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Cayetano questions plan to 'chop-chop' RITM functions

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 12 08:10 PM

Sen. Pia Cayetano said even Sen. Nancy Binay could not understand the logic of dissolving the RITM and dividing its functions. Read more »

DOH: No truth RITM will be abolished

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 25 05:17 PM

The RITM will not be abolished should a proposed bill creating the country's Center for Disease Control will be signed into law. Read more »

Paglipana ng mga pekeng gamot ikinabahala

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 18 04:35 PM

Mula kasi nang pumasok ang COVID-19 pandemic, dumami ang counterfeit o pekeng mga gamot sa merkado. Read more »

Sri Lanka economic crisis deepens

Chamila Karunarathne, EPA-EFE
Posted at Nov 03 08:39 PM

Protests have been ongoing for over seven months as Sri Lanka faces its worst-ever economic crisis in decades. Read more »

Digital health app makes doctors available 24/7

Leah C. Salterio
Posted at Oct 22 10:07 PM

The days when doctors were hard to pin down for consultation or scheduling a regular check-up are now over. Read more »

Swedish paleogeneticist wins Nobel Medicine Prize

Pia Ohlin, Marc Preel, Alma Cohen, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 03 06:52 PM

Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. 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 »

DOH: Public's knowledge on generic drugs has increased

Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 28 08:59 PM

The public's knowledge about generic medicines has increased throughout the years, the DOH said. Read more »

DOH urging lawmakers to push for priority bills on health

Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 28 05:26 PM

The Department of Health said Wednesday it was pushing for priority bills that would aid the country in better addressing public health emergencies. Read more »

Red-tagging of rights defenders, health workers should stop: groups

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 30 07:22 PM

Some 60 lawyers, doctors and health workers demanded an end to red-tagging and attacks among their ranks in a protest action Tuesday at the DOJ office. Read more »

12 UP med students get scholarships from PH Red Cross

Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 12:12 AM

Each student is set to receive P300,000 a year in benefits lasting 3 to 5 years—the full duration of UP’s medical course. Read more »

Govt urged to address plight of health workers, build more clinics

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 26 02:26 PM

The government should focus on building more health centers and enforcing long-term hiring of health workers, a faculty member of the UP College of Medicine said. Read more »

Payo sa kalalakihan: Pangalagaan ang puso, reproductive, at mental health

Jasmin Romero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 06:12 PM

Nagpaalala ang ilang doktor sa mga kalalakihan na pangalagaan ang kanilang kalusugan para maiwasan ang Ilang mga sakit. Read more »

Cuba sentences 74 more anti-government protesters

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 23 11:45 AM

Cuban courts issued prison terms for another 74 people involved in last summer's unprecedented anti-government protests, officials said. Read more »

RITM says can now detect monkeypox

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 22 10:22 AM

The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine can now detect monkeypox cases. Read more »

Thailand legalizes marijuana use for medicine

Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 19 03:58 PM

Thailand further legalized the cultivation and use of marijuana for non-recreational purposes to encourage the production of medicines and foods made with cannabis extracts. Read more »

Bangladesh 'working on' making COVID-19 medicine, generic drugs in PH

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 17 01:56 PM

Bangladesh is "working on" boosting the local manufacturing of COVID-19 medicine and generic drugs in the Philippines, its ambassador said on Friday, after his meeting with President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Read more »

Pfizer offers to sell medicines at cost to poorest countries

Ali Bekhtaoui with Issam Ahmed in Washington, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 26 06:48 AM

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it would sell its patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis to the world's poorest countries, as part of a new initiative announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Read more »

4 must-have items in every Mom Scout Kit

Unilab
Updated as of May 25 12:07 PM

Moms need to be ready for their child's needs anytime, anywhere. Read more »

Shares of Lianhua maker tank as COVID drug questioned

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 18 06:50 PM

Chinese health platform Dingxiang Yisheng said the capsules, made by Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical, could not prevent COVID-19. Read more »