Heart Disease Prevention Starts Early: What Young Adults Should Know
For Paul Quetua, MD, a Cardiologist at Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed), the troubling trend these days is not just that there are more Filipinos diagnosed with hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, cancer, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that impact the heart. Rather, it is that many of these Filipinos are in their 30s […]
Case 10 : ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY MEANS
Case Study 8 : PERSONALIZING HEALTH CARE Challenges A 15-year old male is admitted with the chief complaint of pain associated with liver cancer. The doctors explain to the patient’s family that since the malignancy already sits at a very advanced stage, no real hope for recovery exists, and that any aggressive treatment (e.g., radiation) […]
