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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FAKE DOH advisory on ‘respiratory infection’ in China circulates

By VERA Files | Jan 05, 2023 10:13 AM

Spreading among Facebook (FB) users this January is a bogus warning attributed to the Department of Health (DOH), supposedly cautioning the public against an antibiotic-resistant “upper respiratory infection” from China. A part of the text read: “DOH Health Bulletin to the Public: The Upper Respiratory Infection affecting China at present is quite serious. The virus […]

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PH’s fight vs tobacco at a crossroads amid COVID pandemic

By Robbin M. Dagle | Feb 04, 2022 4:09 PM

One product’s availability online that many find worrisome is tobacco.

COVID-19, DOH, tobacco, tobacco control

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Vape bill exposes young ‘vulnerable’ consumers to health risks, endangers already weak enforcement

By Klaire Ting and Reiven Pascasio | Jan 17, 2022 11:54 AM

Duterte, who expressed his anti-vaping stance strongly in 2019, has the option to sign it into law, allow it to lapse into law after 30 days, or veto the entire or parts of the proposed law.

DOH, smoking, vape bill, vape use

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COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines are NOT dangerous

By VERA Files | Jan 13, 2022 2:06 PM

While it is true that COVID-19 vaccines have risks of complications, “severe or life-threatening reactions are extremely rare” according to the Department of Health’s (DOH) Frequently Answered Questions page.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post comparing symptoms of Omicron, Delta infections, common flu FALSE

By VERA Files | Jan 13, 2022 10:54 AM

The DOH affirmed there is no clear distinction in the symptom profiles of an earlier coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection from other virus variants and influenza.

COVID-19, DOH, Omicron variant

News Seeing through the Smoke

Dalan padung sa ‘zero tobacco’: mga hinabako nga gustong moundang nakakuhag suporta gikan sa DOH Quitline

By Nica Rhiana Hanopol | Jan 07, 2022 2:09 PM

Matod sa Mayo Clinic sa United States (US), ang pagpanabako og sigarilyo usa sa mga nagdala og risgo sa high blood pressure. Mga kemikal gikan sa tabako mahimong “makadaut sa walls sa ugat” nga mahimong “mopadako sa risgo sa sakit sa kasingkasing.”

DOH, DOH quit line, smoking, smoking cessation, vaping

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Ti Dalan Para iti ‘zero tobacco’: Dagiti agusar iti sigarilyo nga kayat nan ti agsardeng ket makaala iti extra nga suporta manipud iti DOH Quitline

By Nica Rhiana Hanopol | Jan 05, 2022 3:41 PM

Iti aldaw nga naipan idiay emergency room ti Cainta Hospital gapu iti hypertension wenno ‘high blood’,Jehoiakim Cabia, edad 28, ket nabagaan nga ti panagsigarilyo ket dakkel iti naitulong na isu nga napasamak daytoy kenkuana.

DOH, DOH quit line, smoking, smoking cessation

Seeing through the Smoke

Philippines: Tobacco industry’s ‘laboratory rat’

By Jauhn Etienne Villaruel | Dec 27, 2021 5:54 PM

FDA director Ana Rivera justified their grant-seeking venture by revealing that the agency had little allocation in 2016, and so funding research was nearly impossible.

Congress, DOH, FDA, Tobacco industry, vape bill

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Road to ‘zero tobacco’: Smokers who want to quit gain extra support from DOH Quitline

By Nica Rhiana Hanopol | Dec 21, 2021 11:56 AM

On the day he was taken to the emergency room of the Cainta Hospital due to hypertension, Jehoiakim Cabia, 28, was told that his smoking was a big factor in the episode.

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Virologists as gatekeepers: Local scientists prepare for the next pandemic

By Klaire Ting and Nica Rhiana Hanopol | Nov 30, 2021 9:54 AM

Months after the World Health Organization (WHO) identified COVID-19 as a pandemic, a team of virologists from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) was tasked to focus on a project to assess the pandemic potential of local animals.

COVID-19, DOH, DOST, epidemic, One Health, Pandemic