H1N1 News

The media is still abuzz with A (H1N1) news, especially when it recently reported the first Filipino mortality PROBABLY due to it.  Metro Manila has been declared to have a LOW-LEVEL community outbreak.  Many more, even politicians, are becoming more concerned with how the virus rapidly spreads and how the DOH responds to this health problem, [...]

Pandemic

And so the WHO already sounded the A (H1N1) pandemic alarm bell after transmissions of the disease had proven to be more widespread and more people are being infected.  This creates further alarm and panic among people all over the world.    After 40 years, another influenza pandemic is again in the midst of mankind.  This [...]

H1N1

The DOH has just announced the second case of H1N1 influenza virus infection in the country, in the person of a 50-something woman who flew in from US sometime last week.  Though apparently she had already recovered, the threat of an epidemic in the country is still imminent.  We still have to await the developments [...]

Swine Flu

The WHO has raised the swine flu alert level to phase 5, in which cases have already been established to geographically cross from one country to another, from Mexico to the US that is.  One level short of causing a pandemic, this new strain of virus is already an imminent threat to humanity.  Travel restrictions have [...]

Bad Bugs, New Diseases, Updates

Attended a 2-day postgrad course on infectious diseases and tropical medicine at RITM.  All topics are relevant to me.  We learned more about common infectious diseases, enlightened about new emerging diseases (some actually old already), and updated on challenges facing us today, particularly drug resistance.  Bugs are becoming more resistant than ever to our arsenal [...]

The Journey

Attended a lavish drug launching last night and witnessed Pinoy rockstar sensation Ariel Pineda of The Journey perform (I wonder how much money he was paid).  His voice was shattering, the frequency and power of which awakened the NBC tent from the inside to the outside.  His vocal cords would have complained if they could [...]

Bill Gates at TED Conference

One of my favorite bookmarked sites now is TED with the tagline: ideas worth spreading (I really love this phrase).  It features talks by persons from all fields of human endeavor who are shaping the world now.  The TED conference 2009 had Bill Gates (as one of the first speakers) sharing about malaria and education.  A departure from [...]

Ebola Lalala…

Lately been busy with school work–exams, presentations, reports and all.  In our chit-chat (with classmates) over lunch, we learned that there is already a case of Ebola virus transmission to a human from pigs, a pig farm worker in Bulacan.  The person is believed to have caught the virus 6 months ago and he tested [...]

Now what!? Gingko not effective?

Ginkgo biloba, the miracle herb that is touted to prevent dementia and improve memory, has just been proven not to be effective by a clinical trial.  This after I took several of these expensive Ginkgo biloba pills when I was reviewing for our exams in Medicine, the biggest of which was the Board Exams.  I didn’t really know but [...]

Heads Rolling

And so the culprits are out in the case of the poor baby who was decapitated during the course of delivery at Baguio.  The NBI has just ruled in their autopsy findings that the damage was secondary to malpractice when the head was forcibly pulled from the birth canal, and not due to osteogenesis imperfecta [...]