Breakthroughs Today

Breakthroughs , the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper column which brings breaking news in health research every Wednesday, took its existence in the local community of Cebu in the month of May some five years ago today. It started from a dream of bringing the hard technical language of medical research to the common people who considered technical terms in medical science and technology as archaic as well as strange and often unfathomable even while using the ordinary English dictionary. Our fifth year testifies that goal may have been achieved through the years, and its readers may have obtained some form of benefits after reading each article each week since then. And yet any child cannot claim existence without the mother who gave birth to it. And for Breakthroughs , no other mother can rightly assume that matriarchal honor than my retired Live section editor, Pura Kintanar, whose perception may have seen ahead of time the years that Breakthroughs will be serving the local community of Ceb

26 May 2010 The Long Hours Through Midlife 19 May 2010 Selenium Toenail Effect 12 May 2010 The Frailty of Age 5 May 2010 Uric Prelude to Obesity

31 March 2010 Memories That Bind (posted: 03/30/2010) 24 March 2010 Over-Commitment and Burnout (posted: 03/23/2010) 17 March 2010 Beauty and the Funny Bone (posted: 03/16/2010) 10 March 2010 The Internet 'Divide' and Age (posted: 03/09/2010) 3 Mar 2010 A Season of Heat (posted: 03/02/2010)

24 Feb 2010 Richer Cebuana, Fatter Cebuana (posted 2/23/10) 17 Feb 2010 War of Wuji and Yang (posted 2/16/10) 10 Feb 2010   Unseen Among the Seeing (posted 2/9/10) 3 Feb 2010    Teach Right, Time Right (Cebu newspaper only)

Breakthroughs 2009 June 24 Turning Back the Weight Dial June 17 Anticipating Swine Flu War June 10 Best Places to Live Up to 100 Years June 3 Scales of Pandemia May 27 Swine Flu Facts May 20 Living 100 Years Anywhere Article users-- Cebu Informer (newslink); The Global Filipino (newslink) May 13 The Widow-Maker May 5 Disease of Passion April 29 The Curse of Polygamy April 23 A Way of Ending April 15 The Buzz Cut Article users-- Hugh Pages (newslink); Aywoh BizCentral ; April 8 Threats to a Healthy Faith Article users-- Hello Davenport, Local Davenport Crime News ; Hugh Pages (newslink) April 1 Celebrating Truths and Pranks Article users-- Spas Listings, Garden of Eden News sidebar ; Wow Cebu, Sunstar News Feeds ; March 25 The Function of Spiritual Unity Article users-- The Global Filipino ; Spiritual Healing ; March 18 Looking for Happiness March 11 Taming the Accursed Breath March 4 The Art of Movement February 25 Female Circumcision Article users-- Bellwave,

Breakthroughs 2008 December 30 Aging Can Be Skin-Deep, Too December 24 The Pointsettia's Sinister Side Article Users-- TARBAHO SA CEBU: Link only December 16 No Stroke Guard in Anti-Ox December 10 Saying It Alluringly Clear December 2 Female Sexual Satisfaction Article Users-- SUGBO ONLINE: Female Sexual Satisfaction November 26 Getting High on Mistakes November 11 Findings on Love, Marriage Article Users-- CWANSWERS, SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: Link only October 28 Waving the Flirting Wand October 22 Gestures of Courtship October 15 The One that Got Away October 8 Curse of the Fat Gene October 1 Out of the Blue September 24 Morbid Jealousy Article Users-- ICONOCAST: Boyfriend Runs Into Jealousy ( Translated into Korean ) September 17 Awkward Positions August 27 Sweetening Pain August 6 Wintry Skin Strips July 30 Territorial Divergence July 23 Sound Strategy for Cancer July 9 Irritable Grace June 25 Survivors of Hiroshima Article Users-- FLOWER DELIVERY: Survivors of Hiroshima (Tr