If the trend continues, the number of deaths would increase to 10 million by the year 2020, 70 percent of which would be coming from countries like thePhilippines, the Health department said.
Smokinghas become one of the leading killers in the world ever since it was produced. It results in chronic diseases and in some cases even death of the individuals. Innocent people shouldn’t die because of it. According to various health reports published in medical journals‚ it has been...
Smoking while pregnant rate in Great Britain 2012 Smoking of cigarettes in the U.S. 2020 Number of cigarettes smoked by Japanese men 2017, by age New Zealand - brands of cigarettes smoked 2018 Singapore - brands of cigarettes smoked 2018 Philippines - brands of cigarettes smoked 2018 Hong Kong...
The relative prevalence of smoking by age and sex was used to adjust data that were reported for aggregate age groups or both sexes combined. More details are provided in the Supplement. Data Synthesis Prevalence In many cases, multiple sources for the same year implied different levels of ...
“The smoke is very thick, like a dark mushroom in the sky,” said reporter Gus Abelgas in a 1991 television broadcast on the ongoing volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. “It’s just like what we saw in Hiroshima.” ... ...
This was the message of pulmonology experts Tuesday as they revealed that lung cancer is now the number one cancer type in the Philippines. In 2010, the Philippine Cancer Society (PCS) estimated a total of 11,458 new lung cancer cases in both males and females while the estimated number of...
“Teen probed for throwing baby from window” can be seen in our papers every other week as we are faced with the ever-growing problem ofteenagepregnancy. In most reported cases‚ these hapless young women even attempt to abandon their new-borns in the most harrowing ways. Sexuality without...
(1992) The causal link between human papillomavirus and invasive cervical cancer: a population-based case-control study in Colombia and Spain. Int J Cancer 52: 743-749. Google Scholar Ngelangel C, Munoz N, Bosch FX, et al. (1998) Causes of cervical cancer in the Philippines: a case-...
For example, in 2019 the Philippine Tobacco Institute, which represents multipletobacco companies,filed two court caseschallenging the city government of Balanga in the Philippines. The city was hoping to introduce regulations which would prevent the legal sale of tobacco products to residents born on...
P1-S1.50 A decade of early syphilis in East and inner city London Background Following a rise in cases of early syphilis in the UK, a programme of national enhanced surveillance (ES) was commenced in 2001 by the Health Protection Agency with the aims of establishing case distribution and tre...