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By Blecenda Varona, MD , DrPH, FACLM, MPH, RND, DiplBLM A research published in Nature Medicine Journal shows individuals recovering from coronavirus just like how they would recover from a common flu. The researchers identified how one’s immune system plays an important role in fighting against coronavirus. Though finding a Read more…
#GADVOCACY Alvin Cloyd H. Dakis, MHSS, RN Alvin Dakis is a nurse by profession, a social scientist, and a certified gender specialist and practitioner. He is an independent consultant of various government institutions on Gender and Development, health, and governance. In my last article I talked about the gender issues Read more…
Busy and lack of sleep, this is what we call modern life. Exchanging 8 hours of enough of sleep just to finish daily tasks and errands. While juggling family, life, work, and relationship within 24 hours. Average sleep time has declined to 20 percent during the last century. This is Read more…
Healing and recovery can happen when you have good sleep. -Blecenda Varona, DRPH, FACLM, DIPIBLM, RND, MPH Ever wonder why there are times when you already had eight hours of sleep yet still feel tired and sleepy after waking up in the morning? The culprit might be your unproper way Read more…
The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) is designated as the leading gender equality and women empowerment body for every Filipina. H&L sits down with Executive Director Emmeline Verzosa to discuss the Commission’s efforts in addressing gender gaps and inequalities, and advocating for women’s rights for all FIlipina By Gelyka Ruth Read more…
By Excel V. Dyquiangco Chef and Menu Creator Maria Sonia Guevara Astudillo never really considered her role to be solely for a man or solely for a woman. For her, when she decided to start her business alone, she took on a boss role that perhaps back in the old Read more…
By Henrylito D. Tacio “Women hold up half the sky,” so goes a Chinese proverb. So much so that in development, gender equality plays a crucial role. And this term “gender” does not allude simply to women or men but to the relationship between two sexes and the way it Read more…
By Patricia D. Maningat, MD, MSC, FPCP, DPSEM Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common hormonal disorder in reproductive-age women affecting between 4-12 percent in this age group. The name of this disorder is quite misleading because not all women with multiple cysts in the ovaries have PCOS. What Read more…
By Juan Dionisio Foronda, MD Are women from Venus and men from Mars? Are females somewhat different from males even in heart disease? The answer is yes! Why are women with diabetes at risk for heart disease? Diabetes alone already imparts twice the risk for heart disease as someone who Read more…