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                    [Title] => 'DiabetEASE' celebrates 5th year
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The DiabetEASE magazine has been a source of information on diabetes for five years, and to celebrate its fifth anniversary, it is conducting an event dubbed “The Sweeter Escape” at the Market! Market! Activity Center on Nov. 15-16.

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Otsuka Philippines Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OPPI), together with the Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation (ISDF) and the Philippine Society of Vascular Medicine (PSVM)...

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Certain illnesses, they say are hereditary.

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MANILA, Philippines – In 1957, a 28-year-old internal medicine specialist named Dr. Ricardo Fernando warned against a looming diabetes mellitus epidemic in the country. His warning was dismissed by skeptical health experts and ignored by a complacent Filipino populace.

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The highly anticipated lecture is annually done to honor Dr. Ricardo Fernando, acknowledged as one of the pillars in the field of diabetology in the Philippines.
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The building will be inaugurated on Oct. 22. Part of the program is a motorcade from EDSA Shangri-La Hotel and will end in Marikina City prior to the building launch.
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"A public doctor’s salary is not much different from an ordinary employee. Even those in private practice don’t earn as much, which is why many potentially good doctors opt to study nursing just to go abroad," he says.
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Although only jokingly said, this statement of Dr. Ricardo Fernando, founder of the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Medical Center’s Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation Inc. (ISDFI), is nonetheless an adequate perception of the ever-changing standards used to diagnose, manage and prevent one of the most debilitating diseases in the country today – diabetes.
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Examine your belly. If your waistline measures a bulging 40 inches or more in men and more than 35 inches in women, there is a big probability that you may have Syndrome X.

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program in the US, Syndrome X is the clustering of any three of the following risk factors: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, low HDL-cholesterol which is the good cholesterol, high triglycerides, and abdominal obesity.
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Metabolic syndrome is now a well-recognized problem associated with an increased cardiovascular mortality. And lifestyle, especially dietary indiscretion, may have a lot to do with it. In recent data from the National Health Survey, 14-20 percent of Filipinos above 20 years old have metabolic syndrome.
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DR. RICARDO FERNANDO
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                    [Title] => 'DiabetEASE' celebrates 5th year
                    [Summary] => 

The DiabetEASE magazine has been a source of information on diabetes for five years, and to celebrate its fifth anniversary, it is conducting an event dubbed “The Sweeter Escape” at the Market! Market! Activity Center on Nov. 15-16.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 599400 [Title] => Hundreds take part in PAD Awareness Day [Summary] =>

Otsuka Philippines Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OPPI), together with the Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation (ISDF) and the Philippine Society of Vascular Medicine (PSVM)...

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478537 [Title] => Inheriting the stethoscope [Summary] =>

Certain illnesses, they say are hereditary.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212384 [AuthorName] => Carina Roncesvalles [SectionName] => Supplements [SectionUrl] => supplements [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478226 [Title] => Pinoy doc's fight vs diabetes on via pioneering institute [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines – In 1957, a 28-year-old internal medicine specialist named Dr. Ricardo Fernando warned against a looming diabetes mellitus epidemic in the country. His warning was dismissed by skeptical health experts and ignored by a complacent Filipino populace.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 366633 [Title] => Diabetes linked with protein ‘marker’ in blood [Summary] => Prof. Paresh Dandona, director of Diabetes-endocrinology Center of Buffalo, New York and one of the world’s leading experts in the treatment of diabetes and vascular disease, served as the 8th Ricardo Fernando Professorial Lecturer at EDSA Shangri-La Hotel recently.

The highly anticipated lecture is annually done to honor Dr. Ricardo Fernando, acknowledged as one of the pillars in the field of diabetology in the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 363815 [Title] => New home for diabetes institute in Marikina [Summary] => After years of residing at the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay (UERM) Hospital, the Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation Inc. (ISDFI) will now have its own home in Marikina City.

The building will be inaugurated on Oct. 22. Part of the program is a motorcade from EDSA Shangri-La Hotel and will end in Marikina City prior to the building launch.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 312282 [Title] => Pharmaceutical companies move to stop ‘brain drain’ [Summary] => "Being a doctor is hard today," says cardiologist Dr. Marcelito Durante, a former president of the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP), the country’s premier association of internal medicine specialists.

"A public doctor’s salary is not much different from an ordinary employee. Even those in private practice don’t earn as much, which is why many potentially good doctors opt to study nursing just to go abroad," he says.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288643 [Title] => Pfizer provides research grant to UERMMC diabetes institute [Summary] => "After years and years of study, if you ask me what diabetes is, I will tell you, ‘I do not know!’"

Although only jokingly said, this statement of Dr. Ricardo Fernando, founder of the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Medical Center’s Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation Inc. (ISDFI), is nonetheless an adequate perception of the ever-changing standards used to diagnose, manage and prevent one of the most debilitating diseases in the country today – diabetes.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255129 [Title] => A bulging waistline: An indicator of ‘Syndrome X’ [Summary] => Look at yourself in the mirror? What do you have? Curves in the right places or bulges that you have to shed?

Examine your belly. If your waistline measures a bulging 40 inches or more in men and more than 35 inches in women, there is a big probability that you may have Syndrome X.

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program in the US, Syndrome X is the clustering of any three of the following risk factors: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, low HDL-cholesterol which is the good cholesterol, high triglycerides, and abdominal obesity.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240419 [Title] => Metabolic syndrome: Don’t eat to your heart’s discontent [Summary] => We generally love to eat to our heart’s content. We rarely give it a thought that sometimes we eat to our heart’s discontent. Even worse, sometimes we eat our way to the grave.

Metabolic syndrome is now a well-recognized problem associated with an increased cardiovascular mortality. And lifestyle, especially dietary indiscretion, may have a lot to do with it. In recent data from the National Health Survey, 14-20 percent of Filipinos above 20 years old have metabolic syndrome.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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