Last week, a middle-aged patient we treated after he suffered a heart attack a year ago came to the clinic for a follow-up. Since the heart attack, he has not experienced chest pains.
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.
Our body was really excellently designed by God. In many instances, it is auto-fixing whatever is wrong with it, with no need for strong medicines.
If you can pump your hands in an animated manner to the beat of the springy music “Stayin’ Alive,” you just might be able to save a life when the time comes.
Getting yourself “inked” or tattooed does not seem to be a complicated decision. In just a few hours, you can be the proud bearer of whatever tattoo design you want. But the consequences could mean a lifetime of regret.
The Philippines is considered one of the diabetes “hot spots” in the Western Pacific region, where the disease is already reaching epidemic proportions. Our government knows this too well, and the increased taxes on sugary drinks is just one of the steps being taken to stem the tide.
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.
Doctors now consider the food we eat as part of therapy if we’re ill, or as preventive treatment to maintain wellness, if we’re not sick.
On the way to a dinner appointment last week, a patient—whom we’ve been treating for a heart ailment and who has been free of angina (chest pains due to lack of oxygen in the heart) for quite some time—was caught in a horrendous traffic jam along Edsa.
After reading our column last week (“The AIDS virus is mutating fast,” PDI Lifestyle, 10/23/18), a medical colleague sent a message: “Are you predicting a doomsday scenario wherein the AIDS virus would multiply fast and be incurable?”
