The proposed Philippine Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) may soon become a reality this 19th Congress. (Fusion medical animation/ Unsplash) This, after the House of Representatives unanimously approved on third and final reading House Bill (HB) No.6522 during Monday night's plenary...
Filipino health professionals are in favor of the proposed establishment of Philippine Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, said Dr. Benito Atienza, Vice President 3 of Philippine Federation of Professionals Association. “Noong ako ay Presidente ng Philippine Medical Association...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda has set the record straight regarding the alleged bleak future of the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) in the event the proposed Center for Disease Control (CDC) comes to fruition. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda According to the rumor, the...
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go has renewed his call for the establishment of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a Medical Reserve Corps as part of the Marcos administration’s priority measures to ensure that the government can be one step ahead in protecting Filipinos from...
DOH The Philippines and the United States (US) are using different metrics in order to determine the Covid-19 classification of an area, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, Aug. 16. DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire made the statement after the US Center for Disease Control...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC) warned monkeypox cases are increasing across the African continent. Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of Africa CDC, while addressing journalists in his period briefing on Thursday, said since the beginning of 2022 eight...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has urged the Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) to apply the guidelines adopted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the country's administration of second booster shots. Concepcion made the appeal on Monday, so the country...
Isolation, quarantine, and what it means in the age of Omicron and Delta CLINICAL MATTERS Many people, including doctors, were puzzled by the recent changes made by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to the duration of quarantine and isolation. The CDC shortened both quarantine and isolation...
Clark Development Corporation (CDC) and local firm Scottubo Corporation have signed a deal to set up a P26.9-million specialty restaurant within the Clark Freeport Zone. In a statement, CDC said the proposed concept of the restaurant project will have a brewery, distillery, and a pub and is...
The wastewater treatment plant of Clark Water Corporation (CWC), a subsidiary of Manila Water Company, Inc., is facing closure after the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) threatened to not renew the company's Temporary Discharge Permit (TDP). In a statement, Clark Development...
Cebu-based steel manufacturing firm Chioson Development Corporation (CDC) has shifted power use into renewable energy (RE), and it signed up with Energy Development Corporation (EDC), to become its electricity service provider. According to EDC, which is a subsidiary of Lopez-led energy firm First...
Clark Development Corporation (CDC), a member of Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Group, has trained cacao farmers from communities near the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone as part of the agency's continuous corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. In a statement,...
