Related Articles at SunStar Online and Newspaper Jul-Dec 2009

Dec 30 Wisdom Does Matter in Old Age (posted 12/29/09)
Dec 23 Patience and Folly (posted 12/22/09) [used in---Philippine News Balita (newslink)]
Dec 16 Promiscuous Misery (posted 12/15/09)
Dec 9 Cure Beneath the Seas (posted 12/8/09)
Dec 2 Blinded By Passion (posted 12/1/09)
Nov 25 A Thirst for Sleep (posted 11/24/09)
Nov 18 Teaching Nutrition Effectively (posted 11/17/09)
Nov 11 In a Swoosh of Fate (posted 11/10/09)
Nov 4 Can Innocence Be Bliss? (ePaper only)
Oct 28 Knowing Without Inference
Oct 21 A Facet of Suicide (posted 10/20/09)
Oct 14 Managing Your Hypertension (posted 10/13/09)
Oct 7 A Medical View of Homosexuality (posted 10/6/09)
Sep 30 Survivors of Genetic Mess (posted 9/29/09)
Sep 23 Sweet, Sweet Breath (posted 9/22/09)
Sep 9 A Touch of Soluble Fibers [used in---Toilet Junkie; IBS Help and Support Group]
Sep 2 The Bomb Ticking at Home
Aug 26 In the Eyes of Children
Aug 19 Downside of online leisures
Aug 12 Death on Misprint [used in--Kabalita (newslink)]
Aug 5 Born to be Thin
Jul 29 A Novel Swine Flu
Jul 22 Taking Off the Peer Pressure
Jul 15 Getting Irresistible
Jul 1 Deadly Medicine

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POST-PRESS: Narcissistic Disorder, Ground for Annulment

On 20 May 2011 (Friday), the First Division of the Philippine Court of Appeals dismissed the plea that Julie Balarbar, wife of 15 years of House Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III, filed questioning the November 25, 2010 decision of the Makati Regional Court declaring the marriage null and void on the ground that Balarbar had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Pyschiatric evaluation show a diagnosis of NPD with anti-social features, from her involvement in a shoplifting incident, her closeness to and trips abroad with her male students, and a kissing incident with a co-professor. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder Fourth Edition (DSM IV-TR) enumerated nine indicators of NPD, with only five of them needed for the diagnosis. It is not clear however which indicators have been found in the case of the Tañada annulment case. The Archdiocese of Manila also declared their canonical marriage void ab initio (void from the start) due to "gra...

Death By Heat Stroke in the Philippines

The hotter and earlier-onset El Niño phenomenon this year 2010 poses a threat to the Filipino lives. How much life it took? See incidence that reached the news. UPDATE On 19 May 2010, candidate army soldier Ericson Pascua (22) came on his first day of training in Isabela when he collapsed after a series of strenous exercise. Although rushed to the hospital immediately, he died shortly afterwards (around 11 a.m.) due to heat stroke. That day Isabela peaked at 38.2 degrees Celsius. Sixteen others were rushed to the hospital for dehydration and heat exhaustion. (Check report ) On 28 April 2010, a veteran Cavite cop, PO3 Florencio Gamana Alivio (48), succumbed to cardiac arrest as a result to heatstroke while having tae bo with his colleagues at the Cavite Police Provincial Office (CPPO) grounds in Camp General Pantaleon. He reached the Imus MEdical Center but pronounced dead at 5:15 PM. (Check report ) In Batangas, former governor Amando Sanchez (57)di...

Omicron Updates

(Source: Penzit, 2015) UNITED KINGDOM As of 29 December 2021, the UK Health Security Agency reported the current status of its Omicron cases under emergency care. The lowest emergency admission rate is among those who received one dose of vaccine up to 21 days before specimen date: 0.1%. However, the overall rate for vaccinated individuals was very high at 72.5%. The unvaccinated emergency admission rate was 25.3%. (Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern and Variants under Investigation in England , 31 December 2021, page 8)

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