs and coffee – in celebrating 35 years of its main fiesta, the Ugyonan Festival, which is being held until May 1. The northern Negros town is known as the… Read More
WHO: Current public health risk posed by bird flu low
April 28, 2024, 12:27 pm
GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the overall public health risk posed by the recent influenza, H5N1, is "low." For those with exposure to infected birds, animals, or contaminated environments, however, the risk of infection is "considered low-to-moderate," it said in… Read More
Bicol records 35 pertussis cases; DOH advises early treatment
April 26, 2024, 7:55 pm
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Health-Center for Health Development Bicol (DOH-CHD-5) reported 35 clinical and laboratory cases of the highly contagious respiratory infection pertussis on Friday. Eleven cases were confirmed through laboratory tests by the Research Institute for Tropical… Read More
W. Visayas medical center offers comprehensive cardio-pulmonary care
April 26, 2024, 6:44 pm
ILOILO CITY – Patients seeking treatment for cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases are assured of quality services at par with the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) with the opening of the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) Heart and Lung building on Friday. “As we inaugurate the… Read More
Coping with heat and preventing heat-related illnesses
April 24, 2024, 4:15 pm
MANILA – Jon Garry Venancio quickly piles up bamboo poles beside a small nipa hut he is building for a customer. It is 5 p.m. and his work for the day is already done. Venancio is a mountain farmer who moonlights as a carpenter, especially in the past two months when vegetables have been… Read More
17 villages in Bacolod City undergo nutrition survey
April 23, 2024, 8:27 pm
BACOLOD CITY – Some 17 villages in this city are undergoing the National Nutrition Survey 2024 until May 1 initiated by the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI). The survey mainly aims to provide empirical data on the nutritional and health… Read More
DOH-Bicol urges parents, seniors to get vaccinated
April 23, 2024, 8:06 pm
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) in Bicol is urging parents and seniors to let their family members get vaccinated against preventable diseases. In his message during the celebration of World Immunization Day at La Piazza Hotel in this city on… Read More
Iloilo marks World Immunization Week with vax, cervical cancer check
April 23, 2024, 7:13 pm
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development (DH WV CHD) kicked off the observance of the World Immunization Week (WIW) by bringing services for children, women, and elderly to residents of the municipality of Sta. Barbara, Iloilo on Tuesday. “World… Read More
Medical hub in Laguna city to give free dialysis to kidney patients
April 22, 2024, 9:13 pm
CALAMBA CITY, Laguna – Kidney patients in this city will soon have access to free dialysis, diagnostic, and laboratory services when a new medical facility becomes operational in about six months. Mayor Ross Rizal announced on Monday that the new hospital may be opened to patients as early as… Read More
PCMC's new MRI, CT scanners boost health services for Filipino kids
April 19, 2024, 8:38 pm
MANILA – The new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scanners at the Philippine Children's Medical Center (PCMC) in Quezon City are a huge boost in advancing and improving healthcare services and infrastructure for Filipino children, two senators said Friday. The MRI… Read More
Parents urged to have kids vaxxed amid pertussis outbreak
April 17, 2024, 5:26 pm
MANILA – House Deputy Majority Leader Janette Garin on Wednesday urged parents to have their children properly inoculated as the cases of pertussis in the country continue to increase. Garin, a former Health Secretary, made the call after the Department of Health logged 1,477 cases of pertussis… Read More
Albay distributes swab kits to monitor pertussis cases
April 17, 2024, 4:45 pm
LEGAZPI CITY – The Albay Provincial Health Office (APHO) has begun distributing nasopharyngeal swab kits to different rural health units (RHUs) and private and public hospitals in the province as part of its intervention against pertussis. In an interview on Wednesday, Jan Edmund Dominic Bailon,… Read More
DOH distributes 14 ambulances to 5 Bicol provinces
April 17, 2024, 3:14 pm
LEGAZPI CITY – Some 14 rural and city health units in five provinces in the Bicol region received new land ambulance units from the Department of Health-Center for Health Development in Bicol (DOH-CHD-5) early this week. In a media release on Wednesday, DOH-5 said the ambulances would help… Read More
New TB mobile clinic to boost detection, case finding in Bicol
April 16, 2024, 8:02 pm
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Health-Center for Health Development in Bicol (DOH-CHD-5) can now conduct more detection and case-finding activities for tuberculosis (TB) in the region after a non-government organization donated a mobile van clinic to the agency. In an interview on Tuesday, Dr.… Read More
DOH provides 6K vax for outbreak response immunization in Iloilo City
April 16, 2024, 7:27 pm
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) provided an initial 6,000 vials of the pentavalent vaccines to augment the ongoing pertussis outbreak response immunization of the city government here. “The vaccines we received came from Region 12, and they (DOH) are still looking for more,”… Read More
Bacolod City allots P15M for pentavalent vaccines
April 15, 2024, 8:25 pm
BACOLOD CITY – The city government here is set to purchase 10,000 doses of pentavalent vaccines with an allocation of PHP15 million to curb cases of pertussis (whooping cough) and other diseases among children below five years old. Dr. Ma. Carmela Gensoli, city health officer, said the City… Read More
