Leonardo Di Caprio among celebrities backing new climate initiative
New York, United States | AFP | Wednesday 12/5/2019 – 02:19 UTC+8 Actor Leonardo di Caprio joined former US vice president Al…
In the December issue of H&L (Health and Lifestyle) magazine, the article of pastor Richard Mendoza on abstemiousness piqued my...
I was recently invited to a series of talks on how to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure, heart failure and other types of heart diseases by drug and nondrug treatments.
We have expressed some concerns with fad diets, such as low-calorie crash diets (“Crash diets—losing weight at the heart’s expense?” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb. 8, 2018). Crash diets have been shown by CMR (cardiovascular magnetic resonance) to be associated with deterioration of heart function.
Sitting most hours of the day is a bane of modern society, and this so-called “sitting disease” has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and even breast and colon cancers.
Health experts have been wondering about the increased prevalence of kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) in the general population in the last two to three decades.
On several occasions, I’ve written about people who have mastered the fine art of aging gracefully. One such person we deeply miss is Dr. Ramon “Monching” Abarquez Jr., who passed away around a month and a half ago, a few months short of his 90th birthday.
Last week, I had the privilege to chair one of the plenary sessions at the annual convention of the European Society of Hypertension in Barcelona, Spain.
Menopause in women usually ushers in a bothersome list of symptoms, such as hot flashes, chills, night sweats, sleep problems, osteoporosis, irritability, depression and mood changes, weight gain and slowed metabolism and sexual dysfunction.
Heart specialists in the world had another great scientific smorgasbord last week in Munich, Germany, at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology. It’s the most attended medical congress, with more than 35,000 specialists, scientists and medical practitioners from all over the world.
Last week, I had the privilege of cochairing a session in a conference in Milan with Prof. Michael Alderman, a distinguished professor emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
