CLINICAL MATTERS The terrible bullying that Olympic boxer Imane Khelif endured due to misconceptions about her sex during the Olympics is a clear indication that our understanding of human sexuality is imperfect and continues to evolve. To begin with, many people continue to use gender and sex...
Government regulators and policy-makers have committed to institute fresh initiatives that will cut the out-of-pocket health spending of Filipinos using the two research papers released recently by the Unilab Center for Health Policy (UCHP), a program of Unilab Foundation, as guides. The UCHP...
CLINICAL MATTERS A clandestine US operation during the Covid-19 pandemic to discredit Chinese vaccines in the Philippines was confirmed by official communication between the two governments last June 25, 2024. This was according to a followup report by Reuters on the initial controversy, after it...
CLINICAL MATTERS A recent Reuters investigation e x p o s e d a clandestine US government program run by the Pentagon to discredit Chinese vaccines during the height of the pandemic. Reuters reported that the reason behind the program was to neutralize China’s positive PR generated by the act of...
CLINICAL MATTERS Rainy season is back, and with it the plethora of infectious diseases that increase in incidence during this time. These include the dreaded leptospirosis, dengue, and typhoid fever, among many others . How do w e protect ourselves and our loved ones? Most Filipinos are already...
CLINICAL MATTERS A few months ago, a teenager tragically died from rabies after she did not tell her mother that she had been bitten by a stray dog. By the time she asked for help, she had developed symptoms of rabies and it was too late to save her. Shortly afterwards, she died. The Philippines is...
CLINICAL MATTERS Picking up from where we left off after our first day in Mexico City, we journeyed south to Xochimilco where the remnants of the mountain lake, on which Mexico City was built, can still be seen. Canals crisscrossed the small man-made islands, known as chinampas, where locals build...
You underwent a calorie restricted diet, you worked out heavily, you took a lot of supplements and yet, the numbers on the weighing scale haven’t significantly dropped. Where did you go wrong? We’ve all heard this: Calorie in and calorie out. The idea of burning the equal amount of calories you...
Covid-19 has been trending in the news, with several countries announcing an increase in cases and US President Joe Biden testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. Several of my own patients have also tested positive for the virus. The latest variant, KP.3, seems to be taking over and is driving a...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) and Ayala Corp.’s Healthway Cancer Care Hospital (HCCH) on July 25 signed a memorandum of agreement to make blood supply affordable and accessible to cancer patients. Under the agreement, PRC will deliver blood to HCCH weekly or as necessary during...
From the data provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) , the most common cancer among women is breast cancer. It is a disease where abnormal breast cells grow uncontrollably and form tumors in the breast. Globally, there are 2.3 million women diagnosed with breast cancer, while in the...
By Dr. Rumalie A. Corvera Family Medicine and Palliative Medicine Specialist Support and Integrative Services Asian Cancer Institute, Asian Hospital and Medical Center Witnessing a loved one suffer from a life-threatening illness is both heart-wrenching and devastating. The emotional toll can be...
