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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Deadly X-Gene Mutants

A RECENT study on macrophages (i.e. defensive cells in our body that engulf threatening substances inside our body) introduced me to a lethal, genetic disease that targets the male population. This disease is called Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), named after the French neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, who described it in 1861. While it has an incidence of one in 3,500 newborn males, health experts consider this as the most common lethal disease of childhood around the world. Mutation in the male (X) chromosome [dystrophin gene, locus Xp21] causes a rapid degeneration of the muscles, leading into an eventual loss of walking ability and then death. While females do not exhibit symptoms, they can be carriers of these defective genes, especially if the father had this condition or the mother is also a carrier. Symptoms usually appear before age five; at times visible in early infancy. These symptoms involve... ( Read more .) This article appears in Sun-Star Ce...

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...

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