Medicine
By:
Totie Mesia
Date:
Friday, February 6th, 2009 
I hope Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile was correct when he said that Sen. Miriam D. Santiago needed an indefinite leave from her legislative work because of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS.) I don't know if what he meant coincided with what we know of the disease. 
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By:
Totie Mesia
Date:
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 
The 20 year old Brazilian beauty queen Mariana Bridi da Costa died of the effects of sepsis after weeks of fighting an overwhelming systemic infection caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a gram-negative bacteria.
By:
Totie Mesia
Date:
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 
Ten Leading Causes of Mortality Philippines, 2003
---------------------------------------Male-----Female-----Total--Rate^--Percent*
1. Heart Diseases----------------38,677---29,019-----67,696--83.5--17.1
By:
Totie Mesia
Date:
Monday, December 1st, 2008 
After a survey came out disclosing the frustration of primary care doctors who suffer in their job, the American College of Physicians (ACP) followed with a paper culled from more than 100 studies from the last 2 decades.
By:
Totie Mesia
Date:
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 
Before Pres. Barack Obama can assume office and work on his promised universal health care for Americans, primary care physicians in the United States are saying they are overworked. 
