DOH pushes for VAT exempt cancer medications

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:40:08 +0000

MANILA, Philippines—After the removal of the value-added tax (VAT) on medicines for diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, the Department of Health (DOH) said it is now working for the tax exemption of cancer medications.

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Duterte gives gifts to young cancer patients in Davao City

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 05:52:22 +0000

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte does the fist bump with one of the pediatric cancer patients during his visit at the Southern Philippines Medical Center's Cancer Institute Children's Unit in Davao City on December 23, 2018. TOTO LOZANO/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

President Duterte visited pediatric cancer patients at the Southern Philippines Medical Center’s Cancer Institute Children’s Unit in Davao.

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Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, dies at 68

Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, dies at 68

NEW YORK — Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from “Great Society” Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to denouncer of United States President Donald Trump, died on Thursday. He was 68.

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