News & Updates

After the success of our previous online scientific seminar entitled Riding the Wave, Procter & Gamble Health in alliance with the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians and the Philippine Pharmacists Association were excited to present the next installment in the series, Breaking the Wave.

Held virtually from April 28 – 29, 2022, this edition tackled key factors in the transition from pandemic to recovery including neuropathy, nutritional supplements, and immunity.

The speakers at this event were Prof. Rayaz Malik, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College (Qatar); Dr. Arabinda Mukherjee, Professor of Neurology at the Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences (Calcutta); Dr. Aimee Andag-Silva, Chief of the Section of Endocrinology at the De La Salle University Medical Center College of Medicine; Dr. Maria Carmen Quevedo, Associate Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Memorial Medical Center; Dr. Antonio H. Chua, Pediatric Otorhinolaryngologist at St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City; and Dr. Keith Romeo Aguilera, Center Head of the Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center at St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City. The event’s moderators were Dr. Lynne Marcia Bautista, a fellow of the Philippine Association of Family Physicians; Mr. Mark Ryan Langit, professor at the Saint Louis University College of Pharmacy; and Dr. Digna Almeida, Senior Medical & Technical Affairs Manager of P&G Health. 

Hospital readmission occurs infrequently after holmium enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP), a new study has found. Risk factors for readmission include bleeding and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score.

Vegetarian women are more likely to experience hip fracture compared to regular meat-eaters, results from the UK Women’s Cohort Study have shown.

Targeted sequencing of plasma Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA at 6–8 weeks after radiotherapy (RT) enhances risk stratification of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) compared with conventional quantitative PCR (qPCR), researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have shown.