The Newborn Screening Study Group first introduced newborn screening in the Philippines in 1996. This group of pediatricians and obstetricians from 24 hospitals in the metropolitan Manila area developed a newborn screening program: (1) to establish the incidence of six metabolic conditions--congenital hypothyroidism, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, galactosemia, phenylketonuria, homocystinuria ...

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Regional development policy and practice took significant transformations over the last five decades. Its relevance has been challenged in recent years by the new economic geography that emerged in view of globalization and as most nations veer towards a more democratic and decentralized approach to plan and implement their various development activities. Given these advances, the emergence of ...

Open landfill dumping areas for municipal wastes in Asian developing countries have recently received particular attention with regard to environmental pollution problems. Because of the uncontrolled burning of solid wastes, elevated contamination by various toxic chemicals including dioxins and related compounds in these dumping sites has been anticipated. In this study, concentrations of poly...

With the increasing popularity of Twitter as both a social media platform and data source for companies, decision makers, advertisers, even researchers alike, have been so massive that manual labeling is no longer feasible. This research uses semi-supervised approach to sentiment analysis English Tagalog tweets using base classifier. In this study involving Philippines, where played central rol...

The Philippines is one of the world's most heavily populated countries. Even though democracy was restored in 1986 after years of occupation and dictatorship, a high level of poverty still exists and malnutrition and communicable diseases continue to be the main cause of morbidity. For almost 50 years people with mental disorders have been treated in a mental hospital setting. The National Ment...

teristics of norovirus outbreaks during a non-epidemic season. An automated , broad-based, near real-time public health surveillance system using presentations to hospital emergency departments al. Outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis on cruise ships and on land: identifi cation of a predominant circulating strain of noro-virus—United States, 2002. Emergence of a new noro-virus genotype II.4 vari...

Understanding farmers’ perception is important in the development of sustainable and cost-effective integrated pest management strategies. Hence, farmers’ perception on rice insect pests and pesticide use was evaluated by selected 112 farmers composed of 77% males and 23% females, over the rice growing areas of North Cotabato, Central Mindanao, Philippines. 62% of farmers that were interviewed ...

Abstract In the Philippines and other developing countries, the skin whitening industry is prolific and expanding among native populations. However, this desire for white skin has dire health repercussions, both physical and psychological. Many researchers in the field of Filipino-American psychology attribute this desire for whiter skin to the American colonial rule of the Philippines, which b...