Korean singer and entertainer Kim Jong-kook, star of the popular TV show “Running Man,” has revealed the results of his doping test. The 45-year-old star underwent extensive tests to belie the claims by Canadian bodybuilder Greg Doucette that he was taking enhancers to maintain his muscled...
Philippine Red Cross Chairman (PRC) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Senator "Dick" Gordon announced on Tuesday, Dec. 14, that the PRC Logistics Multipurpose Center (PLMC) molecular laboratory received a five-star rating from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM). Photo from the...
Malacañang tried to appease the public Tuesday, Dec. 14 over the backlash on the new P1,000 banknote featuring a Philippine eagle design that will be issued alongside the existing bill thas has portraits of World War II heroes Vicente Lim, Josefa Llanes Escoda, and Jose Abad Santos. (Ali Vicoy/...
The Philippines is seeking to develop a “cost-effective lab-on-a-chip device” that will be used to detect chikungunya, dengue, Zika, and Japanese encephalitis, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said. (Photo by CDC on Unsplash) DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development Dr....
Get your blood tested, get a chance to win ₱250,000 To celebrate its 25th anniversary, diagnostic center Hi-Precision is rolling out its latest campaign called ‘“Blotto.” Patients who have their blood tested until Jan. 31, 2022 will have the chance in a lotto to win ₱250,000! Who would...
To combat coronavirus disease (COVID-19), especially now that the holiday season is fast approaching, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is pushing for regular reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing and COVID-19 vaccination. (PRC/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “We are at war...
The results of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) study on the use of saliva as an alternative specimen for the detection of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2), the virus which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), may be out next year, the...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz For Elmer Labog, chairperson of the labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno and one of the two Makabayan senatorial candidates, human rights should be a top issue in the 2022 presidential race. Labog knows human rights. He was one of the many young Filipinos of the late 1960s and 1970s...
Philippine Red Cross has tested more than five million Filipinos for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a milestone PRC Chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Sen. Richard Gordon has set after they put up PRC's first-ever molecular laboratory in April 2020. “We have been here since the...
In its continued battle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has tested nearly five million Filipinos, it said on Monday, Nov. 29. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) As of Monday, the PRC said that it has conducted 4,985,940 tests. "We have been here since the...
ST LUKE'S STATEMENT (Facebook) The St. Luke's Medical Center responded on Thursday, Nov. 25, to the queries it received regarding the drug tests being conducted in their institution. The hospital posted a statement on its official Facebook page after it received “public and media queries on...
The hands of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) are tied as the confidentiality law restricts the agency from making public the drug test results of the political bets in the local or national elections. In a telephone interview on Thursday, Nov. 25, PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold...
