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[Title] => Better alternatives to hospital waste incinerators
[Summary] => Thermal and chemical technologies are cheaper and more effective alternatives to incineration of hospital wastes which is found to emit dangerous pollutants in the environment, a US-based Filipino chemist said.
Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, who specializes in the management of hazardous and biohazardous waste, said he personally recommends thermal technology in the form of "autoclaving," because it is cheaper than high-tech incinerators and uses steam to destroy pathogens.
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[Title] => In Nutrition Month, DOH bats for iodized salt
[Summary] => Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit urged consumers yesterday to use iodized salt to make it more available in the market.
Dayrit said the brain and nervous system needs iodine, a mineral and component of the thyroid hormones, to develop and function normally.
Dayrit told The STAR yesterday studies show that household consumption of iodized salt has "remained low" despite the general population’s awareness of its importance.
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[Title] => In Nutrition Month, DOH bats for iodized salt
[Summary] => Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit urged consumers yesterday to use iodized salt to make it more available in the market.
Dayrit said the brain and nervous system needs iodine, a mineral and component of the thyroid hormones, to develop and function normally.
Dayrit told The STAR yesterday studies show that household consumption of iodized salt has "remained low" despite the general population’s awareness of its importance.
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[Title] => 8 babies delivered at Mayon evacuation centers
[Summary] => LEGAZPI CITY — At least eight babies have been delivered at different evacuation centers in Albay since Mayon volcano started erupting last June 24, health department officials said yesterday.
Meanwhile, Dr. Veronica Madulid, Albay provincial health officer, told reporters the two reported cases of dengue in Legazpi City and Daraga town occurred outside the evacuation centers.
Madulid also denied a television news report that 44,497 evacuees are already suffering from H-fever.
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[Title] => More Mayon eruptions feared; evacuees swell to 35,000
[Summary] => Lull before the storm?
After spewing fountains of bright red lava, Mayon Volcano calmed down yesterday, but authorities warned villagers returning to their homes and farms it may explode anew with more fury.
Jason Aragon, coordinator of the evacuation operations for some 35,000 people in 18 affected villages, said some of the evacuees returned to their homes despite the warnings.
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[Title] => More Mayon eruptions feared; evacuees swell to 35,000
[Summary] => Lull before the storm?
After spewing fountains of bright red lava, Mayon Volcano calmed down yesterday, but authorities warned villagers returning to their homes and farms it may explode anew with more fury.
Jason Aragon, coordinator of the evacuation operations for some 35,000 people in 18 affected villages, said some of the evacuees returned to their homes despite the warnings.
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[Title] => Public warned on cat rabies
[Summary] => Beware of cat rabies, too.
Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit issued this warning after a five-year-old girl, bitten by a pet cat in the right knee, died at the San Lazaro Hospital recently.
Dayrit said that in fact,1.1 percent of rabies cases from 1999 to 2000 involved cats.
"This may be a rare case but this should open our eyes to the fact that cats have rabies, too," he said.  Ella Oducayen
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[Title] => Public warned on cat rabies
[Summary] => Beware of cat rabies, too.
Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit issued this warning after a five-year-old girl, bitten by a pet cat in the right knee, died at the San Lazaro Hospital recently.
Dayrit said that in fact,1.1 percent of rabies cases from 1999 to 2000 involved cats.
"This may be a rare case but this should open our eyes to the fact that cats have rabies, too," he said. — Ella Oducayen
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[Title] => Beauty product poses health risk, tests show
[Summary] => Health experts from the UP Natural Sciences and Research Institute have determined that a beauty product being sold in the market contains strong acids that pose a grave health risk to users.
Recent tests confirmed that the pH balance of Special RDL Babyface Astringent is only 1.89 when the safe and allowed pH balance level for astringents should not be less than 2.
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[Title] => Beauty product poses health risk, tests show
[Summary] => Health experts from the UP Natural Sciences and Research Institute have determined that a beauty product being sold in the market contains strong acids that pose a grave health risk to users.
Recent tests confirmed that the pH balance of Special RDL Babyface Astringent is only 1.89 when the safe and allowed pH balance level for astringents should not be less than 2.
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[Summary] => Thermal and chemical technologies are cheaper and more effective alternatives to incineration of hospital wastes which is found to emit dangerous pollutants in the environment, a US-based Filipino chemist said.
Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, who specializes in the management of hazardous and biohazardous waste, said he personally recommends thermal technology in the form of "autoclaving," because it is cheaper than high-tech incinerators and uses steam to destroy pathogens.
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[Title] => In Nutrition Month, DOH bats for iodized salt
[Summary] => Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit urged consumers yesterday to use iodized salt to make it more available in the market.
Dayrit said the brain and nervous system needs iodine, a mineral and component of the thyroid hormones, to develop and function normally.
Dayrit told The STAR yesterday studies show that household consumption of iodized salt has "remained low" despite the general population’s awareness of its importance.
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[Title] => In Nutrition Month, DOH bats for iodized salt
[Summary] => Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit urged consumers yesterday to use iodized salt to make it more available in the market.
Dayrit said the brain and nervous system needs iodine, a mineral and component of the thyroid hormones, to develop and function normally.
Dayrit told The STAR yesterday studies show that household consumption of iodized salt has "remained low" despite the general population’s awareness of its importance.
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[Title] => 8 babies delivered at Mayon evacuation centers
[Summary] => LEGAZPI CITY — At least eight babies have been delivered at different evacuation centers in Albay since Mayon volcano started erupting last June 24, health department officials said yesterday.
Meanwhile, Dr. Veronica Madulid, Albay provincial health officer, told reporters the two reported cases of dengue in Legazpi City and Daraga town occurred outside the evacuation centers.
Madulid also denied a television news report that 44,497 evacuees are already suffering from H-fever.
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[Summary] => Lull before the storm?
After spewing fountains of bright red lava, Mayon Volcano calmed down yesterday, but authorities warned villagers returning to their homes and farms it may explode anew with more fury.
Jason Aragon, coordinator of the evacuation operations for some 35,000 people in 18 affected villages, said some of the evacuees returned to their homes despite the warnings.
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Jason Aragon, coordinator of the evacuation operations for some 35,000 people in 18 affected villages, said some of the evacuees returned to their homes despite the warnings.
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Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit issued this warning after a five-year-old girl, bitten by a pet cat in the right knee, died at the San Lazaro Hospital recently.
Dayrit said that in fact,1.1 percent of rabies cases from 1999 to 2000 involved cats.
"This may be a rare case but this should open our eyes to the fact that cats have rabies, too," he said.  Ella Oducayen
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Dayrit said that in fact,1.1 percent of rabies cases from 1999 to 2000 involved cats.
"This may be a rare case but this should open our eyes to the fact that cats have rabies, too," he said. — Ella Oducayen
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[Summary] => Health experts from the UP Natural Sciences and Research Institute have determined that a beauty product being sold in the market contains strong acids that pose a grave health risk to users.
Recent tests confirmed that the pH balance of Special RDL Babyface Astringent is only 1.89 when the safe and allowed pH balance level for astringents should not be less than 2.
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Recent tests confirmed that the pH balance of Special RDL Babyface Astringent is only 1.89 when the safe and allowed pH balance level for astringents should not be less than 2.
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August 20, 2001 - 12:00am
