Calls to extend the validity of IDs of persons with disability (PWD) reveal more about their struggles while living in the Philippines. The real question is: Are PWDs the real priority here?

Cholera claims 21,000 to 143,000 lives each year, as estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the wake of a pandemic and growing social inequity, unprecedented cholera outbreaks in different parts of the world beg the question: Is there still love in the time of cholera and COVID-19?

Elon Musk buying Twitter has brought about a wave of changes to the app over the past two weeks. One of the biggest being the monetization of its verification feature. This could potentially chase off some of Twitter’s most important users in the ongoing pandemic: scientists and health experts.

A whole slew of new Omicron subvariants has popped up from right under our noses, literally and figuratively. As they drive new surges around the world, it’s also worth asking: Do people still care if they COVID?

As that one Whitney Houston song goes: The children are our future. Teach them well and try not to poison them with any more toxins, if possible. With scientists discovering microplastics in human breast milk for the first time, should we now put a stop to breastfeeding?

Has the pandemic changed us for better or for worse? Recent findings point to the latter.

Healthcare and sanitation access struggles under the weight of multiple natural disasters like Typhoon Karding and Hurricane Ian.

Channeling the grief over losing rapper Coolio into understanding how to prevent more premature deaths from heart attacks.

Emojis are now being used to bypass censors and spread misinformation on COVID-19.

As President Marcos Jr. declares that masks are now voluntary outdoors, experts declare what this could entail for our fragile healthcare system and just why comparison is the thief of joy.

Juul is in trouble for the nth time in seven years—both in a “I’m confiscating your vape” way and “you’re paying $440 million in legal fees” way.

Face-to-face classes and work have brought us face-to-face with an old public health enemy: dengue. Outbreaks in several parts of the Philippines bring to light a few things we might have forgotten and learned during the pandemic.

Breaking news is breaking everyone’s health. Would you rather be in the know or have your mental and physical state glow?

Last Friday, the World Health Organization renamed the monkeypox subvariants to Clade one (I) and Clade two (II). This week, the search continues for a new name for “monkeypox.”

The US is set to get updated BA.4 and BA.5-targeted boosters next month. Will this finally be the end of COVID-19?

As schools and daycares reopen, experts express new concerns over monkeypox spreading among children.

It’s official—monkeypox has entered the building (that building being the Philippines). As if fighting two pandemics wasn’t enough, we now learn we have to fight against a third one too: misinformation.

Here’s the lowdown on monkeypox, two months into the outbreak.

The former Philippine vice president’s famed, volunteer-run program Bayanihan e-Konsulta is back. It’s a good sign that normal people out there still care, but does it mean the same for the current state of our country’s healthcare system?

A random guy on Twitter named the new COVID-19 variant at around the same time NASA released the deepest infrared image of the Universe, so here we are.