Category: Health
Sorbetes science: Is “dirty ice cream” really dirty?
Judge Florentino Floro via Wikimedia Commons In the Philippines, we don’t have ice cream trucks. Instead, we have our mamang…
Tuberculosis in the Philippines: a serious health issue requiring urgent action
Ezra Acayan •The Philippines is among eight countries that accounted for more than 66% of TB cases worldwide in 2021.…
Traditional Filipino medicine and the quest to cure the incurable
Jaikishan Patel/Unsplash.com Traditional Filipino medicine has endured centuries of colonization. Now, modern science is able to shed a different light…
Stressed or sleep-deprived? You might have a higher risk of breast cancer
Weand Ybañez •Two Filipina scientists from the University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Science (UPD-CS) found a conclusive…
Sapat at epektibo nga ba ang mga smoking ban?
Tiểu Linh/Pexels (Original article in English by Mikael Angelo Francisco; translation by Pearl Uy) Iba’t ibang stratehiya na ang naisagawa upang tulungan…
Do smoking bans really work — and are they enough?
Tiểu Linh/Pexels While various strategies have been adopted over the years to help smokers quit — including the emergence of…
Indigenous vegetables: a possible solution to PH pandemic hunger
UPLB/DOST-PCAARRD Food insecurity remains a pressing problem in the Philippines, exacerbated by natural and man-made disasters, rising prices of basic…
What contraceptives are available for women in the Philippines?
Contraception is a heavy, distrusted word. In its more familiar, bite-sized term we find more comfort, though it is still,…
Your science textbook is wrong: The truth about the ‘tongue map’
VectorStock You may have been taught that only specific areas of the tongue can detect particular tastes. You may have…
Vaccines work. That’s exactly how we eradicated smallpox
Getty Images On December 9, 1979, a global commission of scientists confirmed the eradication of a 3,000-year-old killer. Lethal, incurable,…
