It was a hectic but immensely enjoyable week for me. Following the ICIS meeting in Paris, I flew home to Singapore for an overnight stop before heading off to the Philippines, a nation comprising of more than 7000 islands. (The exact number of islands, I was told, depends on whether it is high tide or low tide!) Anyway, it was a great honour to be invited by the Philippines CT and MRI Society t...

Giant bamboo Dendrocalamus asper is recommended in environmental and livelihood programs in the Philippines due to its various ecological, economic and social benefits. However, there are limited data on the ecology of giant bamboo litterfall production, which contributes to soil nutrient availability. Bamboo also contributed in carbon sequestration. The study was conducted within the ...

Representative population random sampling plans were used for the recruitment of participants for all study sites. As of June 2011, 20 sites (in 18 countries) had completed data collection and are included in this analysis: Guangzhou (China), Adana (Turkey), Salzburg (Austria), Cape Town (South Africa), Reykjavik (Iceland), Hannover (Germany), Krakow (Poland), Bergen (Norway), Vancouver (Canada...

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, KU Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Java, Indonesia, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philipp...

a Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Luke’s Medical Center Global City, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Philippines d Department of...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes (2, 4, 5, 7–9) and subgenotypes (11, 13, 14, 16–18) are important factors that influence the course of the disease and the outcome of treatment. Because of the clinical importance of the HBV classification, an accurate assignation of newly found subgenotypes to their respective clades and an unambiguous nomenclature are needed. A new HBV subgenotype should diff...

Cigarette smuggling reduces the price of cigarettes, thwarts youth access restrictions, reduces government revenue, and undercuts the ability of taxes to reduce consumption. The tobacco industry often opposes increases to tobacco taxes on the claim that greater taxes induce more smuggling. To date, little is known about the magnitude of smuggling in the Philippines. his information is necessary...

INTRODUCTION In 1991 the Philippines Government introduced a major devolution of national government services, which included the first wave of health sector reform, through the introduction of the Local Government Code of 1991. The Code devolved basic services for agriculture extension, forest management, health services, barangay (township) roads and social welfare to Local Government Units. ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant faecal Escherichia coli from adult volunteers from urban (U) areas in Kenya, Mexico, Peru and the Philippines, and non-urban (NU) locations in Curacao, Mexico, Venezuela, Ghana, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. METHODS Faecal samples of adult volunteers (n=1290) were analysed in one laboratory for the presence of antimicrobial-resist...

Schistosoma japonicum, the only schistosome species in the Philippines, was first described in 1906 among patients at the Philippines General Hospital and among inmates of a Manila prison [1]. In 1937, Onchomelania quadrasi was identified as the intermediate host of S. japonicum in the Philippines, and mapping projects to locate transmission sites commenced. Such studies revealed that schistoso...