Ayala Healthcare Holdings Inc.’s (AC Health) Healthway Cancer Care Hospital (HCCH), the country ’ s first cancer specialty hospital, is teaming-up with global pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to launch its Lung Center of Excellence (COE) and a dedicated Lung Nodule Clinic. AC Health said this...
Multinational biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is poised to invest more than ₱7 billion over the next three years as part of its commitment to advance scientific innovation in the Philippines’ healthcare system, including the establishment of the country’s first health innovation hub....
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) Vaccine makers Pfizer and AstraZeneca have agreed to “disclose” the Covid-19 vaccine purchase agreement with the Philippines under specific conditions, the...
In a bid to save lives, AstraZeneca Philippines has signed an agreement with Security Bank Corporation and SB Finance to provide cancer patients with easier funding options for diagnostics and long-term treatment. In a statement, Security Bank said the Cancer Care Ecosystem Funding Partnership is...
Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Sputnik Light, and Janssen vaccines have been approved for the administration of the second booster shot, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, April 19. People waiting for their booster shot in Muntinlupa. (File photo/Muntinlupa PIO) Health...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano encouraged city residents set to receive their booster shots to visit health centers near their residence and get the jab against COVID-19. Rubiano said 13 health centers in the city are ready to administer booster shots to those who are scheduled to receive...
The interval of the first and second dose for AstraZeneca vaccine was shortened amid concerns raised by those inoculated by the Europe-made vaccine over the implementation of the no vaccination, no ride policy, an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said. In a...
A health worker shows a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Transverse myelitis, a rare side effect of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine AstraZeneca has not yet been detected in the country, the head of the Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) said on Friday, Jan. 21. Dr. Nina...
The country received its latest supply of anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine with the arrival of 1,877,600 doses of AstraZeneca shot on Friday, Jan. 21. The vaccines were delivered through China Airlines flight CI701 around 9:30 a.m. at Terminal 1 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport...
New AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine data further support its use as third dose booster New data from ongoing trial showed increased antibody response against Beta, Delta, Alpha, and Gamma variants following third dose booster with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Additional analysis...
Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion has pitched a paradigm shift as far as the monitoring of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is concerned. Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion (Photo from Go...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Monday, Dec. 13, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster shots depend on the vaccine brand administered in the primary series. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) This in reply to the question during a Laging Handa press briefing on the possibility of shortening...
