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Dagupan health office urges frequent cleanup drive

DAGUPAN CITY -- The City Health Office (CHO) is encouraging barangay officials and all communities to clean up their surroundings to remove the breeding ground of mosquitoes after the recent flooding. In an...

Tobacco industry uses social media to circumvent bans

GENEVA — Delegates from 137 countries are attending a week-long anti-tobacco conference to exchange ideas and propose policies for tackling the worldwide tobacco pandemic. Organizers say progress has been made since the...

Cancer researchers win 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Japan's Kyoto University for their discoveries in cancer therapy. "Allison and...

SoCot gov’t hospitals set up isolation rooms for rabies patients

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) of South Cotabato is working on the establishment of special isolation facilities for rabies patients in all government hospitals in the area. John...

WHO chief urges action on deadly non-communicable diseases

Seven in 10 people worldwide die from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung diseases, according to a study published in The Lancet earlier this month. These diseases not only rob people prematurely of their...

Lepto cases up 231% in Pangasinan; deaths hit 47

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan -- The number of cases of Leptospirosis in Pangasinan province surged to 372 or 231 percent on Jan. 1-Sept. 24 from 110 during the same period last year, the Provincial...

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