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INTRODUCING ... UMED’s new modules

Breast Cancer

  • Dennis M. Tudtud, M.D.
  • Christina G. Galvez, M.D.

    This module contains the clinical presentation...

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    “Current Issues in Pulmonary and Critical Care” UMED’s Premier State-of-the-Art Conference for 2008

    Among the series of State-of-the Art conferences of UMED this year was the very successful and comprehensive review of the current issues...

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    UMED launches 7 new workbooks

    October 27, 2008 marked the beginning of a new series of interactive conferences. It was a bright, sunny Monday when UMED Board of Advisers...

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    UMED STATE-OF-THE-ART CONFERENCES ON “BIOETHICAL ISSUES” - 2008 BEST SELLERS

    Bioethical issues in clinical practice, one of UMED’s more frequently requested conference, was again a “best seller” for the year 2008....

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    UMED’S State-of-the-Art Conference in "Bioethical Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology", the first for 2008

    For the year 2008, UMED ventured on its second out of the country State-of-the-Art conference in Macau, China. Held once again in Hotel Lisboa at the...

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    UMED GOES GLOBAL: The first UMED Indonesian Symposium on "Heart Failure"
    February 14 ushered in a new era in continuing medical education in Indonesia and was marked by the signing agreement ceremony between UMED Indonesia and the Indonesian Heart Association.
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    A record-breaking State-of-the-Art Conference on the current challenges in Pediatric Pulmonology 2008

    The last of the series of State-of-the Art conferences of UMED for this year ended with another record breaking feat – an unprecedented number of delegates...

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    UMED State-of-the-Art Conference: Bioethical issues in Cardiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology

    “Bioethics is a science that comprises correct knowledge and correct action, a circular movement of theory and practice through which biomedical facts...

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    First UMED Interactive Conference on "Vaginal Discharge"

    One of UMED’S newly launched modules, Vaginal Discharge, had its first small group interactive conference on August 16 at Annabel’s Restaurant in Quezon...

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    UMED’S 1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLORECTAL CANCER CONFERENCE – ANOTHER MILESTONE

    For 2007, UMED ventured on its first ever out of the country State-of-the-Art conference in Macau, a city of churches, fortresses and a self styled...

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    THE FIRST MYNAMAR OUTREACH INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE IN HYPERTENSION 2007

    UMED this year has gone global for its first outreach conference in Yangon Myanmar. Bringing noted medical experts in Philippine cardiology to an academic...

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    DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT (DSWD) PARTNERS WITH UMED FOR A SERIES OF UMED INTERACTIVE OUTREACH CONFERENCES

    Dr. Esperanza Cabral, upon assuming her post as Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare & Development (DSWD), realized the complex duties, functions...

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    TB UPDATE INTERACTIVE SESSION IN RECORD BREAKING TIME

    UMED’s interactive sessions, since its inception, were conducted in a span of approximately an hour and fifteen minutes. On a number of occassions,...

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    PHILIPPINE FEDERATION OF PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS INC. (PFPPI) HIGHLIGHTS UMED’S CONFERENCE ON COPD

    For its 73rd Annual Convention at the Trader’s Hotel on March 11, the Philippine Federation of Private Practitioners Inc. (PFPPI) included as one of...

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    FROM THE BMS TRAINING PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS OF UNITED PHARMA (MYANMAR)

    When we heard about the UMED Basic Medical Science (BMS) Training for United Pharma (Myanmar), our people were excited and enthusiastic. However, some...

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    BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCE (BMS) TRAINING COURSE GOES TO UNITED PHARMA (MYANMAR)

    The new professional sales representatives of United Laboratories, Inc. undergo mandatory comprehensive training programs that allow them to acquire...

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    A NEW BREAKING RECORD: UMED’S MODULE LAUNCHING 2007

    UMED’s current maxim- “More Passionate and Driven in 2007” was underscored in the recent launching of

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    New MEDLINK Website---Now For Public Viewing!

    The innovativeness of United Laboratories as a pharmaceutical company became very evident with the creation of UMED (Unilab Education...

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    QCMS participates in Bioethics Module

    Sulo Hotel in Quezon City was the site for the UMED interactive conference on Bioethics last November 10. The module was requested by the Quezon City...

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    MEDICATION SAFETY INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE: The First of its Kind

    The Optimum Health Outcomes Through Medication Safety is Unilab’s first program in continuing education for pharmacists. For 2006, Unilab organized...

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    ANOTHER UMED FIRST . . . . APARRI, CAGAYAN

    Aparri, a tranquil town in Cagayan province is located in the northernmost part of the Luzon island. This quiescent area, characterized by sunshine,...

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    UMED CARDIOLOGY INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE

    Another successful undertaking of UMED took place at the Caloocan City Hall last September 7, 2006. It was a pilot session of the cardiology module...

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    BIOMEDIS-ONCO TEAM PROMOTES SDB’S INFO SERVICE

    The Biomedis-Onco Team brought SDB’s information service to the doorstep of oncologists. The team offered the e-SDB privilege cards to medical oncologists,...

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    UMED Bioethics Conference at the Heritage Hotel

    Bioethics, one of the latest UMED modules, was the topic for discussion in the recently concluded conference of 43 physicians of various practices...

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    UMED goes to Indonesia

    Indonesia is an archipelago composed of more than 17,000 islands with a population of approximately 220 million. There are around 8,000 physicians...

