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                    [Title] => Erap  wants to attend Mike Velarde’s birthday
                    [Summary] => Detained President Joseph Estrada asked the Sandiganbayan yesterday to grant him a furlough on Aug. 20 to undergo a medical checkup at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan and also to attend the birthday Mass of El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde.


Jay Flaminiano, a member of the defense team, said Estrada was "invited" by Bro. Mike to attend the religious group’s regular Saturday Mass at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park where the birthday of Velarde and El Shaddai’s anniversary will be celebrated.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 268365 [Title] => Erap rushed to hospital [Summary] => Suffering from pneumonia, deposed President Joseph Estrada was airlifted to the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan shortly before noon yesterday from his sprawling 15-hectare estate in Tanay, Rizal.

"He has had fever the past three days. The fever has not gone away so the family and his doctor have decided to bring him to a hospital," said Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, his eldest son.

Former journalist Ferdie Ramos, one of the elder Estrada’s media handlers, confirmed that pneumonia has affected "one-fourth" of the 67-year-old former actor’s lungs. [DatePublished] => 2005-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192444 [Title] => Palace on VAT: We only implement the law [Summary] => The movie and entertainment community cannot expect any help from Malacañang regarding their protest to the implementation of the 10 percent value-added tax (VAT), Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said yesterday.

Bunye pointed out the VAT law has been in effect since 1994 but its implementation on members of the entertainment industry and professionals has been repeatedly deferred because of protests.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173788 [Title] => Doctors claim malpractice law bad for health [Summary] => Passage of the proposed medical malpractice bill would only encourage quack medicine in the country, the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) warned yesterday.

The physicians also said any malpractice law would accelerate health care cost and undermine patient-doctor relationship.

The PCP, the umbrella of the country’s organizations of specialists in internal medicine, in a manifesto said House Bill 4955 or the malpractice bill maligns and compromises the "art of healing" and would criminalize doctors’ blunders to the level of a hardened criminal. [DatePublished] => 2002-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 131584 [Title] => COPD Foundation to fight pulmonary disease [Summary] => In the Philippines, for every 1,000 people around 500 are males; half of these males smoke. And within this group, around 16 suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Sixteen out of every thousand may seem a small number, but computed from the country’s population, this means a staggering 1.28 million Filipino males are suffering from COPD. In 20 years, COPD is projected to be one of the top diseases in developing countries like the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1283965 [AuthorName] => Dr. Daniel Tan [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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