by Joy Angelica Subido
Breast cancer is one of the most common kinds of cancer. Although some men can be afflicted with the disease, more women suffer from it, with an estimated one million cases diagnosed worldwide each year. For almost half or 500,000 individuals, the ailment will eventually prove fatal. Fortunately, however, increasing awareness about [...]
by Joy Angelica Subido
In the 1967 movie The Graduate, an older, married woman named Mrs. Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft, seduces the character of a young college graduate played by Dustin Hoffman. The situation depicts the concept that while a male’s sexual urges peak when he is young, a woman experiences renewed sexual drive when [...]
The adage, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” is so true, especially when it involves your life and your health. Myths and misconceptions about certain diseases san be deadly. Unfortunately for some, many erroneous beliefs have benn quickly passed on like the common cold.
Such is the case with cervical cancer and HPV (human papillomavirus) [...]
by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.
Years ago, the standard treatment for any kind of localized invasive breast cancer was often a radical mastectomy, which involved the total removal of the whole breast, many lymph nodes and sometimes, skin and muscle of the chest wall.
In the decades since, advancement in the understanding of breast cancer — how [...]
Breast cancer is the leading killer of women ages 35 to 54 worldwide. More than a million developed the disease without knowing it, and almost 500,000 women die from it every year. In Asia, the Philippines has the highest incidence rate of breast cancer and is considered to have the ninth highest incidence rate in [...]
Adults should aim to get in 2 1/2 hours of exercise a week and children should run and play for at least an hour a day, according to new exercise guidelines issued by the US government on Tuesday.
The guidelines, meant to be akin to the “Food Pyramid” nutritional advice, are based on studies that show [...]
by Willie T. Ong, MD
Last July 24, 2007, I wrote an article entitled, “Where in heaven’s name are the cheaper drugs?” Less than 24 hours later, my e-mail inbox was swamped with 47 desperate messages coming from as far as Saudi Arabia and Canada.
Because of space constraints, I’m reprinting only four of the e-mail questions [...]
by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.
Peptic ulcers have plagued human beings throughout the centuries, but the exact cause of the condition was uncertain. In 1940, Dr. A. Stone Freedberg of Harvard Medical School identified unusual curved bacteria in the stomachs of ulcer victims. He suspected that they might be responsible for ulcers but abandoned the research [...]
Cigarette smoking remains the single most preventable cause of death in the United States.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world and is responsible for the death of one in 10 adults worldwide. If current smoking patterns continue, WHO predicts tobacco use will cause some [...]
by Joy Angelica Subido
There is a difference in how young people nowadays deal with and think about sex. They are forthcoming and knowledgeable. They are matter-of-fact. They are so much more comfortable talking about it and less hung up on sex than we were at their age. They sometimes also unnerve us with direct and [...]