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New Pagasa mobile app to benefit farmers, fisherfolk

MANILA -- A new free mobile phone app open up and give farmers and fisherfolk nationwide access to latest weather and climate information from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration...

704 Aeta students get P1.9M scholarship grants

STA RITA, Pampanga -- Some 704 Aetas studying from the different schools in the province on Friday received financial grants that could help them finish their education. The provincial government of Pampanga,...

Lack of hospital facilities add to high maternal deaths in Palawan

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan -- The lack of hospital facilities and the absence of obstetricians in remote areas in Palawan to handle childbirth and maternal health care top the reasons for...

Pacific Ocean garbage patch growing rapidly, study finds

The world's largest collection of ocean garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Hawaii and California, is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined. The sprawling patch of detritus, known...

DOH intensifies drive to reduce tuberculosis cases

MANILA --The Department of Health (DOH) is calling on different sectors to collaborate in boosting efforts toward reducing and eventually wiping out the number of tuberculosis cases among Filipinos by 2022 via...

Duque orders hospitals to explain failure to admit Dengvaxia patient

DASMARIŇAS CITY, Cavite - Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Dr. Francisco Duque III will send “show cause orders” to the hospitals he visited here Wednesday to explain why they should not be...

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