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• Highest heat index for 2021 was 53℃ in Dagupan, Pangasinan, on May 14. • On Tuesday, June 1, 18 weather stations around the country registered high heat index values that are within the “danger level” for heat cramps or heat exhaustion. • The highest heat index of 51℃ was in Dagupan...

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is bringing back its 30-minute “heat stroke break” policy for the benefit of agency personnel who perform their duties under the scorching sun. An MMDA traffic enforcer moving barriers on the road. (Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN) "Our...

MB FILE PHOTO (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The public was reminded to take extra precaution to avoid heat stroke amid the rising temperature amid the dry and warm season The Department of Health (DOH), in an advisory, defined heat stroke as the "most severe form of heat illness when the body...

Senator Leila de Lima was brought to the Manila Doctor's Hospital on Saturday, April 24, to have her checked for possible stroke. The detained lawmaker has been granted a three-day emergency medical furlough by the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branches 205 and 256 after her on-call physician...

Richard Merck Singer Richard Merck was rushed to the hospital after he suffered a mild stroke in his sleep last Feb. 11. This was revealed by his sister Rachel Anne Wolfe on Facebook on Feb. 17. Wolfe asked for the speedy recovery of her brother. "Please say a prayer for my brother Richard Merk who...