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Programa para malabanan ang depresyon isinusulong sa mga paaralan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 08:16 PM

Isinusulong ng isang NGO ang pagkakaroon ng school subject na magpapatibay ng loob ng mga estudyante. Read more »

Medicinal cannabis not proven in mental health, study finds

Kate Kelland, Reuters
Posted at Oct 29 07:01 AM

Evidence is weak for whether medicinal cannabis treatments can relieve mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression and psychosis, and doctors should prescribe them with great caution, researchers said on Monday. Read more »

'Alarming upsurge' in measles, including in PH, has devastating impact: WHO

Kate Kelland, Reuters
Posted at Oct 11 10:22 PM

Latest WHO global data shows that reported cases of measles rose by 300 percent globally in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2018 Read more »

Vaping-linked lung injury kills 18, sickens 1,080 in US

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 04 06:42 AM

WASHINGTON, United States—The number of patients suffering from probable lung injury associated with e-cigarette use has surged to more than a thousand, US health authorities said Thursday, while the death toll from the outbreak now stands at 18. Read more »

Amazon fires drive spike in child breathing problems in Brazil - study

Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 05:38 AM

Roughly 5,000 children aged 9 or younger were treated each month in May and June in 36 areas within Brazil's so-called "arc of deforestation," the area partially encircling the Amazon where destruction of the forest is the highest, according to a study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a public health research institute. Read more »

4 na bata sa Cagayan Valley na may sintomas ng polio, inoobserbahan

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 05 04:33 AM

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan—Inoobserbahan ng mga awtoridad sa Cagayan Valley ang 4 na bata dahil sa hinihinalang kaso ng polio. Read more »

Occupational pesticide exposure may raise heart risk

Carolyn Crist, Reuters
Posted at Oct 01 06:28 AM

Farm and agricultural workers need to wear personal protective equipment and, even after they retire should continue to have their health monitored for cardiovascular complications, the authors conclude in the Journal of the American Heart Association.   Read more »

Diabetics who delay treating hypertension have more strokes, heart attacks

Lisa Rapaport, Reuters
Posted at Sep 28 07:12 AM

People who waited until blood pressure was more elevated to start treatment were more likely to have events like fatal heart attacks and strokes, the study found. Read more »

Workplaces could be good setting for diabetes prevention

Vishwadha Chander, Reuters
Posted at Sep 28 07:09 AM

Professional drivers, manufacturing workers and cleaners were at the highest risk, and the irregular hours and shifts, stress and sleeping time associated with these occupations could be the cause. Read more »

US vaping-related deaths rise to 12, illnesses climb to 805

Reuters
Posted at Sep 27 06:35 AM

Investigators have, however, pointed to vaping oils containing marijuana ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or vitamin E acetate, a substance used in some THC products, as a possible cause of these illnesses. Read more »

Childhood smoking exposure tied to irregular heartbeat in adulthood

Lisa Rapaport, Reuters
Posted at Sep 27 06:07 AM

A small part of the risk for adult atrial fibrillation was associated with the tendency of smokers’ children to become smokers themselves as adults, the study team notes in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Read more »

Commentary: Beating polio the second time around needs political commitment

John Andrew Camposano, MD and Gideon Lasco, MD, PhD
Posted at Sep 26 11:48 AM

Although the new cases definitively indicate polio, the magnitude of the outbreak will only be clear with high rates of reporting from public and private health facilities, as well as greater inter-agency coordination. Read more »

Matapos ang polio, dengue: paglobo ng kaso ng diphtheria tinututukan

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 25 07:27 PM

Nakaalerto ngayon ang Department of Health sa pagkalat ng diphtheria sa ilang parte ng bansa. Read more »

More Americans say vaping is as dangerous as smoking cigarettes: poll

Chris Kahn, Reuters
Posted at Sep 25 06:18 AM

NEW YORK, United States—A growing number of Americans say that vaping e-cigarettes is at least as harmful as smoking traditional cigarettes, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, following reports of an outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths. Read more »

US health officials expect 'hundreds more' cases of vaping-related illness

Susan Cornwell and Deena Beasley, Reuters
Posted at Sep 25 06:10 AM

WASHINGTON, United States—Hundreds more Americans have been sickened by a severe vaping-related illness, with the official tally set to be updated on Thursday, according to a US health official speaking at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.   Read more »

South Korea confirms new case of African swine fever

Reuters
Posted at Sep 24 05:52 AM

SEOUL, South Korea—South Korea has confirmed a third case of African swine fever at a hog farm in a city near Seoul after the country’s first outbreak of the deadly virus last week, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. Read more »

ALAMIN: Mga dapat malaman tungkol sa polio

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 20 05:41 PM

Matapos ang halos dalawang dekadang pagiging polio-free, naitala na muli sa Pilipinas ang isang kaso ng polio. Read more »

First vaping hospitalization reported in Canada

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 19 07:31 AM

Canada reported its first hospitalization for severe respiratory illness linked to vaping on Wednesday, following an outbreak in the US that has killed seven people and sickened hundreds.   Read more »

The mysterious vaping illness that’s ‘becoming an epidemic’

Sheila Kaplan and Matt Richtel, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 04 11:54 AM

Patients, mostly otherwise healthy and in their late teens and 20s, are showing up with severe shortness of breath, often after suffering for several days with vomiting, fever and fatigue.  Read more »

Bata namatay dahil sa meningococcemia sa Davao City

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 03 11:57 PM

Pero ayon sa DOH, walang dapat ikabahala ang publiko dahil hindi basta-basta nakakahawa ang sakit. Read more »