The truth behind 25 health myths
By
Ching Alano
| July 24, 2011 - 12:00am
The truth is, there are just so many health myths out there that it’s hard to separate fat, er, fact from fiction.
Sunday Lifestyle
Do eye problems really return after LASIK?
April 23, 2009 - 12:00am
Myths about LASIK multiply as fast as the number of its patients and the proliferation of clinics that offer such service.
Health And Family
Secrets to building great firms
By
Wilson Lee Flores
| December 17, 2007 - 12:00am
An old Asian proverb says that the first generation creates the wealth, the second generation builds it and the third generation loses the family fortune. How can we buck this trend? How do we ensure continued...
Lifestyle Business
Keeping abreast of breast cancer facts
By
Ching M. Alano
| October 24, 2006 - 12:00am
It is said that while half the female population of the world may have breast cancer, the other half is afraid of getting it. The grim facts are hard to ignore: One in eight women will get breast cancer...
Health And Family
Unmasking the beauty myth
By
Arjorie Young-Laurel, MD
| September 3, 2006 - 12:00am
This Week’s Winner: Arjorie Young-Laurel, MD, is a member of the Philippine Dermatological Society. She is married and has a boy and a girl. The family visits at least three bookstores a week, and each member...
Sunday Lifestyle
The myth of ‘The One Who Got Away’
By
Rica Bolipata-Santos
| September 3, 2006 - 12:00am
Something about the rain always makes me melancholic. Maybe it’s the way everything suddenly turns gray. Just a few weeks ago, the garden outside my window – let me correct that, the fabulous English garden...
Sunday Lifestyle
Our man in the Myth Mausoleum
By
DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia
| March 9, 2006 - 12:00am
He is no rock star, not even of the celebrity caliber of those under "voluntary home arrest" in the Pinoy Big Brother series. Nor is he one of those walking refrigerators to whom people want to attach their...
Science and Environment
To Ma’am with love
By
Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS
| June 18, 2002 - 12:00am
Today is the first anniversary of my, ehem, teaching career. It has been one year since I got up that podium for the first time...
Young Star
Scientific studies show most fears over GMOs unfounded
By
Rose de la Cruz
| June 9, 2002 - 12:00am
The virulent attack on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or genetically enhanced products on their supposed harmful effects on the environment, on humans and animal health safety and even their allergenic impact...
Agriculture
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