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One of the major concerns of ordinary law-abiding Filipino citizens nowadays is being physically in good health without any major diseases. It is a rule of thumb now that one would rather be in perfect health than be exceedingly rich but in the poorest of health conditions, or worse, living with a terminal illness. Despite the fact that 26.3% of Filipinos are still living below the poverty line today, the Philippines still is blessed with some of the best health and medical facilities in this corner of the world. Our medical doctors are already known here and abroad to...

Will you buy a new drug/treatment that costs US $475,000 with potentially fatal side effects? Yet that is what The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved not more than 3 months ago when they gave the go-signal to pharmaceutical drug giant Novartis to market Kymriah, the new gene-altering therapy drug for leukemia. Kymriah is the first-ever treatment drug to genetically change a cancer patient’s genes to fight cancer. This kind of treatment will allegedly start a new revolutionary trend in cancer treatment for the coming years. This new therapy technically called “gene therapy”, is part of the growing study...