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DEAR MR. EPPY,  I don’t know how I got the nerve to send you this letter about me and my lovely wife of 14 years, but I finally sent it.  I don’t have the guts to tell this story to anyone else. I don’t know why, but you are the only one I can share this with even if I know you will publish this.    My wife and I were once very active sexually. I think my relationship with my wife is unique and no one else in the world has the same situation as ours. I have a wonderful and faithful wife. Now, we will be celebrating our 12th anniversary. We have four kids. My wife is younger than me by 25 years.  I feel she needs more sex than what she is getting, but I cannot provide it for her anymore because of my age.  After sex, I become too tired.  I realize it is unfair to her.  So I gave her freedom and told her to find sex outside our marital bed.  She got angry and didn’t speak to me for 10 days. I apologized to her and she accepted. She thought that I was tired of her and our family. But this is not the case. I felt sad that I could not provide the sexual happiness she deserved. I wanted her to be happy. But then I gave her rules on how she must go about this so our family would not be compromised. Read More …

A Filipino baby at a Gawad Kalinga Village. Philip Brookes WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Xinhua) — Infants who can’t yet speak themselves are able to recognize that people who speak different languages use words differently, according to New Zealand research. A study at the University of Auckland found that infants as young as 13 months understood that people from different linguistic communities used different words to refer to the same object. “This is the first evidence that infants do not indiscriminately generalize words across people,” study co-author Dr Annette Henderson said in a statement. “This early appreciation might help infants by encouraging them to focus on learning the words that will most likely be shared by members of their own linguistic group.” The researchers tested whether infants understood that word meanings (object labels) were not shared by individuals who speak different languages by showing infants from English-speaking families video clips that introduced two actors: one speaking French and the other English. They then monitored how long each infant looked at objects after the objects had been labeled by each actor, as infants looked longer at things they find novel or unexpected. Lifestyle Feature ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: They found the infants applied the rules they had learned of their own language and expected speakers of foreign languages to label objects consistently. “This finding shows that infants appreciate that words are not shared by speakers of different languages, suggesting that infants have a fairly nuanced understanding of the conventional Read More …

MANILA, Philippines – Innovation is part of MediCard’s commitment to quality healthcare as it continuously embodies the latest systems and technology in the health management industry.  That is why, recently, its employees and officers took part in the ICD-10 seminar workshop, a training program designed to reinforce the latest medical classification list endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), adopted and mandated by DOH for use among all health institutions locally. “ICD-10, which has over 16,000 codes, allows a much more specific coding of diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases of our patients in MediCard,” says Dr. Nicky Montoya, MediCard president.  “We’re proud to say that we have been embracing this system for almost five years now.”  Dr. Montoya adds that the coding system is helpful in utilization analysis to help companies manage their healthcare costs. Further, having claims personnel and clinic staff who are well-versed with the codes produces a faster and more reliable service to MediCard patients. The ICD-10 is a universal language used in different health organizations. With this, medical records are easily understood worldwide because diagnosis is easily discerned from the records. Conducted by National ICD-10 trainers Teresa Timbang and Fe Sinson of the Department of Health (DOH) National Epidemiologic Center (NEC), Philippine Medical Records Association (PMRA) president Lilian Garcia and PMRA secretary Elizabeth Tayag, the seminar produced a 95% passing rate among the participants.  Topping the new team of ICD-10 coders are: Dr. Jaen Castillo, Read More …

Gawad Kalinga (GK) founder Tony Meloto motivates volunteers to work hard all day as one united force that will bring about a nation free from poverty. Five years ago, the local government of Makati evicted 500 informal settlers from various private properties inside the country’s premier financial district. To the residents’ surprise, however, theirs was the only relocation that ended up in a place rightly called “Dreamland.” With the help of Gawad Kalinga (GK) and a vast network of private companies and donors, dilapidated shanties were exchanged for middle-class houses, constricted eskenitas for wide, fully-paved roads, and hazardous living conditions for a subdivision that has existing amenities for water, electricity, education, and healthcare. Owned and managed by the Makati local government, Dreamland Ville is a 3.2-hectare property in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan for 500 former urban poor settlers of the said city. Last June 12, with the help of Berjaya Corporation, the LGU was set to finish the housing project with 30 houses expected to be built in a span of three months. There was a time when 57-year-old Lilia Soriano was envious of her neighbors who were the first recipients of decent houses five years ago. All that changed last June 12 when Nanay Lilia became one of the projected beneficiaries of the soon-to-be constructed block. With hope ever so near, Nanay Lilia was one of the first volunteers present and working at the site hours before the official program started. Later that morning, Nanay Lilia was in Read More …