MANILA – President Duterte has admitted having difficulty reading small prints after he misread of the number of drug users in the country, which was 1.67 million and not 167 million. Duterte said that he has poor eyesight and he read the 168, instead of 1.6. “There is a point in between. So, it’s 1.6. I thought it’s straight 16.” …

PETALING JAYA – Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today echoed the recent research findings released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the effectiveness of the drug dexamethasone on treating patients with Covid-19. According to the Health director-general, the findings reported by WHO obtained during the Solidarity Therapeutics Trial that dexamethasone which is the drug to prevent …

Following the example of scientists in other countries, U.S. researchers have conducted experiments to see whether readily available, low-cost generic medicines can be used to help cure the disease caused by the modern coronavirus. There are currently no vaccines or therapies for extremely infectious respiratory disease COVID-19, and patients can only provide supportive care for the time being. But a …