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Remembering PH cardiology figurehead Dr. Raul Jara: a jolly, comforting presence who loved music

Updated as of Mar 27 09:43 PM

The former president of the Philippine HEART Association passed away early this week due to respiratory complications caused by the coronavirus. Here, his patients and family remember a cheerful spirit who always had a song to spare. By JAM PASCUAL Read more »

9 Filipino doctors dead due to coronavirus, says organization

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 26 04:41 PM

Nine doctors have died in the Philippines from the coronavirus, the country's top medical association said Thursday, as hospitals were overwhelmed and medics complained about a lack of protection on the frontlines. Read more »

Pampanga health chief, ex-doctor to the barrios, succumbs to COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 25 10:22 AM

MANILA - The provincial health chief of Pampanga, who also served as a doctor to far-flung barrios north of the Philippine capital, has succumbed to the novel coronavirus, his daughter said Tuesday.    Read more »

Pangasinan doctor, balikbayan die of COVID-19: officials

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 25 09:38 AM

The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has killed a Filipino doctor and migrant worker in Pangasinan, its governor said Wednesday as he sought testing kits for his constituents.  Read more »

Good vibes: Doktor hataw sa pagsayaw gamit ang TikTok

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 24 01:21 PM

Habang naghihintay na makapag-Triage sa labas ng ospital, nirekord ng doktor na si KR Mangadlao ang sarili gamit ang app na TikTok -- isang video na ikinatuwa ng netizens. Read more »

'Cardiology pillar' succumbs to COVID-19: peers

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 24 01:03 PM

A local "pillar" of cardiology has succumbed to the novel coronavirus, his peers said Tuesday, as cases of the pandemic continued to increase in the Philippines.  Read more »

'Hero doctor': Young cardiologist loses fight vs COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 22 06:11 PM

(UPDATE) The Philippine Heart Association (PHA) on Saturday announced that one of its members died due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) "while fulfilling his duties as a doctor." Read more »

Tulong bumuhos para sa mga 'frontine warriors' laban sa COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 17 02:41 AM

Bumuhos ang tulong sa mga 'frontline warriors' tulad ng mga nurse at doktor na kumakalinga sa mga kababayan natin kontra coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Paraan ito ng mga kapwa-Pilipino para pasalamatan sila sa kanilang sakripisyo at malasakit. Read more »

Worried Chinese turn to online doctor consultations amid coronavirus outbreak

Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh, Reuters
Posted at Feb 26 04:14 PM

BEIJING/SHANGHAI - Spooked by a sneeze or a cough, Chinese consumers are turning to online consultations in droves for advice about possible coronavirus symptoms - a boon for a fledgling industry that has struggled to win over customers. Read more »

Hospital director dies in China's Wuhan, epicenter of coronavirus outbreak

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 18 01:14 PM

The head of a leading hospital in China's central city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday. Read more »

From dead, to alive, to dead again: How China handled coronavirus doctor's death

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 07 10:20 PM

"There is so much distrust". Read more »

Death of Chinese doctor fuels anger, demands for change on China's handling of virus crisis

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 07 05:32 PM

Many also used the occasion to demand more liberties in the Communist Party-ruled country, with the hashtags "I want freedom of speech" and "we demand freedom of speech" appearing on Twitter-like Weibo before being censored. Read more »

Doctor abducted by armed men in Sulu

RJ Rosalado, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 11:10 PM

A doctor was abducted by armed men inside his clinic Tuesday in Barangay Walled City, Jolo, Sulu, a top military official said. Read more »

Famed China SARS fighter returns to spotlight in coronavirus battle

Gabriel Crossley and Yawen Chen, Reuters
Posted at Jan 23 07:39 PM

Zhong Nanshan, despite his advanced age, was appointed to lead the National Health Commission's investigation into the new virus, which has rattled millions of Chinese who are traveling for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, which starts on Saturday, and jolted global markets. Read more »

3 Boracay-bound Chinese tourists with flu-like symptoms checked at hospital

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 21 01:35 AM

Dr. Cornelio Cuachon Jr., Provincial Health Officer 1 of Aklan Provincial Hospital, said they took specimens and blood samples from the 3 tourists. Read more »

Yeng Constantino posts bail after arrest order over doc's cyberlibel case

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 10 09:05 PM

A Surigao del Norte court on Friday released a warrant of arrest against Kapamilya singer Yeng Constantino after a doctor she slammed on social media last year filed a cyberlibel complaint. Read more »

Japanese doctor made the Afghan deserts green, until deadly attack

Elaine Lies, Reuters
Posted at Dec 05 04:59 PM

TOKYO - Tetsu Nakamura, the Japanese doctor and aid worker killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, was inspired to make the country's deserts green by the deaths of children in a clinic he ran in a drought-stricken rural area.   Read more »

Japanese doctor, 5 Afghans killed in Kabul attack

Noorullah Shirzada, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 04 05:05 PM

In 2003, Nakamura, a native of the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, won the Philippines' Ramon Magsaysay Award for peace and international understanding -- often called Asia's Nobel Prize. Read more »

French doctor still treating patients at 98

Reuters
Posted at Nov 23 04:22 AM

CHEVILLY-LARUE, France—When French doctor Christian Chenay saw his first patients in 1951, penicillin was state of the art. Read more »

'Midway' defeats 'Doctor Sleep' in surprise box office upset

Rebecca Rubin, Variety.com via Reuters
Posted at Nov 11 01:13 PM

In a surprise box office win, Roland Emmerich's World War II epic "Midway" took down the competition in North America to land in first place with $17.5 million. Read more »