Health

Usually, blood flows from the legs to the heart against gravity.  This is helped by the muscle pump and by valves found along the length of the veins.  These valves allow blood to move in one direction—that is, upwards towards the heart. “When the valves are...

Choose your food wisely and add years to your life,” authors Charlotte Hilton Andersen and Jenn Sinrich wrote in Reader’s Digest. And among the list of anti-aging foods are three of the most common, easily sourced food in the country.  Carrot There’s an old Polish saying that...

by Henrylito D. Tacio It was a warm Sunday morning in Davao City. Five-year-old Jane was swimming with other kids near the seashore. No adults were looking after them. Jane’s mother, Charlene, was busy preparing their food for lunch while the father, Jonathan, was...

Two years ago, in 2015, while undergoing treatment for tuberculosis (TB), 36-year-old “Kevin” was diagnosed as positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  A call center agent from Cagayan de Oro City, he didn’t reveal his status to his colleagues. But TB had taken a toll...

In this month of March, the world celebrates Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. This campaign was first launched in 1999 in the United States to promote colon cancer screening. Since then, it has been universally celebrated annually in March in several countries of the...

The Medical City (TMC) and Maxicare Healthcare Corporation (Maxicare), both recognized leaders in the medical services industry, launched today a first-of-its-kind healthcare plan that will revolutionize the delivery of medical services for TMC patients and Maxicare members. The healthcare plan dubbed “TMC Partner Care”...