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SM Foundation: The road to health and wellness

The year was 2001 and Connie Angeles—public servant and erstwhile film and television actress—was about to embark on a new career at the end...

Facts & figures about SM Foundation health and medical programs

There are six areas of health and wellness covered by the SM Foundation’s health and medical programs. These include: Medical Missions with Mobile Clinic...

In war and in peace

It started with timely visits from SM Foundation’s Health and Wellness Program Executive Director Connie Angeles. “I get invited to many military functions,” Angeles said,...

Dengue de Rigueur

Summer comes, and with it mosquitoes and dengue. Even as the holiday cold fritters away, the Department of Health has already noticed an alarming spike...

Press freedom: Yes, it matters

A free and independent press is one of the benchmarks used to measure the strength of a country’s democracy, and the level of its...

Measles rising

Measles has staged a comeback as a major public health threat.  As early as 2014, the country was already battling against the disease, with the final tally...

The Little Prince of six-strings cross paths with the Rogue Traveler

  Three claps silenced the whole place. Everyone transfixed their gaze to the person on the stage, the Executive Director of Alliance Française de Manille,...

Manix Abrera: Rockin’ the Stars

I first met Manix Abrera in a van of all places, enroute to Quezon Province, while he was fast asleep. We were to deliver each...

On ‘True Enchantment’

Very rarely do I hear fiction writers disparaged for their fiction like it was some crime or disease people should steer clear of. Not from...

Asymptotes

I instantly felt the void when I laid my eyes on her. I know for myself that I knew her like the back of...