As access to health facilities and doctors become more inaccessible to Filipinos, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos hopes to address this deep-rooted problem through the mobilization of her “Lab For All Konsulta Caravan” program. (Photo from First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos' Facebook page) This...
The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on Friday, May 19 announced the resumption of its Covid-19 testing services. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) RITM, a facility tasked to undertake research activities in the diagnosis, control and prevention of infectious and...
House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto (Facebook) House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto says the country is showing that it has learned a lesson from the Covid-19 pandemic with its "supersizing" of medicine scholars' slots. On Thursday, April 13,...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. wants the country to step up local drug manufacturing and secure a stockpile of medicine in preparation for any emergency. Marcos said this as he met with the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) and officials from the Department of Health (DOH) and the...
The exam is by Philippine Board of Rehabilitation Medicine After emerging as first place in the written examination by Philippine Board of Rehabilitation Medicine, Centro Escolar University School of Pharmacy alumnus, Dr. Ruben Zarate again topped the exam. This time, the Oral Diplomate...
Through the collaboration of the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Foundation Inc. (UPMAFI) and the Henry Sy Foundation Inc. (HSFI), the country’s premier higher learning institution recently opened the doors of the UP College of Medicine (UPCM) Henry Sy Sr Hall. Herbert Sy (first from...
The Senate recognised on Monday, Dec. 5 the contribution of the University of Santo Tomas – Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (UST-FMS) to the medical and health care education in the country. In a unanimous vote, the Senate adopted Proposed Senate Resolution 336 (Adopted Resolution 31) citing...
Centro Escolar University School of Medicine produced its second batch of doctors with 18 passers in the October 2022 Physician Licensure Examination as announced by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). The new Escolarian licensed physicians are Dr. Theorell Joshua Abion, Dr. Earl Angelo...
DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire speaks to members of the media during the first face-to-face press briefing after two years at the DOH Central Office in Manila on Wednesday, July 20. (MB Photo: Noel Pabalate) The Department of Health (DOH) assured employees of the Research Institute...
This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature,...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymund W. Lo The practice of modern medicine is very much truth-based in terms of the science behind it. Medical literature gives us an abundance of information, which we use to treat patients. The science is robust and evidence-based. Besides being peer-reviewed and...
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