Last week, more than 500 residents of a town in Cebu were believed to be affected by typhoid fever with four deaths already reported as of March 4. Typhoid fever is caused by ingestion of water or food contaminated by bacteria called Salmonella typhi found in the feces of infected persons or carriers. Manifestations It… [Continue Reading]

Equally important as the doctors serving individual patients as internists, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists and surgeons are the doctors serving in the communities as general practitioners, municipal health officers, city health officers and the like who have public health in mind. Preventive and Community Medicine training during medical school years comes in handy especially when a doctor… [Continue Reading]