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With the approval of the Vaporized Nicotine Products Regulation Act by the Senate in December 2021, several groups have expressed concerns about the provisions of the bill. The Department of Health (DOH) has earlier released a statement opposing the “anti-health”…

The flu is an airborne virus that spreads very quickly. It can circulate in a community in as little as two days and stay active for up to 20 days. And the number of deaths it causes every year is…

What Do We Know About Road Safety Month? With road safety plans in effect, the Philippines continues to enforce greater measures to decrease the number of road issues and incidents. Under Proclamation No. 115-A, May is declared to be Road…

The Department of Education (DepEd) is proposing to open School Year 2022-2023 on August 22, 2022 by using blended learning with more face-to-face classes. Among 47,000 public schools and 12,000 private schools in the country, more than 14,000 schools nationwide…

Despite heavy rains recently, the country is well into the dry season since the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)1 dubbed its beginning last month. PAGASA Administrator Vicente Malano, in a statement, advised the public to ‘take precautionary…

According to the WHO Global Cancer Observatory, Colorectal cancer is the third most common occurring type cancer among Filipinos (2nd most common among men and 3rd most common among women).  The colon and the rectum are tubular muscular structures that…

In line with the Department of Health’s (DOH) ongoing efforts to expand the coverage of COVID-19 vaccination, the vaccination rollout of the pediatric population aged 5-11 years old has begun last February 4, 2022. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is the only COVID-19 vaccine…