Germany: 365 more sickened in bacterial outbreak
June 1, 2011 - 5:49pm
Germany's national disease control center says another 365 people have been sickened in a foodborne bacterial outbreak, including nearly 100 more suffering from severe and potentially fatal symptoms.
Fast facts on sudden unexpected death
March 15, 2011 - 12:00am
Sudden unexpected deaths have baffled many through the years, but recent research has finally linked this condition to a heart condition called Brugada Syndrome.
Health And Family
Reader: OK to use popular songs for campaign jingle?
By
The Ear
| March 30, 2010 - 12:00am
A mediaman who heard this commented that the probable reason for using popular songs is to make their names easy for the voters to remember.
Freeman Opinion
Mediterranean diet plus nuts lowers CV risk
By
YOUR DOSE OF MEDICINE
| By
Charles C. Chante MD
| September 13, 2009 - 12:00am
An ad libitum Mediterranean-style diet, supplemented with daily serving of mixed nuts, appears to decrease the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in older people at high risk for cardiovascular disease, according to...
Opinion
Carpal tunnel syndrome: There's light at the end of the tunnel
By
Tyrone M. Reyes M.D.
| August 4, 2009 - 12:00am
When nerves travel from the spinal cord to the limbs, they are housed within passageways or tunnels, which may become narrowed...
Health And Family
Popular singing group takes up the Down Syndrome cause
April 7, 2009 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines – It is understandably difficult for some parents to accept that their children will, in some ways, be different from the others.
Health And Family
Weight loss and high protein diet
January 20, 2009 - 12:00am
Obesity often goes hand in hand with the metabolic syndrome — a cluster of five factors that include high blood pressure, a large waist circumference, elevated blood sugar and triglycerides, and reduced blood...
Health And Family
Que sera, Sarah
By
Joanne Rae M. Ramirez
| September 9, 2008 - 12:00am
From out of the blue she came, and all eyes were — are still — on her. She may not yet have won the vote (or the vote for her running-mate John McCain), but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has already won a second,...
Newsmakers
Kids with Down’s syndrome get culinary training
By
Ghio Ong
| February 15, 2007 - 12:00am
An international school for hotel management and the culinary arts with a branch in the Philippines said Filipino children with Down’s syndrome can still...
Headlines
Diet, nutrition, and cancer - Part III
By
YOUR DOSE OF MEDICINE
| By
Charles C. Chante MD
| July 2, 2006 - 12:00am
Metabolic syndrome Birth weight and the development of metabolic syndrome during later adult life are very strongly associated. This syndrome is characterized by metabolic changes that are associated with an...
Opinion
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