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'Threat multiplier': How climate change affects health

Daniel Lawler, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 03:51 PM

Deadlier than COVID, or even rivaling cancer? Researchers are attempting to calculate the effect climate change will have on health. Read more »

DOST highlights new tech to boost medical accessibility

Jasmin Romero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 10:24 PM

The DOST also highlighted the LISA robot designed to help medical practitioners with their patients. Read more »

15th Philippine National Health Research System

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 11 02:16 PM

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. talks to DOH Officer-in-Charge Ma. Rosario Vergeire during the opening of the 15th Philippine National Health Research System week. Read more »

DOST says health researchers may avail of P1-M fund

Jasmin Romero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 28 07:04 PM

Health researchers in the country may avail of the Regional Research Fund that provides up to P1 million for every project. Read more »

Vaccine self-reliant PH? DOST says jabs may be manufactured in country by 2022

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 17 11:48 PM

In an interview on ANC, Science Secretary Fortunato dela Peña said this could be achieved through a "fill and finish approach" through the importation of vaccine materials from the vaccine developer.    Read more »

Turn back time? Study hints at way to halt decline as we age

Sara Hussein, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 11:24 AM

The march of time can be unkind to the human body but new research hints at a cause -- and possible solution -- for some of the ailments and decline that often come with age. Read more »

DOST reaches Phase 2 clinical trial on candidate drug vs dengue

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 10:08 PM

Science Sec. Fortunato Dela Peña said the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development’s Phase 2 clinical trial has at least 600 volunteers. Read more »

After experiment, virgin coconut oil found to help destroy COVID-19: Filipino scientists

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 19 01:02 PM

Virgin coconut oil can help destroy the novel coronavirus, according to Filipino researchers, following months of experiments on the product as a potential antiviral agent.   Read more »

Orca that carried dead calf for 17 days gives birth again

Mike Baker, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 08 05:51 PM

An orca that once spent 17 days carrying her dead calf — a dramatic saga of apparent mourning — has become a mother once again. Read more »

How koalas with an STD could help humanity

Rachel E. Gross, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 14 07:36 AM

Humans don’t have a monopoly on sexually transmitted infections. Oysters get herpes; rabbits get syphilis; dolphins get genital warts. But chlamydia — a pared-down, single-celled bacterium that acts like a virus — has been especially successful, infecting everything from frogs to fish to parakeets. You might say chlamydia connects us all.   Read more »

Research, not reward, Lacson says of Duterte's P10-million offer for COVID-19 vaccine

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 23 01:19 PM

MANILA - Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Thursday joined calls for President Rodrigo Duterte to "invest" P10 million in research and development instead of dangling the fund as a reward for those who could develop a vaccine for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).   Read more »

‘Pay it forward’: Doc who survived COVID-19 raring to go back to work, donate blood

Erik Tenedero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 14 03:26 PM

For the young doctor, there is work to be done. He is now looking forward to donate blood for an experimental treatment for patients with severe symptoms of the disease. Read more »

PH Genome Center handang tumulong sa paghahanap ng lunas vs bagong coronavirus

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 31 07:23 PM

Wala pang 10 taon ang Philippine Genome Center, isang modernong pasilidad sa ilalim ng University of the Philippines na nag-aaral ng genome o genetic material ng living organisms. Read more »