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THE modern world is spending a fortune just to keep its citizens out of sickbed. Around 80 percent of a country’s Gross National Product is spent just on treating chronic diseases, a figure not just representative of the United States but all other countries that follow Western lifestyles.
20:57:21 2009-11-20
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ASKED by critics about how he could afford trips to the US and costly cancer treatment, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña yesterday said that apart from his salary as mayor, he has other sources of income, mostly from private businesses.
09:51:33 2009-11-20
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GAZA CITY -- In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.
10:39:51 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
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BOXER Z “The Dream” Gorres’ post-op neurologic status continues to improve three days after the tragic aftermath of his points victory against Luis Melendez of Colombia.
08:18:28 2009-11-18
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THE wife of Cebuano boxer Z “The Dream” Gorres has been touched by the outpouring of support for her husband who is recovering from the head injury in Las Vegas.
08:18:10 2009-11-18
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THE Mandaue City government is willing to extend assistance to boxing champion Z “The Dream” Gorres” who is now in a coma at a hospital in Las Vegas after he collapsed in the ring after winning the bantam weight division fight.
09:53:03 2009-11-16
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WASHINGTON -- US basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has gone public with his fight against a rare form of leukemia, urging regular doctor visits and improved health care for the poor.
02:05:45 2009-11-11
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The prospects of promoting Cebu as a medical tourism destination showed much promise in yesterday’s “Medical & Dental/Health & Wellness Forum”which highlighted the city’s has advances in medical care.
10:24:11 2009-11-06
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THE H1N1 influenza (often erroneously called Swine flu) that initially surfaced in the United States in mid-April 2009 has already infected millions of Americans, 20,000 of them requiring hospitalization, with a death toll of more than 1000, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
10:22:41 2009-11-02
