My father had a cardiac pacemaker implanted in him last week because his heart rate has been very irregular. What does a pacemaker do? Is it true that pacemakers have to be replaced after sometime? Are they really affected by cell phones? — Jonathan M., Las Pinas City.
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There is no such thing as a 100 percent safe drug.
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Avon, the global beauty company for women, and the largest corporate supporter of the breast cancer advocacy gears up for another battle against the dreaded disease.
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More than one million children throughout the world
die from pneumococcal diseases caused by the bacteria called Streptococcus Pneumoniae.
A study conducted among very young children at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in the late 90’s showed that 35 percent of those who fell prey to Streptococcus Pneumoniae die from the disease. The RITM is one of the country’s foremost centers for infectious diseases.
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