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SEOUL, Feb 19, 2024 (AFP) – South Korea ordered trainee doctors back to work Monday after they resigned en masse to protest medical training reforms, with the government looking at using military medics to cope with shortfalls. South Korea says it has one of the lowest doctor-to-population ratios among developed countries, and the government is pushing hard to increase the number of doctors, partly to help a fast-ageing society. But doctors have voiced fierce opposition […]
by Robbie COREY-BOULET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — Medical supply shortages are having fatal consequences in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, with patients succumbing to post-partum haemorrhage or dying for lack of dialysis equipment, the UN’s emergency-response agency said on Thursday. The latest situation report from the agency comes one week after Ethiopia expelled seven senior UN officials over accusations of “meddling”, exacerbating concerns about the humanitarian response in a region where hundreds of thousands reportedly […]
Task Force to lead efforts to determine if variant B.1.1.7 has already entered PHL (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the creation of another Task Force, this time, composed of medical experts and scientists directed at studying the new emerging COVID-19 virus strains or variants that are said to be more infectious than before. In his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Saturday night, Dec. 26, Duterte observed […]
By David Oria There exist a large body of research in the area of childhood psychology that has examined the effects of sleep on behavioral issues in adolescents. In many of these studies, the behavioral problems explored were categorized into two: internalizing difficulties or externalizing difficulties. In the world of psychology, internalizing difficulties are behaviors that result from difficulty coping with negative emotions or stressful situations, so they directed inward (eg. withdrawal, loneliness, fearfulness, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — People who stay up late and have to drag themselves out of bed are likelier to die younger than those who rise and set with the Sun, researchers said Thursday. A survey of more than 430,000 people in Britain found that the night owl had a 10-percent higher risk of dying in the 6.5-year study period than “larks.” “This is a public health issue that can no longer be ignored,” said […]
(Eagle News) – Maaga pa ay nagsagawa na ng libreng medical at dental services ang Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Binondo, Manila ngayong araw. Ang nasabing aktibidad na tinawag na Worldwide Lingap ng Iglesia Ni Cristo ay isinasagawa din sa iba’t ibang dako sa buong mundo at naglalayong magbigay ng libreng serbisyong medical at dental sa mga residente. Dave Peralta – Eagle News Service
by Maureen Cofflard Agence France-Presse More than 28,000 species of plants around the world have a medical use but poor documentation means people are not making the most of the health benefits, according to a survey released on Thursday. Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London recorded 28,187 species in its latest annual survey and said it was probably a “very conservative figure.” New plants discovered over the past year include nine species of […]
Batangas City (Eagle News) — Members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Batangas held a medical mission on Lubang Island in Batangas on Thursday, May 11. The team left for their destination as early as 2:45 in the morning. The INC Batangas Medical and Dental Team—under the leadership of their district minister, Brother Livrado V. Santos, and the assistant district minister, Brother Renel Gravador—traveled for almost three hours to get to Lubang, according to their boatman, Garry […]
by Joshua MELVIN Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A decade after a bike crash that left an American man paralyzed from the shoulders down, he can again feed himself, researchers hailing a medical first reported Wednesday. The remarkable advance hinges on a prosthesis which circumvents rather than repairs his spinal injury, using wires, electrodes as well as computer software to reconnect the severed link between his brain and muscles. “To our knowledge, this […]
QUEZON CITY (Eagle News) – Nagsagawa ng medical at dental mission ang mga kawani ng Quezon City Health Unit sa SB Park Covered Court sa Brgy. Tandang Sora noong Miyerkules, Marso 1. Nagsimula ang nasabing aktibidad bandang 8:00 ang umaga hanggang 3:00 ng hapon. Maraming residente ng naturang barangay at karatig barangay ang nabigyan ng libreng konsultasyon sa sakit, mga gamot, at bunot ng ngipin. Karamihan sa mga dumalo ay maituturing na kapos din sa pangangailangan […]
TABUK CITY, Kalinga (Eagle News) – Sa pamamagitan ng temang “Alaga Ka para sa Maayos na Buhay,” patuloy ang Phil. Health Kalinga sa pagbibigay serbisyo sa mga barangay na sakop ng Tabuk City, Kalinga. Pangunahin sa mga binibigyan nila ng serbisyo ang mga buntis kung saan ay ginagabayan sila kung paano makaka-avail ang mga wala pang Phil. Health. Maturuan naman ang mga mayroon na kung ano ang mga benipisyong medical na kanilang makukuha. Nagkaloob din ang […]
by Karam al-Masri ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — The United Nations hopes to carry out the first medical evacuations from Aleppo on Friday, if the “humanitarian pause” in the Syrian army’s Russian-backed assault on the city holds. Despite a drop in violence after the truce took effect on Thursday there was little sign civilians were heeding calls to leave, and Russia accused rebels of preventing civilians from fleeing the east of the city. Meanwhile NATO chief […]
