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WHO considering global health emergency over DRC Ebola outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 03:24 AM

The World Health Organization said Monday its experts will meet this week to determine whether an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a global health emergency. Read more »

'Sari-saring sakit, nakukuha sa matinding polusyon, trapik'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 12 10:23 PM

Maaaring sanhi ng samot-saring malubhang sakit ang pananatili sa sobrang trapik at polusyon, ayon sa pag-aaral ng World Health Organization. Read more »

ALAMIN: Mga sakit na puwedeng makuha dahil sa stress sa trapik

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 12 12:51 AM

Nagbabala ang World Health Organization sa mga sakit na puwedeng makuha dahil sa sobrang stress sa biyahe. Read more »

Bilang ng mga nasasagasaan sa Metro Manila, tumataas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 11 12:58 AM

Marami sa mga biktima ay nasa tama namang tawiran. Read more »

New WHO regional chief must battle lifestyle conditions, tropical diseases

Reuters
Posted at Oct 10 01:26 AM

MANILA - Western Pacific health ministers picked a Japanese doctor as the next regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, spearheading a campaign to rein in lifestyle diseases linked to obesity and eradicate some tropical diseases by 2020. Read more »

WHO opens annual regional meeting in Manila

Kyodo News
Posted at Oct 08 10:24 PM

Health ministers from across Asia and the Pacific attended Monday the first day of the annual regional meeting by the World Health Organization, where priorities will be set and a new regional director of the UN body will be elected. Read more »

10 die of MERS in Saudi Arabia among 32 cases in last 3 months, says WHO

Kate Kelland, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 11:44 PM

The latest cases, recorded between June 1 and September 16, bring the global total of laboratory-confirmed MERS cases to 2,254, with 800 deaths, the UN agency said. Read more »

Rising European life expectancy undermined by obesity: WHO

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 12 08:24 AM

LONDON - Life expectancy in Europe continues to increase but obesity and the growing proportion of people who are overweight risks reversing this trend, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday. Read more »

TB, isa pa rin sa mga nangungunang nakamamatay na sakit sa Pinas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 16 02:12 AM

Isa pa rin ang tuberculosis sa mga nangungunang nakamamatay na sakit sa Pilipinas. Read more »

New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 27 09:08 AM

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - A new Ebola virus has been found in bats in Sierra Leone, two years after the end of an outbreak that killed over 11,000 across West Africa, the government said on Thursday. Read more »

Sugar content sa label ng mga produkto, inirerekomenda

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 04 07:38 PM

Irerekomenda ng Department of Trade and Industry ang paglalagay sa label kung gaano karaming asukal mayroon ang isang produkto. Read more »

Malawakang screening para sa hepatitis B, inilunsad

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 26 10:50 PM

Inilunsad ang malawakang screening sa bansa para magkaroon ng datos kaugnay sa mga batang may sakit na hepatitis B. Read more »

'Pagiging adik sa laro, bunga ng kakulangan sa human connection'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 21 11:52 PM

Isa sa mga dahilan kung bakit nagkakaroon ng adiksiyon ang isang tao ay dahil sa kakulangan sa "human connection" o pakikipag-ugnayan sa ibang tao, ayon sa isang eksperto. Read more »

ALAMIN: Tuwing kailan nagiging krimen ang paninigarilyo

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 01 06:31 PM

Sa kabila ng mga paalala sa masamang epekto sa kalusugan ng paninigarilyo ay milyon-milyong Pilipino pa rin ang patuloy na nalululong sa naturang bisyo. Read more »

Heartbreaker? Smoking causing millions of heart attacks, strokes: WHO

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of May 31 08:16 AM

While the link between smoking and a range of cancers is well known, the World Health Organization warned Thursday there was too little awareness of tobacco's impact on the human heart. Read more »

PH doc on WHO nomination: This breaks glass ceiling for developing nations

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 29 08:21 PM

MANILA - Former Health Undersecretary Susan Mercado said her nomination as regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific is a great honor both for her and the Philippines. Read more »

Pilipinas, pangatlo sa may pinakamataas na kaso ng TB: WHO

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 03:22 AM

Isa ang Pilipinas sa mga bansang may mataas na kaso ng tuberculosis, ayon sa World Health Organization. Read more »

Susan Mercado nominated as WHO regional director

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 23 10:09 PM

Former health undersecretary Susan Mercado has been nominated as regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. Read more »

'1 sa 3 Pinoy, posibleng mamatay sa di nakahahawang sakit bago mag-70'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 11:27 PM

Isa sa tatlong Pinoy ang posibleng mamatay dahil sa non-communicable disease o iyong mga hindi nakahahawang sakit bago umabot sa edad 70, ayon sa isang pag-aaral. Read more »

Mga eksperto, gustong imulat ang publiko sa panganib ng depresyon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 09 07:54 PM

Ayon sa mental health professionals, mahalaga na maging mulat ang publiko sa lumalaganap na problema ng mental health sa mga Pinoy na maaaring mauwi sa depresyon at suicide o pagpapakamatay. Read more »

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