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Campaign aims to close gap in osteoporosis treatment
Breakthrough drugs cannot treat disease if patients do not take the treatments over a prescribed period of time. That should be common sense, which unfortunately is not common practice especially among patients suffering from osteoporosis.
Undescended testis
My nephew was born one month premature last month. The pediatrician noted that his right testis was undescended, but we were told that there is no need for treatment yet because there is a good chance that the testis will descend on its own in time. When do you need to treat this condition? What are the health problems that are associated with it? — Joanne M., Makati City
Philips Healthcare reaches out to provinces
Filipino patients now have access to sophisticated, highly specialized medical equipment at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) and four other government hospitals in the provinces which are participating in the ORET program (Ontwikkelings Relevante Export Transacties or Development Relevant Export Transaction), the Official Development Aid (ODA) program arranged by Philips Medical Systems between the Dutch government and the Philippine Department of Health (DoH) to help address the unequal access to healthcare, especially among Filipinos in far-flung areas.
WHO confirms another bird flu death in Indonesia
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization has confirmed a seven-year-old Indonesian girl who died last month was infected with bird flu, a health ministry official said on Thursday, taking the total number of confirmed bird flu deaths in the country to 38.
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