The best interpreter of Scripture is Scripture itself.

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. paid a total of P137.6 billion in benefit claims to more than 12,000 accredited health care facilities nationwide this year.

A higher Philippine Health Insurance benefit package may soon be provided to kidney transplant patients as the PhilHealth benefits committee, led by Health Secretary Ted Herbosa, met Wednesday to discuss ways of improving this service.

Five pieces of legislation were approved on third and final reading on Tuesday by lawmakers in the plenary session at the House of Representatives, among them a bill that allows employment for senior citizens and the Free Transportation of Relief Goods Act.

An overseas Filipino worker in the Middle East who bought a lotto ticket while on vacation in the Philippines was the sole winner of a P37.46-million jackpot of the Super Lotto 6/49 on Oct. 20.

The protracted campaign to set Mary Jane Veloso free is not yet complete, her long-time advocates and lawyers said, as they called for her clemency hours after the president's announcement of her impending return to the Philippines from Indonesia.