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20% of Metro heart attacks due to passive smoke
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
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Philippines�Second-hand smoke causes over 20 percent of the number of heart attacks in Metro Manila, officials from the Department of Health (DoH) said on Monday. One to seven hours of weekly exposure to second-hand smoke increases the number of heart...
Tags: Francisco Duque III, heart attacks, secretary francisco, health secretary, Philippines, World Health Organization, Department of Health
Drugstores violating drugs price cuts
Manila :: Philippines | 3 months ago
Credibility Health inspectors caught some drugstores and private hospitals violating a new executive order lowering prices of essential medicines, on Saturday, when the order took effect. In a press briefing, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said he received...
Tags: price cut, Department of Health, essential medicines, drug stores, secretary francisco, DOH
Proposal to halve drug prices for Filipinos
Manila :: Philippines | 4 months ago
Credibility The unusual collective action, which covers products that account for 10-15 per cent of the companies’ local sales, followed weeks of meetings with health officials and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over how to make medicines more affordable to Filipinos,...
Tags: essential medicines, health secretary, president gloria, secretary francisco, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Health department, Pfizer Philippines, executive order, Francisco Duque III, Department of Health
No more total school shutdown – DoH
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility Philippines Instead of shutting down entire schools, the Department of Health (DoH) said school officials should suspend only the specific classes and offices attended by students or personnel who have Influenza A(H1N1). The guidelines for the suspension...
Tags: vaccine, Philippines, Thailand, Department of Health, health secretary, secretary francisco, World Health Organization, Francisco Duque III, h1n1 flu, Public Health Ministry
Philippines reports 1st swine flu-related death
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility Philippines— The Philippines confirmed Monday its first swine flu-related death -- a 49-year-old woman who died from congestive heart failure but who also tested positive for the H1N1 virus. The fatality is the second in the Asia-Pacific region related...
Tags: Philippines, Department of Health, flu cases, swine flu, Francisco Duque III, health secretary, secretary francisco, old woman
Optional quarantine for Miriam students
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility Ines de Guzman said. We did not cancel the classes because even if we do, there's no assurance that no one will get infected...If we suspend the classes, students will just go malling around where they can also get the virus, de Guzman said over the...
Tags: Philippines-Why, h1n1 flu, The Department of Health, Francisco Duque III, flu cases, health emergency, health secretary, tested positive, secretary francisco, confirmed cases
Philippines reports first domestic H1N1 flu cluster
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility Philippine health authorities have reported the country's first cluster of domestic H1N1 flu cases after a group of primary school students were infected in a remote northern village. Eric Tayag, chief of the National Epidemiology Center, said the "community...
Tags: Philippines-The Department of Health, health secretary, Nueva Ecija, community outbreak, Health Department, secretary francisco, Francisco Duque III
DLSU student tests positive for AH1N1—DOH
Manila :: Philippines | 6 months ago
Credibility Philippines A foreign student at a university in Manila was found positive for the swine flu virus, prompting authorities to suspend classes there until June 14, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Wednesday. June 4 to 14 or 10 days after an international...
Tags: Francisco Duque III, health secretary, Philippines, The Department of Health, secretary francisco, World Health Organization, De La Salle University, DLSU, exchange students, h1n1 flu
DoH exec teaches pupils proper hand washing
Manila :: Philippines | 6 months ago
Credibility Philippines-Health Secretary Francisco Duque III taught elementary students proper hand-washing habits and checked hand-washing facilities to prevent the spread of A/H1N1 flu and other diseases. "Proper hand washing is the simplest form of preventing...
Tags: Francisco Duque III, health secretary, proper hand, secretary francisco
2 swine flu victims getting well
Manila :: Philippines | 6 months ago
Credibility Philippines-The Department of Health is looking forward to declaring the country's two confirmed cases of influenza A(H1N1) contained such that they could no longer infect others. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said both patients-the 10-year-old...
Tags: Philippines-The Department of Health, Francisco Duque III, secretary francisco, health secretary, flu virus, coconut oil, DOH, virgin coconut
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