KABACAN, North Cotabato - A new PHP17-million district jail facility that could accommodate 150 inmates from four adjoining towns has been opened here, the provincial government announced Thursday.... Read full article
MANILA – As part of its overall response to Typhoon Odette, the United States government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional PHP17.5 million (USD350,000) to support ecosystem and community recovery... Read full article
MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday assured the public that there is no ongoing shortage of paracetamol, used to treat fever and mild to moderate pain.... Read full article
MANILA – The presidential yacht BRP Ang Pangulo that has been transformed into a floating hospital, has served patients from isolated areas in the Dinagat Islands, one of the provinces devastated by Typhoon Odette in December.... Read full article
MANILA – Pushing an incentivized vaccination program "is a good strategy" to encourage more people to avail of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 medical adviser, Dr. Ted Herbosa, said Wednesd... Read full article
The United States FDA amended on Thursday the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the bivalent Covid-19 vaccines of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to include use in children down to six months old.... Read full article
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a follow-up prosecution after busting sellers of fake medicines and fly-by-night drug stores.... Read full article
LEGAZPI CITY – The Albay Provincial Health Office (PHO) is closely monitoring the 127 hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) cases recorded to date, mostly among young residents in the province.... Read full article
MANILA – The French government has conferred to outgoing Tourism secretary and now Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) deputy governor Bernadette Romulo-Puyat an agricultural merit award in recognition of her decades-long support to the sector and comm... Read full article
MANILA – Parts of the country will continue to experience heavy rains due to Severe Tropical Storm Maring (international name Kompasu) and the enhanced habagat or southwest monsoon, the weather bureau said Tuesday.... Read full article
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