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GE Healthcare: Advanced Medical Technologies Installed in Mindanao Hospitals

MPIC hospitals in Mindanao to install advanced technologies to improve disease detection and treatment.

Two private Mindanao hospitals operated by Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, Inc. (MPHHI), the healthcare unit of conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments, Corp., have recently announced their purchase of advanced medical technologies developed by GE Healthcare — an investment which aims to improve disease detection and treatment in the Philippines’s southernmost island.

Davao Doctors Hospital is the first hospital in the Philippines to offer GE Healthcare’s wide-bore MRI system for enhanced diagnostic capabilities. The facility will also install a high-definition, low dose CT scanner.
West Metro Medical Center to install GE Healthcare’s multi-modality technologies—a CT scanner, fixed and mobile X-ray, surgical C-arm, ultrasound, anesthesia machine and infant warmer — to improve access to quality healthcare services in Zamboanga City.

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Del Monte Pineapples: Healthy Eating Starts at Home

Parents should lead by example for kids
to develop healthy eating habits

Teaching kids to eat healthy is a challenge for any parent. Children would rather eat their fill of candy and junk food instead of fruits and vegetables. Although it’s perfectly fine for them to eat a few sweets every now and then, it’s important for children to develop healthy eating habits early on.

Parents definitely play a big part in the overall development of young children. From the way they talk to the way they act, kids primarily learn by emulating their parents. This applies to healthy eating habits as well. The way parents talk about food, cook meals, and eat all play an important role in influencing children in developing healthy eating habits.

Del Monte Pineapples

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Prevent Cervical Cancer – Get Vaccinated!

Cervical Cancer is still one of the top killers of women in the Philippines. Preventable, curable yet many women are either unaware or don’t have the means to get vaccinated. I hope this article will somehow help you understand why it’s very important for women like us to at least take the first step, go to your OB-Gyne and have a Pap Smear test.

Cervical Cancer Awareness

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Aster DM Healthcare: Paperless System through its EMR Technology

Just months after it officially launched its Philippine operations, the Aster Medical and Diagnostics Clinic, owned by Aster DM Healthcare, is revolutionizing how medical services is being offered in the country through the introduction of the electronic medical records (EMR) as part of the value-add to its services. All transactions are paperless, from the moment patients sign in at the reception up to their consultations with the doctor, or different doctors at the clinic.

Aster Clinic DM HealthCare

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ATC FatOut: Royal Treatment Fans Day with Kim Chiu

One of today’s brightest stars came from humble beginnings, from a teenage girl who dreamt of being a celebrity, finally blossomed into one of the brightest stars in the industry of showbiz. Kim Chiu has proven that a simple girl from Cebu can achieve superstar status. It’s almost too easy for her to captivate anyone with her style of acting and her bubbly personality and thanks for her wide support of her fans, she is now dubbed as the Chinita Princess.

ATC FatOut Royal Treatment Fans Day Kim Chiu

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Melanoma: Risk Factors, Diagnosis and Treatment (Infographic)

Worldwide Incidence of Melanoma

Etiology and Risk Factors

  • Sun exposure
  • Severe sunburn at a young age
  • Features associated with a fair complexion
  • Number of melanocytic nevi
  • Presence and number of dysplastic nevi
  • Positive family history
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Unhealthy Lifestyle Can Cause Potential Diseases

Nine in 10 Filipino consumers surveyed by global nutrition company Herbalife are “highly concerned” about the potential diseases that an unhealthy lifestyle can cause them, with the same number believing that simple lifestyle changes can help improve their overall well-being.

A good number of the respondents expressed willingness to adopt a healthy lifestyle; 79 percent said that they would cut down on unhealthy foods, 78 percent expressed their willingness to exercise more regularly, and 72 percent said they would make better nutrition choices.

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VitaPops – Pop Rocks Vitamin C for Children

I remember when I was a kid, I used to be sickly and a frequent visitor in the hospital. I hated drinking medicines because then, they all tasted yucky and made me vomit. A time came when I had to pretend I drank them religiously but my dad caught me hiding the meds in a secret pocket under the huge Narra wooden table.

When I became a mom, of course my fears included repeating the same situations and mistakes but luckily, medicines and supplements these days have different flavors to suit the children’s taste buds. I’m glad the pharmaceutical companies thought of this brilliant idea of making flavored syrups especially. I can’t say the same with most tablets and capsules though but happy that my teenage son can take the awful taste.

Last year, a new vitamin C product was introduced by Unilab, the biggest pharmaceutical company in the Philippines namely VitaPops.

VitaPops

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Boost Your Immune System with Conzace!

We used to be a family who never missed a trip to the hospital once a month. But, things changed over less than a year ago. Somehow, the lifestyle change and new medicines/vitamins opened a door to healthy bodies thus less visits to the doc.

I work online, handling a few people and tons of work. I sleep barely 4 or 5 hours a day. I take a nap yeah, but you can call it a “power nap”, coz it only lasts about 15 minutes. But each time, I feel renewed energy, enough to last me a few more hours and by 8pm, my eyes feel drowsy and my head, reeling.

Hubby works in a posh hotel. He’s a sup and apart from handling his department’s staff, he juggles between 3 other tasks. He comes home tired and sometimes even falls asleep while sitting down. Need I say more?

As for the kids, they both have mild asthma. Sudden changes in weather can make them sick, as well as things that other kids usually shrug off.

So basically, sicknesses were dragging us down to the hospital bed and let’s not forget, draining our savings to a big 0.

Of course like any parent, we looked for solutions. We found some for the kids and luckily, they’re far better and honestly haven’t been sick this first half of the year. If you wanna know why, please READ MY REVIEW HERE.

Hubby and I on the other hand, is taking Conzace. We discovered this nutritional supplement late last year and since then been taking it. Believe me, we have tried many others but to no avail.

 Conzace Nutritional Supplement

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Life Changing Decisions

My life seemed to shatter into pieces when our family doctor diagnosed me with high blood pressure. I know it sounds overreacting, but knowing how people with high blood pressure live their life is definitely alarming for me. I never thought that teens my age are not exempted from this health threat. I have friends that are way older than me who are now very conscious with everything they do; even cutting back some activities we used to do just to avoid the pressure to rise. That makes me very afraid. Now, I need to constantly check my blood pressure with my newly-bought Welch Allyn sphygmomanometer to see if my blood pressure is under control. I guess I need to have that one as part of my daily routine.