Kim Domingo broke up with her boyfriend cager Mike Acuña in 2019. She has been single since. It's a wonder for some, believing that someone as hot as Kim wouldn't have a hard time finding new love. So, what gives? Is she still hurting? Has she sworn off men? None of the above. According to Kim,...
Ensuring Delta remains under control CLINICAL MATTERS With few exceptions, the biggest one being China, most of the world has pretty much moved on from a COVID-19 elimination strategy. Zero COVID-19, which was the goal early in the pandemic, became a near-impossibility with the rise of the...
Here’s the scientific reason we need them CLINICAL MATTERS Few things are currently as controversial as face shields. With the Philippines being one of the few countries in the world that advocate its use, the face shield has become a hot button topic and reaped a lot of scorn from politicians...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma A global summit – the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – is ongoing in Glasgow, Scotland to address global concerns on the continuing threats posed by unabated global warming. The Philippines will likely...
CLINICAL MATTERS Delta plus is a word combination that sent many people into a panic when it was reported in media in October. To those familiar with the havoc that the Delta variant wreaked in India and globally, the only thing that could possibly be worse is the Delta plus. Delta plus, or...
Clinical Matters Nothing is more contentious these days than the discussion surrounding additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Israel, having reached a high level of vaccination for its citizens, started offering boosters to its elderly population early on, followed by younger and younger age...
Our economy might’ve taken a hit, but we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world CLINICAL MATTERS At the start of the pandemic last year, each country had to make hard choices in terms of its response to an unknown virus that was spreading fast. The rapid propagation of what was then...
Here are the new medicines at the forefront in the fight against COVID CLINICAL MATTERS Since the original SARS coronavirus was first discovered in February 2003, scientists have been hard at work looking for effective treatments against deadly coronaviruses. The first promising treatments included...
A quick review of COVID-19 CLINICAL MATTERS Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in many ways. It has also expanded our vocabulary, at least COVID-19-related terms. There remain a lot of misconceptions surrounding technical terms like strain, variant, quarantine,...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay For more than five years, ordinary citizens had to contend with the egregious display of officious behavior by some of our public officials. From the highest ranks of leadership down to the second and third tiers of the bureaucracy, the space...
(Not just the Western ones) CLINICAL MATTERS Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana Despite record numbers of cases across the world as a result of the Delta variant rampage, death rates from COVID-19 in countries with high vaccination rates have been dropping dramatically. Along with decreasing death rates...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay By the time this column sees print, Metro Manila would have been under Alert Level 4 for one week. An official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) described the situation over the weekend as “good,” but his...
