Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:49:19 +0000
The Iloilo provincial board on Tuesday placed the province under a state calamity due to continuing increase of dengue cases.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 06:55:27 +0000
The Department of Health (DOH) has advised the public against buying school supplies that could be tainted with toxic materials.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 22:18:49 +0000
More than a dozen states have moved to declare pornography a public health crisis, raising concerns among some experts who said the label goes too far and carries its own risks.
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Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:44:58 +0000
LONDON — A long-awaited inquiry opened Tuesday in Britain into how contaminated blood was used to treat thousands of people in the 1970s and ’80s, killing at least 2,400.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:11:55 +0000
More than 1,000 students and staff members at two Los Angeles universities were quarantined on campus or sent home this week in one of the most sweeping efforts yet by public health authorities to contain the spread of measles in the U.S., where cases have reached a 25-year high.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:39:57 +0000
Arturo Tecson Jr. brought with him something precious when he went back to work to Saudi Arabia on Saturday: His daughter’s medal.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:13:05 +0000
The decision to indict former and current officials of the Department of Health (DOH) in connection to the purchase of Dengvaxia vaccines must not be used to stoke fear against government’s vaccination program.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:08:33 +0000
In less than two months, 215 people have died due to measles as more than 13,000 have contracted the airborne disease, the DOH said Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:44:01 +0000
The patient earlier taken to the RITM, after showing signs of possible MERS-CoV, tested negative for the disease, the DOH-Calabarzon said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:28:11 +0000
A “gradual implementation” of the Universal Healthcare Act is likely if government fails to find ample resources to fund it.
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