Tag: July 31, 2004

There’s now a better pill for brittle bones.

A strontium-containing anti-osteoporosis drug was found to effectively lessen risks of bone factures in postmenopausal osteoporotics after a three-year study.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, strontium ranelate, an orally administered drug, reduces risks of vertebral fractures and increases bone mineral density by increasing bone formation and lowering bone resorption or gradual bone loss.

AS A RESULT of the rising global demand for nurses, the College of Nursing (Nursing) has joined the bandwagon of hiring and “pirating” faculty members.

According to Nursing Dean Glenda Vargas, the College has been hiring recent graduates, instructors, and professors from other schools to replace about 20 faculty members who left the University for greener pastures.

OVER the years, sports terms and jargons have suffered linguistic overuse and misuse by people from all walks of life. But before the play of words floor their real meanings, here are some facts to shoot things straight.

Adrenaline rush

ROND DE JAMBE (rohn dih ZHAnB) – “circle/circling of the leg;” a movement in which the working leg is made to describe a letter D. Both legs must be kept perfectly straight and all movement must come from the hip, along with the arching and relaxing of the instep. This is an exercise for good turn-outs of the legs and feet.

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Some of the “unbundled” charges in your Meralco bills, ladies and gentlemen. Incidentally, the word “charge” also means “attack.” Enjoy.

WE SHOULDN’T rejoice just yet.

True enough, we should all express a sigh of relief as Angelo de la Cruz returned home safe and sound last week.

AT FIRST, the government said it was not pulling out troops out of Iraq until August 20, the day scheduled for the 51 Philippine soldiers to leave their posts in the war-torn country. But now we all know the government has sung a different tune as the last of the peace-keeping troops was sent home last week to clear the way for kidnapped Filipino worker Angelo de la Cruz’s release.

The release is hailed by some sectors as a triumph for President Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration. It is a triumph indeed, but only temporary.

CHILDREN have found it tiresome nowadays to read a book, much less to open it because of the distraction of television and computer games. But poverty of reading also means a poverty of imagination and creativity.

To counter this decline of the reading habit, children were encouraged to explore the joys of reading during the 21st National Children’s Book Day, held last July 20 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines by the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY).

FACING the crisis in the Catholic priesthood, the Thomasian community joined the thousands of men in frock who gathered in the First National Congress of the Clergy last July 5-9 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. An estimated 3,800 priests, seminarians and deacons, and 100 bishops attended. Around 2,500 families volunteered to house the participants for the length of the first-ever national assembly of priests.

With the theme “Renewal of the Clergy, Renewal of the Church, Renewal of the Country, through the Sanctification of Priests.”

TO PROVIDE more UST employees the convenience of owning residential units near the campus, the proposed UST-exclusive condominium in 2003 is moved to a more spacious 1,300-sq.m. lot in G. Tolentino St. near España Avenue.

DESPITE not taking the first place in the Pharmacy Licensure Examinations last July unlike last year, the University more than made up for it as nine of its graduates entered the licensure’s top 20.

Alumnus Werner Umali registered a score of 90.56 per cent to place second and lead the batch of new Thomasian Pharmacists. Aside from Umali, others who made the top 10 were Djaninah De Guzman (fourth, 90.05 per cent), Jewellyn Ruth Que (fifth, 89.83 per cent), and Kristoferson Rapada (ninth, 89.55 per cent.