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High salt intake linked to higher stroke risk
A cook sprinkles salt on fries at a cafe in the Frietmuseum in Bruges September 27, 2011. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (Reuters Health) – Older adults with salty diets may have an increased risk of suffering a...
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DOH implements stricter screening measures in blood donations
Department of Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell – Ubial PHILIPPINES — The Department of Health is now administering a more careful procedure in collecting blood from donors to avoid blood...
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Researchers find clues to why diet with olive oil is tied lower heart disease...
Bottles of olive oil are lined in a factory in Dos Hermanas, near the Andalusian capital of Seville September 21, 2012. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (Reuters Health) – A traditional Mediterranean diet with...
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Diseased rat urine kills New Yorker in outbreak of rare illness
A rat’s head rests as it is constricted in an opening in the bottom of a garbage can in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., October 18, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Diseased rat urine has killed at...
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Hard to detect, China bird flu virus may be more widespread
A quarantine researcher checks on a chicken at a poultry farm in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China, February 3, 2017. Picture taken February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer Bird flu infection rates on Chinese...
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Doctors who find meaning in their work are less likely to feel burnout
FILE PHOTO: Mohamed Abdulrahman Abdulrab, a Yemeni-born Hungarian doctor who was voted ‘Doctor of the Year’ by Hungarian patients, holds a new born baby at the hospital in Gyula, Hungary, March 23,...
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Going from low-to intermediate-fitness may prolong life
FILE PHOTO: A woman jogging with the Boston skyline on background. Dominick Reuter/Reuters (Reuters Health) – Improving cardiovascular fitness over time may prolong life, suggests a new study. Patients...
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Edsa traffic enforcers in danger of lung disease
PHILIPPINES — Air pollution has spread across the highly urbanized Metro Manila due to high number of vehicles. Several studies reveal that Edsa has the highest level of air pollution due to the...
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‘Alarming’ superbugs a risk to people, animals and food, EU warns
FILE PHOTO: An undated image taken with electronic microscope shows EHEC bacteria (enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli) in Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Brunswick, Germany. REUTERS/Manfred...
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Americans stressed over politics, poll shows
The crowd on the National Mall reacts during the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan (Reuters Health) – In January, just...
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Obese couples may take longer to conceive
The legs of women are pictured as they walk along a street in Paris, France, October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen (Reuters Health) – – Couples who are obese may take longer to achieve pregnancy...
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Obesity strongly linked to 11 types of cancer
FILE PHOTO: Women sit on a bench in New York’s Times Square May 31, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters Health) – People who are obese have a greater risk of developing and dying from several types...
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Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year: WHO
Children look for plastic bottles at the polluted Bagmati River in Kathmandu March 22, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or...
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Exercise better than drugs for cancer fatigue
A cancer patient pushes his drip stand as he walks down the hallway of the Beijing Cancer Hospital July 12, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients may ease fatigue more effectively...
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President Duterte to sign EO on nationwide smoking ban soon
President Rodrigo Duterte is supposed to sign the executive order on nationwide smoking ban within the week. However, the President said he must first study it carefully before implementing. “ I’m...
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Poor diet tied to nearly half of U.S. deaths from heart disease, stroke,...
A woman eats her lunch at an outdoor cafe in Sydney September 6, 2005. Binge eating disorder may last much longer than the more well-established eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia...
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Smoking during pregnancy tied to eye damage in kids
A woman is silhouetted as she smokes a cigarette in central Sydney August 1, 2013. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz (Reuters Health) – When women smoke during pregnancy or have underweight babies their children...
View ArticleNew HIV cases in the country reaches 844 in January — HARP
The number of HIV-related cases has further risen in the month of January. Data shows that many of the HIV positive are men, while the youngest to have contracted the disease is 3 years old. The post...
View ArticleNew HIV cases in the country reaches 844 in January — HARP
MANILA, Philippines — The number of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) cases has already reached 844 according to the report of the HIV / AIDS...
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DOH, Popcom urge SC to lift TRO on Reproductive Health Law
The Department of Health and the Population Commission express concern over the increasing rate of maternal deaths in the country. For this reason, DOH and Popcom are asking the Supreme Court to lift...
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