Colleagues sometimes find us odd when we advise our heart patients to listen to classical music, specifically Mozart’s sonatas, for...
We recently diagnosed a newly retired teacher with Parkinson’s disease or PD, and referred him to the neurologist (brain and...
The Philippine Society of Hypertension (PSH), headed by Dr. Deborah Ignacia Ona, and the Philippine Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society (PLAS),...
A middle-age patient who read last week’s column on the health benefits of coffee asked us if the same could...
A patient who drinks up to eight cups of brewed coffee daily asked us if it’s bad for his health....
Sometime ago, a 51-year-old housewife whom we’ve been treating for several years for high blood pressure, complained of an increasing...
A patient who read our column last week on the health hazards of heavily processed foods told us that indulging...
(First of two parts) Over lunch last week, we had an interesting chat with Dr. Angel Araneta, a diabetes expert...
(Conclusion) Having diabetes is certainly bad news, but just like blood-pressure control in hypertension, adequate control of the blood sugar...
Next week, I’m honored to be participating in the first International Conference on Health Risk Reduction in Africa, to be...
