Using needles — not bullets — to solve the drug problem
By Pola Esguerra del Monte
Multimedia Editor
“You must remember that those who are already (using) shabu for almost one year, they are dead. They are...
Time out: Dangers of disrupting your body clock
PARIS -- Messing with your body’s clock is dangerous business, in fact it could make you sick -- or worse.
The inner timekeeper dubbed the...
Skipping breakfast may double risk of hard arteries — study
MIAMI -- People who skip breakfast or eat poorly to start the day are twice as likely to develop hardened arteries, which can lead...
Cell phone use by expectant mothers not tied to brain problems in kids
PREGNANT WOMEN who use cell phones may be no more likely to have kids with brain development problems than expectant mothers who avoid mobile...
Universal Health Care: a vision and long-term thinking
Teodoro Padilla
A NUMBER of important global issues took center stage during the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. These...
The promise of the R&D pipeline
Teodoro Padilla
GROWING scientific knowledge and the rapidly increasing pace of technological advances are ushering in an era of endless possibilities for the prevention, treatment, and...
Talking about supplements, gut health, and fasting
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Reporter
AS others indulged in a sinful lunch of pasta, burgers, and macarons, Dr. Ted Achacoso ate two servings of...
Demonstrating potential new medicine safety and efficacy
By Teodoro Padilla
THE QUALITY, safety, and efficacy of medicines are primary to the drug discovery and development process. When a candidate medicine demonstrates promising results, its...
A guide to breathing freely
As a person goes through life healthy and unburdened, he tends to take the tiny details of living for granted. How he can see...
A problem involving the heart
Sometimes, a dysfunctional heart is to blame for one’s breathlessness. This is the case with pulmonary edema or oedema, a condition where there is...
Risk factors for lung diseases
In a populated city, maintaining healthy lungs can be a challenge. One might make healthy personal choices but external factors and other people’s choices about...
The top infectious killer
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading infectious disease threat in the world which is responsible for...