Share The Department of Health (DOH) has marked  June 25 as a registration day for the government’s PhilHealth health insurance program. Entitled as  "PhilHealth Sabado," the DOH said the registration day is for Filipinos who are still not   PhilHealth members but can pay for their premium contributions. [Continue reading]

Share  Health officials announces  cholera outbreak in Bataraza town in Palawan after the death of almost 20 people. Victims were mostly children from a tribe, because of  diarrhea and vomiting. The outbreak started weeks ago. However,  it  was officially declared late Tuesday when the Department of Health recorded an [Continue reading]

Share  The Department of Health     wants to get tough in  its appeal  on tobacco use by  approving  the  enforcing of  rules and regulations of a law that gave more teeth to its regulatory arm, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). During a briefing on Monday, FDA director Dr. Suzette Lazo said [Continue reading]

Share HIV should not be taken lightly.  Philippines is now one of the seven countries in the world with progressively increasing cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Majority  of the new cases are males who obtained the virus through having sex with other males. HIV is the virus that causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency [Continue reading]

Share In Sitio Cabal-asan in Barangay Arpili, Balamban, Cebu,  twenty cases of typhoid fever have been recorded as of Sunday. Department of Health (DOH) officials  and Integrated Provincial Health Office went to  the mountain village and offered water disinfectant to residents. The DOH Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit met [Continue reading]

Share Ex-health secretaries encouraged the Supreme Court to permit graphic picture warnings on cigarette packs. In a  39-page petition for intervention in the case filed by Mighty Tobacco Corporation against the Department of Health, former health secretaries Dr. Esperanza Cabral, Dr. Francisco Duque, Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, Dr. Alberto [Continue reading]

Share As early as now, the Muntinlupa local government has released a total ban on firecrackers and pyrotechnics within the city to prevent any injuries due to misuse, a recurrent problem annually brought about by often raucous celebrations. In Mayor Aldrin San Pedro’s statement, he signed an executive order barring the sale and distribution [Continue reading]

Share Around 30,018 families in Northeastern Luzon were affected because of floods. This was according to  President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday. The floods were due to  more than 400 millimeters of rain that fell in the region because of a low pressure area. He added that disaster-response operations in the provinces of Cagayan, [Continue reading]

Share Rainy season is fast approaching.  An advisory from the Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday was announced informing  the public to get ready  for leptospirosis as the rainy season enters the country until the end of the year. According to Dr. Eric Tayag, National Epidemilogy Center director, they are expecting  an [Continue reading]

Share Due to reports that some are already turning away suspected dengue patients because of overcrowding,  the Department of Health (DoH) is closely monitoring hospitals in  the country. In an interview with Dr. Eric Tayag,  he said “it’s possible that patients will be turned . We want to assure people that if the [Continue reading]