After two years of online learning, the University of the Philippines (UP) is gradually opening its doors for face-to-face (F2F) classes again. At the same time, the university intends to keep UP students healthy and protected against the threat of COVID-19. With that, vaccination and having medical insurance are required of UP students when they […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made getting treatment for oral cancer more challenging, especially for the poor. The case of a farmer with oral cancer will be the focus of the upcoming UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar, scheduled on Friday, December 18, at 12:00 noon.
Updates on the COVID-19 vaccination will be the focus of a UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar on December 11, Friday at 12:00 noon.
The 29th installment of the UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar series will be the very first Virtual National Book Launch of an ebook on pandemic surgery, set to be held on November 6, Friday, at 12:00 noon.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat not just to people’s physical health, but perhaps more insidiously, to their mental, emotional and psychological health as well. What the impacts of the pandemic are on our psychosocial well-being and how we can help one another cope will be the subject of the 14th installment in the UP Webinar Series “STOP COVID DEATHS: Clinical Management Updates”, which is scheduled on July 24, Friday, at 12 n.n.
On July 2, The Washington Post published an alarming headline: “This coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why.” Scientists have found a specific change occurring in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in outbreaks in Europe and the US. The mutation is known as D614G after the switch in one of […]
Anesthesiologists are among the medical workers who serve at the frontlines in the battle against the viral pandemic. As such, they face health risks due to their exposure and close proximity to COVID-19-positive patients in enclosed spaces. How then can these medical frontliners keep themselves safe while taking care of their patients? Find out in the upcoming webinar in the UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” series on July 10, 12nn.
Dr. Chito Permejo, a cardiology intensivist at the Philippine Heart Center, said the off-label use of pharmacologic therapies to treat COVID-19 in patients with cardiac issues must be done with caution. He discussed this and many more in “COVID-19 and the Heart”, the eighth episode of UP’s STOP COVID DEATHS webinar series streamed on June 12.
For many patients who survive severe COVID-19, rehabilitation is the next stage of the fight. The next installment in the UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar series will focus on the needs of patients recovering from severe COVID-19, with Dr. Celso F. Bate of The Medical City and VRP Medical Center as speaker.
It is no surprise that COVID-19 can be bad for the heart. The impact of COVID-19 on patients with heart disease and hypertension is the focus of the eighth webinar in the UP “Stop COVID Deaths: Clinical Management Updates” series, to be held on June 12, Friday, at 12 n.n.