Summer is here again and along with the upcoming school vacation, people will be trooping to the provinces again where there are lots of beaches and fresh air. Owners of resorts will be making lots of money as these places become fully booked during the entire summer time. Stalls selling halo-halo begin to sprout at [...]

I have seen it countless times in my practice as a physician – mothers in distress when their children fell ill. It is inevitable. The burden is just so much, a mother would wish to take the place of her child. I can only give reassurance to these mothers that everything will be okay. I [...]

Dengue fever used to be known only as a disease during the rainy season. When the rains come, people are advised to clean their backyards, throw water collecting from old tires and cans left undisturbed and where the culprit of the disease may thrive. Nowadays, dengue has intensified into a year-round threat. We don’t only [...]

Within the several years of my practice as a doctor (15 years) and as a professor (10 years), I have encountered countless fallacies regarding hypertension. It is misconstrued as caused and worsened by taking in multivitamins, that it can be noted by the number of blood cells present in the blood, that it is due [...]

I was talking to my Tia Rose some days back when she mentioned to me that she buys loads of ampalaya on market days and pickles them so they can have it any time of the day, any day of the week. That aside from serving it as a vegetable dish like pakbet or sauteed [...]

All of us experience anger and it is very much a part of being human. But different people express anger in different ways. Different strokes for different folks, as they say. Some suppress it, keeping it to themselves while resenting the other, others burst it out, rant, and make the other person feel that they [...]