CLINICAL MATTERS A flurry of respiratory illnesses in the last few weeks triggered school closures anew. Thankfully, it wasn’t from a resurgence of Covid-19 cases. Neither was it from Nipah virus, which triggered some panic in Cagayan de Oro but was found to be fake news. While there were several...
CLINICAL MATTERS The Covid-19 pandemic introduced the word “RT-PCR” into the mainstream. RT-PCR, which stands for Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction was the only test available for diagnosing Covid-19 when the pandemic was just starting. World Health Organization director general...
GUEST COLUMNIST By MAYOR FRANCIS ZAMORA Allow me to give my answer by first inviting you to take a look at the big picture of the war on drugs. Illegal drugs remains to be one of the biggest social problems in the Philippines—one major catalyst of crimes which compromises the country’s...
CLINICAL MATTERS The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated the immense value of vaccination. While many people continue to believe that vaccination is something that is only for children, the life-saving properties of vaccines are of benefit to people of all ages. Special populations like the...
GUEST COLUMNIST By MAYOR FRANCIS ZAMORA Aug. 30 was a special non-working holiday in the City of San Juan, as ordered by the President. The wordings of Presidential Proclamation No. 328, "it is but fitting and proper that the people of the City of San Juan be given the full...
GUEST COLUMNIST By MAYOR FRANCIS ZAMORA Ever since I became mayor in 2019, I have always envisioned San Juan City to have smart classrooms as this was part of my 10-point agenda in local governance. Why? Because I strongly believe in empowering our students through progressive and up to date...
"Family Matters" leads the upcoming Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) awards with 12 nominations. The stars of the film, Mylene Dizon and Nikki Valdez, are both vying for the Best Supporting Actress plum while co-star Nonie Buencamino is nominated Best Supporting Actor. Film leads...
By KAWAL PREET Technology is moving at lightning speed. In my lifetime alone, the world as we know it has orbited into a completely different galaxy from the one we inhabited before. We’re already reflecting on the last two decades as one of the most dramatic periods of transformation in...
CLINICAL MATTERS Conspiracy theorists went into overdrive anew when several mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, published stories suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Anti-China rhetoric went into overdrive and...
Celebrating the University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health’s 25 years of meaningful health research in the service of the Filipino people CLINICAL MATTERS DR. EDSEL SALVANA The University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH) celebrated its silver anniversary...
The coming of the bivalent vaccines, and the need for yearly Covid-19 boosters CLINICAL MATTERS DR. EDSEL SALVANA As the horrendous Valentine’s Day traffic clearly showed, people are going out once again with a vengeance. Restaurants were full to bursting, and the malls were packed. Yes, the...
How the Philippines successfully navigated the Covid-19 pandemic CLINICAL MATTERS DR. EDSEL SALVANA A recent report from China’s National Health Commission stated that nearly 60,000 Covid-19 related deaths occurred in the country between Dec 8, 2022 and Jan. 12, 2023. Of these, more than 5,000...
