CBSi Three Years and Counting...

Cebu MD was filled with excitement yesterday to finally meet his Cebu Bloggers Society family. It was like Phil Younghusband finally meeting up with Angel Locsin. (char!)

Well, his fellow CBSi colleagues did not disappoint.

Yipee! CBSi @ 3

February 19 is one day I will never forget.

Aside from my dad's birthday, it is also the day when my new family will celebrate its 3rd birthday this year. Happy 3rd Birthday Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc.(CBSi) !

Actually, CBSi inspired me to start blogging. It was a year ago when I chanced upon the CBS website and the blogs of its members...

Acute Kidney Injury Has a New Biomarker

Good day Doctors:

There is a new acute kidney injury biomarker which has just been launched abroad and will perhaps be on its way to Philippine shores in the near future.

It is NGAL or neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (an ubiquitous 25 kDa protein), a new early marker for acute kidney injury which levels rise rapidly after renal injury (rises earlier than creatinine) and one test is an ELISA for the determination of human NGAL in urine, plasma or serum. There is another that can be used with a laboratory's chemistry analyzer.

Details at NGAL.com.

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Beware: HIV is on the Rise

As Valentine's Day nears, perhaps this is the most appropriate time to give an update of the local HIV situation.

Incidence of HIV in the Philippines cases has been described as slow but sure. Look again.

On the Recent Taxi and Jeep Fare Increase

Yesterday, I finally was in a taxi using the new flagdown rate of P40 with P3.50 increments travel in a certain distance. And I realized, I will never ride a taxi whenever possible. Why?