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26 deaths in W. Visayas due to dengue

By Perla Lena/PNA ILOILO CITY -- Dengue fever already claimed 26 lives in Western Visayas based on the 11th morbidity week of monitoring by the Department of Health –Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD). The...

Ilocos Norte med students put up blood bank for every Juan

By Reynaldo Andres/PNA LAOAG CITY -- A voluntary blood donation drive is being promoted among medical students in Ilocos Norte to ensure adequate blood supply for accident victims, people needing surgery, and those...

DOH steps up routine vaccination drive in W. Visayas

by Perla Lena/PNA The Department of Health-Center for Health Development 6 (DOH-CHD 6) is intensifying its routine vaccination drive and calling on parents to have their babies avail of the program before they...

Surgeons Perform First HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant

By Carol Pearson/VOA News For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore performed...

Rising cases of measles noted among adults in SoCot

by Anna liza Cabrido/PNA Health personnel in South Cotabato have recorded increasing cases of suspected measles infection among adults. A report released by the Integrated Provincial Health Office’s (IPHO) epidemiology and surveillance unit (PESU)...

DILG urges LGUs to support DOH measles vaccination campaign

PR/PNA MANILA -- The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) encouraged the local government units (LGUs) to be its proactive partners in the conduct of nationwide immunization campaign to address the...

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