Category: Health

Filipino journalist bags Global Media Award

by Ted Regencia, posted in Community, Health

PINOY Newsmagazine/Philippine News
January 2008

Text, photo and video by Ted Regencia

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A disturbing look on sex, media and children and a separate story on population explosion and its effects on the environment, won Philippine television reporter Melclaire Sy Delfin the 2007 Global Media Award from the Washington-based Population Institute (PI).

Delfin, of television network GMA 7 and its US affiliate GMA Pinoy TV, was cited for Best Individual Reporting for her articles “The Forbidden Games Filipino Children Play” and “When Wells Run Dry: A Tragedy Looming Large.”

The lone Asian awardee shared the stage with a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, a radio show host from the African country of Cameroon, and nine other recipients, during a ceremony, December 5, at the Rayburn House of Representatives Office Building in the US capital.
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Exclusive Interview: Heart-to-heart talk with Oprah’s cardiologist

by Ted Regencia, posted in Health

PINOY Newsmagazine/Inquirer.net/Philippine News
April 2005

Text and photo by Ted Regencia

CHICAGO — Because of “poor diet,” many Filipinos are vulnerable to heart disease, the number one killer in the United States.

Take that valuable words of caution from Dr. Annabelle Santos Volgman, one of the top cardiologists in the country. Volgman is the director of the Electrocardiography Services at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She also happens to be the cardiologist of TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

In an exclusive interview, the Marikina-born, New York-raised, medical practitioner laid out the scientific facts and enumerated crucial life-saving measures to protect one’s heart.

“Eighty percent of strokes and heart attacks are preventable,” Volgman declared. “And if more people knew that it’s in their hands to prevent them, I think they will change their lifestyle.”

For Filipino families, that change of lifestyle starts in the kitchen.
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U.S. health care crisis fuels Pinoys’ American dream

by Ted Regencia, posted in Health

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com
September 2, 2002

By Ted A. Regencia

CHICAGO — Lisa, 25, is a computer engineer from Mindanao. Desperate for a job, she left the Philippines for the United States in 1999. Three years of hard work and loneliness have paid off. She now drives her own car and leads a comfortable life in a Chicago suburb.

DJ, Lisa’s cousin, is also an engineer. Lured by the promise of pay in greenbacks, he gave up his 10-year-old job in Makati to pursue his American dream. As a reward, he was able to finance the repair of his parents’ house in their provincial hometown, send money to his relatives and save enough for his and his wife’s first born that is due in November.

Lisa and DJ are making money not because they are engineers. Both are caregivers, a job they never imagined doing while they were still in college back in the Philippines.
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