President Benigno Aquino III has appointed chief government peace negotiator for the National Democratic Front-Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (NDF-CPP-NPA) Alexander A. Padilla as head of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).
Filipino-American midwife Robin Lim, hailed as the CNN Hero of the Year 2011, has published two books on motherhood.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has enlisted in the last three months around 10,000 more poor households in Region 12 and parts of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as beneficiaries of the national government’s continuing conditional cash transfer program.
On Sunday, I expressed disappointment that the Legislature didn’t make more progress on mental health issues.
Hundreds of Cambodian citizens and dozens of foreigners working in Cambodia lined up to donate their blood on Wednesday during the celebrations of the 10th World Blood Donor Day.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to classify both wild and captive chimpanzees as endangered, a move that could affect future use of chimpanzees in scientific research in the United States.
In his informal interactions with senior citizens and other city constituents recently prior to his official assumption of the post, San Pablo City Mayor-elect Loreto S. Amante advised Philhealth members to take care of their Membership Data Record (MDR) as a vital document.
The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.
While immigration reform is being discussed in Washington DC, President Barack Obama’s Healthcare reform continues to be implemented. With both programs coinciding with each other, health and immigration experts and advocates have concerns especially when it comes to caring for minorities.
The City Health Office has served a preventive closure order on a restaurant along Cesar Climaco Avenue downtown due to flagrant violation of the sanitary law.
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