Jyote Amge, an Indian High School student in Central India, is currently the World’s shortest woman according to the Guinness World Records. She was measured, Friday, by a Guiness World Record commissioned representative as she turned 18, 24.7 inches. She got the record after being recognized as shorter by 2.76 inches compared to the height [...]

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I first tasted the Yakult drink when I was still studying in college. I just met a woman pulling a box and was selling Yakult drink in the terminal. I bought one, and yes… it’s addicting. So, I really like the taste of the Yakult drink. It has a balanced taste of sour and sweet [...]

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A four-seater (light Beechcraft) cargo plane crashed in a Better Living Subdivision in Paranaque – Philippines, 2:45 pm Saturday (local time), few minutes after taking off Manila Domestic Airport runway and setting off an elementary school into fire and burning the houses of more or less 100 people. The said plane is a twin-engine passenger [...]

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It was on Tuesday (October 11) when I finally realized that I had fever. But I already experienced dizziness on Sunday and Monday (October 9 and 10). I just disregarded it because I thought that it was just the effect of having worked the roofing of our house alone in the whole day. My fever [...]

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I read in the news today about the successful separation of the 11-month old Sudan-born twins joined at the heads in UK.

The twins are Rital and Ritag Gaboura. They were separated in August by the surgeons at the Great Ormond Street Hospital and the operation is quite successful and the two are in good health.

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I don’t know that tooth infection can actually kill until I read this news: Man Dies From Toothache, Couldn’t Afford Meds A 24-year-old Cincinnati father died from a tooth infection this week because he couldn’t afford his medication,… When his face started swelling and his head began to ache, Willis went to the emergency room, [...]

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Guttmacher Institute Argues The Inquirer published the argument of the Guttmacher Institute which clearly accused Dr. Raul Nidoy of distorting the evidence to support his personal opinion. The Guttmacher’s letter tries to correct the misuse of its findings by Dr. Nidoy on his letter to the Inquirer, including his opinion against the artificial contraceptives including [...]

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My wife and I brought our son, Carl Justine, to the Hinunangan Community Hospital last Monday, May 2, due to the amoeba infection. The medical technologist of the Hinunangan Rural Health Center found traces of Amoeba from CJ’s stool, and we were advised too by health workers in the center to admit CJ in a hospital for treatment and for the prevention of dehydration.

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In Bantayan island of Cebu, a janitor of the Bantayan District Hospital was performing a catheter insertion into the organ of a patient, as reported by the Sun-Star Cebu newspaper.

Astero Rivera, 68 a resident of Barangay Ticad in Bantayan went to the hospital last Tuesday for his failure to urinate for 3 days already. After the patient was examined by the hospital’s doctor, the janitor, Arturo Abello, was instructed by the doctor to insert the catheter to the patient’s organ. So Mr. Abello did the insertion.

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A visitor of this blog sent us an email asking our help to know if he’s really the father of his son to his wife. Here’s part of his email. It was written in Bisaya and I just translated it into English. Question Related to Knowing If the Son is Really the Son of a [...]

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