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MANILA, Philippines—Global advances and innovations in the medical field have already made cancer treatable and preventable. However, Filipino c..
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WONDER drugs and modern equipment now available in the country can save more lives if the public is more aware of preventive screening.
While cancer ..
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Health advocates said a huge portion of the country’s cancer burden is preventable, but due to the “inadequate and inaccessible” can..
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Breast and cervical cancer screening is extremely low in the Philippines compared to upper-middle and high-income countries, Valerie Ulep, a senior re..
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“Filipino patients—mostly their family’s breadwinners, are driven to poverty due to cancer, losing Php35.3 billion annually, are at ..
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The Philippine Population Commission (PopCom) has expressed concern over the registered increase of pregnancies among girls aged 10 to 14 years in 202..
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Looking at the health and social security systems literacy of overseas Filipino workers in East Asia, this Policy Note finds that they are only famili..
Policy Notes

Senior citizens avail themselves of different procedures during a medical mission at the Angel Santos Covered Court in Marikina yesterday. The event w..
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Philippine Institute for Development Studies Senior Research Fellow health economist Dr. Valerie Gilbert Ulep presented his study, “The Economic..
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“Filipino patients – mostly their family’s breadwinners, are driven to poverty due to cancer, losing Php35.3 billion annually, are a..
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ADDITIONAL health spending is being billed as a key component of the Philippine economic recovery, with a government think tank saying it will help ma..
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdown measures taken to control its spread brought economies to a halt, turning the public hea..
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A financial service provider in Parañaque City has recently launched a lending application intended for the working-class population.
Th..
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PhilHealth members still pay out of pocket in spite of universal healthcare, according to a group of researchers from the Philippine Institute for Dev..
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ILOILO City – Antique and Guimaras in Western Visayas are among the 27 provinces in the Philippines with less than 0.5 per 1,000 population bed ..
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