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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 7, urged the public to respect the decision of the Sandiganbayan acquitting former Senator Bong Revilla of plunder. “While justice grinds so slow most of the time it does grind, and when it stops it renders a verdict that is exacting immutable,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said of the special first division’s decision promulgated on Friday that also found Revilla’s former chief of staff, Richard Cambe, and […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — Two more Chinese drug makers have announced that a blood-pressure medication they exported to Taiwan contained a potentially cancer-causing impurity, a month after the same problem at another Chinese manufacturer prompted a global recall. Tianyu Pharm and Rundu Pharma said batches of valsartan, an active ingredient widely used in medications for high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, contained N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which is believed to potentially cause cancer through long-term use. […]
(Eagle News) — Sa pag-aaral ng Department of Health, aabot sa labindalawang milyong Pilipino ang mayroong hypertension. Subalit kalahati lamang sa nasabing bilang o lumalabas na isa sa bawat limang Pilipino ang alam na sila’y mataas ang presyon ng dugo. Ayon pa sa DOH, importanteng malaman agad ng isang indibidwal kung may hypertension ito o wala sa pamamagitan ng simpleng pag-alam sa blood pressure. Maituturing na walking time bomb ang altapresyon bukod sa pagiging silent […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Long-term exposure to urban air pollution incrementally increases the risk of high blood pressure, according to a study released Tuesday of more than 41,000 European city-dwellers. Constant noise pollution — especially traffic — also boosts the likelihood of hypertension, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal. High blood pressure is the most important risk factor for premature illness and death. The study found that one extra adult per […]
Your body can’t function without sodium, so is salt really the blood pressure bogeyman we think it is? What we know and suprisingly don’t know about salt.
