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Indian doctors remove giant 7.4 kilo kidney from man

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 07:42 AM

Indian surgeons have cut a kidney weighing the same as a bowling ball out of a man with a life-threatening genetic condition, a surgeon said Monday.   Read more »

NKTI nanawagan ng blood donation para sa leptospirosis patients

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 21 05:24 PM

Nanawagan ang National Kidney and Transplant Institute ng blood donation para sa kanilang mga pasyente ng leptospirosis.   Read more »

Gym ng NKTI binuksan dahil sa pagdami ng leptospirosis patients

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 20 08:44 AM

Ilan sa mga sintomas ng leptospirosis ang lagnat, panginginig, pananakit ng kasukasuan, at pamumula ng mata. Read more »

Stevie Wonder tells London concert he will have a kidney transplant

Reuters
Updated as of Jul 08 06:45 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - Stevie Wonder told thousands of fans watching him perform in London on Saturday night he is due to have a kidney transplant in September. Read more »

Gary V: I am cancer free

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 05 05:27 PM

Masayang ibinahagi ni Gary Valenciano na wala na siyang sakit na cancer.  Read more »

Ilonggo painter sells artwork on street to raise funds for wife's dialysis

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 29 01:33 AM

ILOILO CITY—A street in Jaro, Iloilo City has turned into an outdoor gallery of sorts featuring the paintings of a local artist.   Read more »

ALAMIN: Mga karaniwang sanhi, sintomas ng sakit sa bato

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 17 05:31 PM

Pangunahing papel ng mga bato ang pagsala sa dugo at pag-alis ng mga dumi sa katawan ng tao, ayon sa eksperto. Read more »

PhilHealth board members nagsumite ng 'courtesy resignation'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 07:33 PM

Naghain na ng courtesy resignation ang mga board member ng PhilHealth nitong Martes, ayon sa DOH.  Read more »

Ilang opisyal ng PhilHealth pinagbibitiw sa puwesto

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 01:05 AM

Nagpasya rin kanina ang Malakanyang na isailalim sa Office of the President ang mga opisyal ng PhilHealth na nasa plantilla. Read more »

Dialysis support group dismayed over ‘ghost' kidney treatments scandal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 08 03:24 PM

MANILA – A dialysis support group on Saturday expressed dismay and concerns over one Quezon City clinic's alleged misuse of state health insurance funds on "ghost" dialysis treatments for patients who have already died. Read more »

Duterte orders arrest of dialysis center owners over 'ghost' kidney treatments

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 05:39 AM

MANILA (UPDATE) - President Rodrigo Duterte early Saturday said he has ordered the arrest of the owners of a private dialysis center for allegedly claiming payments of nonexistent kidney patients. Read more »

'Libreng dialysis para sa mahihirap pasok sa Universal Health Care'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 31 08:42 PM

Pasok pa rin sa Universal Health Care law ang libreng dialysis ng lahat ng kidney patients, ayon sa isa sa mga lumagda ng batas.   Read more »

OPINION: Marcos could have lived longer but…..

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 03 07:36 PM

Did Ferdie indulge in self-induced medical brinkmanship? Was his death, when it happened, the fatal backfire of that brinkmanship? Read more »

Like Uber, but for organs: first kidney delivered by drone

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 02 05:09 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - A kidney needed for transplantation has been delivered by a drone for the first time ever, the University of Maryland Medical Center said, a development that could herald faster and safer organ transport. Read more »

The Marcos medical maneuvers (1)

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 20 02:10 AM

In order to establish Ferdinand Marcos' physical condition upon the start of his exile, immediately after a harrowing fall from power just a few days earlier, here are a couple of eyewitness accounts. Read more »

OPINION: Political use of Marcos' medical condition

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 05 09:33 PM

Already in Hawai’ian exile, deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos' medical condition was an overt tool in the undisguised political game they were scheming.  Read more »

ALAMIN: Sino ang mga kalipikadong mag-donate ng kanilang bato?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 23 05:56 PM

Sino-sino ang mga maaaring mag-donate ng kanilang bato o kidney? Read more »

Parusa sa Manila Water, soli-bayad sa naperwisyo, inaaral

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 19 08:00 PM

Nais ni Senate President Tito Sotto na agad magpatupad ng rebate, na maituturing na parusa, ang Manila Water sa kanilang apektadong kustomer.  Read more »

6 Metro Manila hospitals still in need of water - Red Cross

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 16 10:16 PM

Six government hospitals in the eastern and northern parts of Metro Manila continue to suffer from low pressure of water service, according to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC). Read more »

Teens with high blood pressure at risk for kidney disease: study

Reuters
Posted at Mar 15 12:40 AM

Adolescents who have high blood pressure are twice as likely to develop serious kidney disease by middle age as teens who don’t, an Israeli study suggests.   Read more »