When March comes the first thing that comes to mind is St. Patrick’s Day. Do we even know that March is also the Save Your Vision month? Yes, Save Your Vision Month is really a national observance that was started years ago and is held every March with the aim of increasing awareness regarding good [...]
Today is World AIDS Day. After three decades, are we making any progress eradicating HIV/AIDS? Combating HIV has obviously been one of the greatest challenges for science and finding cure or the vaccine that will truly eradicate it remains elusive. But now, we have the means, the medicines and other tools to ensure that we [...]
The tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are users and ex-users of tobacco and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is said to be the most powerful tobacco control tool that’s at the disposal of the international [...]
This year’s theme – Achieving Progress and Impact – is aimed at attaining zero malaria death by 2015. However, international health organizations, governments and communities cannot make this goal a reality without the support of every individual. Now, will you do your part? Every year, there are about 800,000 lives lost to malaria, millions share [...]
Challenge yourself to fight the superbugs. It sounds impossible that we can actually win over the antimicrobial resistant bugs, because we can see that they are becoming even stronger every time we try to eliminate them. They are able to naturally develop, for themselves, ways on how to continue living and thriving, using and beating [...]
Nobody better understands what it feels like to suffer from mental illness than the ones responsibly caring for the sufferers, usually the family and the health care professionals working in mental institutions. They see, first hand, the debilitating effects of mental disorientation, much less untreatable mental incapacity. Both the physical and social health will not [...]
Considering the work environment and the many responsibilities assigned to nurses, it is just right […]
Aside from radiation exposure brought by radiation-emitting devices and serious infections acquired in the hospitals, […]
After the successful feature of the Drive Sober video in the Community Education Section of […]
