Too much medicine?
The culture in the practice of medicine today in general has been assailed by two new studies that highlighted “over diagnosis and over treatment for ailments that might never seriously…
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Boholano dish with a twist
Who travels without getting acquainted with the place’s specialty? In Bohol, the best restaurant to introduce you to the Boholano cuisine is quietly hidden atop a limestone cliff on one…
Under the weather
CALL it the pompous sickness—the spell which hushes the household, with its desert-like stillness felt through its innermost chambers. One in a world unto herself, her own theater. It is…
On Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini’s Zeal for the Gospel
WHENEVER I go to the airport these days, I would always see a group of Chinese teenagers. And I would always wonder how their parents are able to send them…
More than 300,000 in US infected with ‘kissing bug’ disease
A POTENTIALLY life-threatening disease is making its way into the United States through a parasite called Chagas, also known as the “kissing bug.” The Centers for Disease Control reported in…
Generally speaking: Brigadier General Alfredo S. Lim
AT THE center of crime is a brotherhood of hard men, who fight for whatever justice is possible on this deadly world. They’re called cops, whose battle for a little…
Virgie Favila Alvarez encompasses a wide spectrum of terpsichorean prowess
Art authorities hold firm in their pronouncement that a person’s truest expression is through her dance and music…and ‘though the voice may imitate sounds but body language never lies… for…
Deadly superbugs on the rise
Since Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist (a 1945 Nobel laureate), first discovered penicillin in 1923, hundreds of more potent wider spectrum antibiotics have been added to…
Momo Beach House Therapy
Have you ever felt so lifeless, as if each waking day is a struggle to put on different kinds of emotions? Your muscles, nerves, and sinew are so unmotivated and…
Improved govt. healthcare website to avoid past enrollment problems
US officials planned to unveil an improved healthcare insurance website over the weekend, hoping for a smoother second enrollment period under President Obama’s health reform plan. The reconfigured, improved insurance…
People watching as we age
Everywhere people are talking about themselves, discussing their doings, their loves, their fighting, their poems, their goals, their music, their meeting their movies, their millions, their misfortunes—their celebrity (or notoriety)…
Poor sleep quality linked to brain shrinkage, study finds
It is often said that getting a good night’s sleep is important, but what is not so widely known is that poor sleep quality may reduce the size of the…
Cardinal Tagle’s challenge to the Filipino priests in the USA: Meet people at their “wells”!
I’M writing from Orlando, Florida while attending the 2nd General Assembly of the National Association of Filipino Priests—USA. I remember fondly the first assembly that we held three years ago…
Japan’s largest airline brings in-flight meal prepared by Michelin-starred restaurant
Menu for business class starts Dec. 1 LOS ANGELES – Who says airplane food has to be subpar? This December, Japan’s largest airline All Nippon Airways will be serving dishes from…
Study finds working irregular shifts reduces cognitive ability
A RECENT study found that working a job with irregular shifts comes with a price tag greater than the challenge in adjusting sleeping patterns: doing so has a long-term effect…
Aboard a floating carnival
The most notable about time in an ocean voyage is that it is so purely relative. What a fragment is in space, a moment is in time. We sailed in…
Corazon Cajucom Reyes carves her niche & stamps her mark
Being an achiever doesn’t necessarily need one to be somewhat unapproachably recondite and stops being a woman. On the 16th day of June, 1944, a future humanitarian leader who could…
Reflux heartburns
What is Reflux Heartburns? Reflux Heartburns is a milder stage of Reflux Esophagitis, which is an inflammatory condition where Hydrocholoric Acid, normally produced by the stomach to aid in the…
Zipping Bohol on a bike
Bohol is a piece of art. Take its roads. To the left, you will see the blue skies and the green trees wonderfully blended; to the right, the heavens and…
October to Remember
It was a month of passion, erudition, pastimes but mostly politics and government at every turn both here and across our country: in a trove of bemused reflection, of follies,…
November: A month of remembrance
WE don’t like to talk about death, especially one’s death. We try to ignore it because it brings us to the hard reality of the end of life. But we…
Geo Ed Rebucas catapults to stardom via his vocal divergence
Cebu City’s SM Cinema 1 curtains rolled up and the lights went off to herald Pilipinas Got Talent (PGT) Season 3’s regional audition that sunny Wednesday, May 25, 2011. It…
How clean is our drinking water?
We are what we eat. And we are also what we drink. Our health and longevity are both maximize by our healthy lifestyle choices and discipline. In this day and…
How do we spell ‘Halloween’ in the Philippines?
Zombies, draculas, witches. It’s that time of the year again! Halloween, that is. In the Philippines, however, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are spelled differently, i.e. U-N-D-A-S! U-nite…
Filipino designers preview collections during LA Fashion Week
LOS ANGELES—Three Filipino designers debuted their Spring/Summer 2015 collections on Oct. 13 at the California Market Center in Downtown. Hosted by the International Fashion Tour and the ABS-CBN Foundation, the…
On rising early
I LOVE to rise up early in the morning like at four or at five o’clock. It’s quiet and serene; most people are still asleep. It’s the best time to…
Once upon a time in newspapering
THE fall season always brings something new that will astonish us. Let the leaves fall, leaves leave, fall falls. But perhaps ushering the season comes with the promise of new…
Anna Leah Javier, the reluctant star shines in seclusion
Social analysts hypothesized the movies to be an art form imitating life but in most cases it seems that life’s mortal realities and its evanescent complexities make it the other…
Pasalubongs you might want to take home
Our fellow Filipinos may be enjoying their stay outside the Philippines; but perhaps they get homesick once in a while. If you manage to visit our country, then you might…