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Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.
07:28:39 2009-11-22
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Four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage have died of swine flu, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency on Saturday.
01:49:38 2009-11-22
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases among Filipino youth “have been increasing at an unprecedented rate,” the United Nations representative’s office in Manila has warned.
00:18:12 2009-11-22
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases among Filipino youth "have been increasing at an unprecedented rate," the United Nations representative’s office in Manila has warned.
19:34:28 2009-11-21
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FOURTEEN elementary pupils were believed to have been poisoned after eating repacked biscuits in Barangay Lopez Jaena in the town of Murcia, Negros Occidental, on Wednesday, health and police officials said Thursday.
21:26:57 2009-11-20
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WHILE the world has successfully eradicated smallpox and is making headway to permanently reduce the global number of polio and measles cases to negligible levels, there is however, one infectious disease that we will never be able to beat head on: Rabies.
20:56:58 2009-11-20
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The hardening of the arteries associated with heart attacks and strokes is not just a modern phenomenon, according to new research showing ancient Egypt's pharaohs suffered from heart disease too.
17:19:08 2009-11-18
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An organization caring for those with autistic spectrum disorders has reacted to news articles and anonymous text messages that ridicule people with autism to undermine front-running presidential candidate Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino.
16:52:53 2009-11-18
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The Department of Health submitted to the agriculture department on Wednesday its recommendation to ban the aerial spraying of pesticides in banana plantations in Mindanao.
15:02:56 2009-11-18
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WASHINGTON - Doctors and experts Wednesday are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year.
10:18:38 2009-11-18
