Vesagas: Earth Hour: The AYM way
THE Adela Youth Movement (AYM) of Adela Subdivision in Camaman-an, Cagayan de Oro City, in their own creative ways, has simultaneously joined the annual nationwide observance of the Earth Hour last Saturday night.
Vesagas: My first year at Graduate School
TWO years ago, I have begun entertaining the thoughts of earning a graduate degree not just for career advancement but also to expose and immerse myself to academic and applied researches that could potentially add depth and breadth to the things that I write in my regular columns and by using...
Vesagas: Suicide: How sociologists view it (Conclusion)
THIS column featured last week the first two of the four types of suicides as theorized by the late Emile Durkheim, a 19th century French Sociologist, in an attempt to explain suicide in general and pinpoint the plausible reasons for the three accounts of alleged suicide among Tropical Storm...
Vesagas: Suicide: How sociologists view it (First of two parts)
NOT one, not two but three accounts of alleged suicide have scourged Cagayan de Oro as among the most depressing aftermath of Sendong.
Despite the advancement in technology, medicine and social sciences, suicide or the act of taking one’s own life remains a topic not fully understood by...
Vesagas: Alcohol consumption: Benefits, risks to health
WITH the exemption of children’s birthday party, alcoholic beverages will always be visible in almost any occasion or celebration. In parties that we are so fond of attending, whether to celebrate one’s birthday, thanksgiving for hurdling the licensure exams, a midnight family dinner to welcome...
Heart diseases: 10 things you need to know to prevent it
FEBRUARY is traditionally the month of hearts, yet unfortunately, not so many are aware of the magnitude of the factors that cause heart diseases.
Medical science literature explains that cardiovascular diseases (CVD) or diseases of the heart and its accompanying blood vessels such as the...
Vesagas: The story of a company that CARES
EXPERIENCES tell that after “Sendong” ruthlessly ravaged Northern Mindanao and some parts of southern Visayas like a Grinch on a Christmas week that displaced thousands of families, stories of heroism flourished among the survivors and witnesses of the tragedy.
The importance of a ‘fishy’ diet
BELIEVE it or not, there are people who do not like to eat fish in as much as there are people who love them. Some reason they fear of catching the fish’s bone in their throat while others simply do not like the “fishy” after-taste.
According to biologic studies, fish as well as other...
Vesagas: Understanding goiter
MEDICAL literatures share that goiter is a condition wherein there is an enlargement of the thyroid gland which is visible from the outside as a swelling of the front side of the neck.
Vesagas: Understanding diabetes
“PRE-DIABETES, also known as impaired glucose tolerance, is a reversible stage in the development of type 2 diabetes,” said Dr. Melissa Conrad Stoppler of MedicineNet.com.
Vesagas: Things to consider when taking Doxycycline to fight leptospirosis
AS THE number of leptospirosis cases in Cagayan de Oro City swelled to more than 200 and claimed at least eight lives after Sendong’s wrath ravaged the city, the Department of Health (DOH) in Northern Mindanao region last week declared an outbreak of the said disease in the city.
Vesagas: Public health experts advise healthful ways of house cleaning after flood
HEALTH risks remain a major concern after every natural disaster such as “Sendong”, said local and international public health authorities in a number of social networking sites.
Vesagas: Post traumatic stress disorder may go viral post-Sendong: experts warned
A WEEK after the so-called deadliest storm of the year in the Philippines, survivors of typhoon Sendong, which had claimed the lives of at least a thousand, have been experiencing the psychological trauma of reliving the petrifying details of the experience that may lead to post-traumatic stress...
Vesagas: Anecdotes of horror and hope post-disaster
“THE act of helping the homeless Sendong victims makes me feel more human” -- (Janille, 20 years old student volunteer)
LAST Thursday, the 15th of December, two national broadcast media stations gave a public advisory of an impending cyclone that would directly pass over the northern part...
The downside of formula-feeding
EXPERTS around the globe agree that breast milk is the best food for the baby for the first 12 months of his life.
However, there are cases wherein the mother is left with no option but to give up the womanly art of breastfeeding such as in cases of mothers who have cardiac or cardiac-...
The perils of cigarette smoking to pregnancy
THE research of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the US maintains in an online post through social networking sites that smoking during pregnancy causes a multitude of health problems for both the woman and her unborn baby such as complicated pregnancies, premature birth, low birth weight...
More health less hypertension during pregnancy
PREGNANCY-INDUCED hypertension (PIH) remains the second leading cause of maternal mortality in the Philippines from 1991 to 2006, according to the data culled from the Department of Health (DOH).
Vesagas: The importance of research to our daily lives
TO THE many, reading or hearing the word “research” carries the connotations of a rigorous and labor intensive academic activity in fulfillment of a school course requirement. Others may think of it as a cerebral activity heavily bombarded with complicated mathematical and scientific formulas by...
Vesagas: Anti-Epal Bill: A bureaucrat’s reminder of bureaucracy essentials
LAST week, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago openly disclosed via television interviews Senate Bill No. 1967 that prohibits the classic practice of alleged abusive political personalities of claiming credits from projects accomplished through public funds.
Vesagas: Demystifying superstitions, demonic encounters
A THIRD world country such as ours is heavily infested with superstitions. As a matter-of-fact, the mere sight of a black cat obstructing the path of our way is almost always approached with such a frightening omen of an impending misfortune.
Despite the contamination of Western Modernity...
Vesagas: The Good Samaritan deeds vs. the bureaucratic views
WHENEVER we see the traffic light red or the road sign “detour,” it is rather rational and mandating to stop the car we’re driving or take the safest turn, since those are the traffic rules to follow.
Vesagas: Reproductive health and risk behaviors in the eyes of the adolescents (last part)
TURNING into empirical studies while attempting to discover the contemporary adolescents’ prevailing perceptions and attitudes related to reproductive health (RH), this column has featured the sociological research of sociologists Dr. Magdalena C. Cabaraban and Dr. Teresa Sharon Linog for the...
Vesagas: RH and risk behaviors in the eyes of the adolescents (Second of three parts)
LAST week, this column featured the works of sociologists Dr. Magdalena C. Cabaraban and Dr. Teresa Sharon Linog, a doctor of medicine by profession, in their study’s attempt to unravel the adolescents’ awareness and knowledge of reproductive health (RH) to include the respondents’ prevailing...
Reproductive health and risk behaviors in the eyes of the adolescents (First of three parts)
REPRODUCTIVE Health, as defined by House Bill 4244, refers to a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes.
A paradigm shift
“WHAT’S your beat?” an editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer once asked me during a media event.
