The GLOBOCAN 2024 data published by IARC in July 2026 confirms prostate cancer has climbed to the second most common cancer in Filipino men, with 9,195 new cases in 2024. The Philippines is one of only nine countries globally where prostate cancer mortality is still increasing. A PSA blood test changes the outcome entirely.
The Philippines is the most sleep-deprived country in Southeast Asia and fourth in the world. More than half of all Filipinos are not meeting the seven-hour minimum that medical science consistently links to healthy cardiovascular, metabolic, and cognitive function. The health toll is being counted in rising hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease rates.
Chronic kidney disease is typically associated with diabetes and hypertension in older adults. But a distinct form of CKD, driven by occupational heat stress and dehydration, is striking young, otherwise healthy outdoor workers in tropical countries worldwide. With millions of Filipinos working in high-heat conditions and temperatures rising, the Philippines may be facing this
Filipino Women Are Being Diagnosed With Cervical Cancer Too Late. HPV Vaccination Can Change That. | APMARGIN Women’s Health Filipino Women Are Being Diagnosed With Cervical Cancer Too Late. HPV Vaccination Can Change That. Every day in the Philippines, approximately 9 Filipino women die of cervical cancer. Every year, 7,829 are newly diagnosed, according to […]
The Philippines recorded 50,727 dengue cases in the first five months of 2026, a 56 percent decline from the same period last year. That is good news. But forecasting models project over 435,000 cases for the full year, the rainy season has arrived, and the climate-driven shift that pushed dengue into January and February has not reversed.
The Philippines Has a Silent Diabetes Epidemic. Half of Those Who Have It Don’t Know. | APMARGIN Chronic Disease The Philippines Has a Silent Diabetes Epidemic. Half of Those Who Have It Don’t Know. Type 2 diabetes does not always announce itself. For many people, the first sign is not a symptom at all. It […]
Researchers have detected microplastics in 69 percent of follicular fluid samples and 55 percent of semen samples from patients undergoing fertility evaluation. The detection is confirmed. What it means for human fertility is still being established.
Heat does not announce itself the way other disasters do. Yet globally it now kills more people every year than almost any other climate hazard, and the Philippines has spent 2026 recording some of its most dangerous heat index readings on record.
For a decade, child stunting in the Philippines was declining. The 2025 FNRI survey reversed that trend for the first time since 2015. One in four Filipino children under five is now stunted, and the economic cost of inaction is 496 billion pesos a year.
The Philippines trains some of the world's most sought-after nurses, then watches them leave. Burnout, chronic understaffing, and a salary gap of up to 20 times what the same nurse earns abroad are driving a shortage that no school expansion alone can fix.
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