The Medical City announced its landmark achievement of the first successful pediatric liver transplant surgery performed in the country by an all-Filipino team. The patient is three-year-old Catherine Erica Buenaventura, who was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease complicated by portal hypertension, or an increase in blood pressure in a system of veins within the stomach, […]
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Banana: The Healthiest Fruit (in Filipino)
PROBE, the acclaimed Filipino TV show by Ms. Che Che Lazaro, examines the health benefits of the banana. 10 Benefits Of Eating A Banana: By Dr. Willlie T. Ong 1.Eat a banana if you have heartburn. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemisty (February, 2001) attests to the anti-ulcer properties of the banana. Bananas act like a […]