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    “Double Burden of Malnutrition in the Philippines” and “Health Issues in Women” – UMED SOAs 2006

    UMED’s first of a series of State-of-the-Art (SOA) lectures for the year 2006 started off with two major medical concerns. “Malnutrition” and “Women’s...

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    SDB Launches On-Line Information Service

    August 11 marked a night of new endeavors. SCIENTIFIC DATABANK (SDB) launched Unilab’s first on-line information service - - e-SDB MD Central. The...

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    UMED WRITING CONTEST

    UMED will choose articles to be published on its quarterly newsletter. The award for the quarterly winner is P3,000. The BEST...

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    UMED Through SDB Combines Forces With HIMG And PPhA In The Launching Of Optimum Health Outcomes Through Medication Safety

    What if a doctor prescribes the wrong medicine? What if a nurse gives the wrong dose? The patient sustains injuries or worse, dies. Thus, medication...

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    UMED’s 1st Cebu Breast Cancer Conference – A Milestone Of Many Firsts

    The prevalence rate of breast cancer in the Philippines has risen rapidly in the recent years and was noted to be one of the highest in the Asian region....

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    MDs CONVENIENCE: The Force Behind SDBs Information Service

    SCIENTIFIC DATABANK (SDB), Unilab resource center of medical information, makes research work easier not only for doctors but for pharmacists...

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    WHAT'S NEW

    You deserve to know the latest books at Scientific Databank Quality Control Herbal Drugs, Strategy to Improve Child Survival, Growth...

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    Better Than Ever, The New UMED Website Coming Soon!!

    United Laboratories Inc. went beyond the confines of conventional pharmaceutical business in establishing UMED as a foremost teaching institution...

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    Indonesian Physicians Interact In UMED Facilitators Workshop And Pulmonary Outreach Conference

    The year 2006 was marked by a very proactive Indonesian participation in a number of UMED activities. Aside from attending the State-of the-Art conferences,...

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    UMED’s Midyear State-of-the-Art Conferences 2006: Burning Issues in Hypertension and the Metabolic Syndrome and Controversies in Pulmonary Critical Care
    UMED’s Midyear State-of-the-Art Conferences 2006
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    UMED Conference: Batanes Island’s First In 30 Years

    Batanes, the smallest province in the Philippines is located about 162 kms. north of the Luzon mainland. Isolated from the rest of the country by miles...

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    Philippine Pediatrics Society forms Dengue Working Group

    Due to the rising number of cases of dengue fever in the country, the Philippine Pediatrics Society (PPS) formed the Dengue Working Group to formulate...

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    PALAWAN: A Site for the Frontiers of Bioethics

    Palawan, considered the Philippines' last frontier, land of rainforests, dive sites and pristine beaches, was venue of one of its UMED interactive...

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    UMED Holds SOA Conferences on Lung Cancer and Pediatric Hematologic Diseases

    Side by side, two State-of-the Art (SOA) conferences – “State of War Against Lung Cancer” and “Pediatric Hematological Diseases: Focus...

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    UMED Faculty Members Attend Facilitation Skills Workshop

    Once again, Marie Zellie S. Tan, Ph. D. a Management Training and Development Consultant was invited by UMED to conduct a Facilitation...

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    UMED Gives Birth to Two New Modules
    Two new UMED learning modules have just been born – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Rational Antibiotic Use in Pediatrics. Dr. Lenora C. Fernandez and Dr. Ma Liza M. Gonzales developed the workbooks for these new modules, respectively.
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    UMED Joins PhilCAT and PCCP in TB Convention
    Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be in the top ten causes of morbidity and mortality in the Philippines. Studies have shown that one of the major causes of this is the lack of a standardized approach among TB practitioners in the management of this disease.
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    UMED Welcomes New Head
    For some time the UMED Staff was fatherless when its former Executive Director, Dr. Rodrigo Romulo bade goodbye to assume his new post at US-AID,WHO. While the search for the right person to succeed Dr. Romulo appeared difficult considering the high standards of the position, it did not really take long for UNILAB’s management to decide on who the new UMED head should be. He has not only the right academic credentials but also the rich managerial experience of having headed various medical groups.
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    UMED Honors Esteemed Faculty

    UMED, the provider of a unique CME program for doctors honored...

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    UMED Conducts 4th Facilitation Skills Workshop

    For some people adept in group interactions, handling seminars effectively may come with ease. For others, such a task may prove daunting...

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    A Coup detat - No Hindrance To Success of UMED Conference
    Another milestone for UMED was achieved last July 26 and 27,2003 when it conducted the First Conference on Bioethics in Pulmonary Medicine. Like the other significant events of UMED, the Eugenio Lopez Center in Antipolo was the rightfully chosen venue for this 1 1/2-day Conference.
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    First UMED COPD Interactive Lecture Conducted

    UMED conducted its first COPD workshop with the Family & Community Medicine Resident Physicians of UP-Philippine General Hospital at...

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    La Nińa Welcomes UMED to Baguio

    As the UMED team chanted "Baguio, here we come," so did La Niña answer "Welcome UMED!"

    All set for...

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    Unilab sets cardiology conferences in February

    To usher in its projected country-wide seminars in cardiology, UNILAB - through its learning resource arm, UMED - has red-lettered...

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    UMED Thanksgiving and Christmas Party- A Celebration of Joy and Success
    It was a "Night to Remember" for UMED last December 8, 2003 at the EDSA Shangri-la, Palawan Hall. Important guests gathered and joined the Celebration of Unilab's UMED thanksgiving dinner.
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    Reach Out for More in 2004!

    Since its launching in 2000, the Unilab Medical Education & Development Program of United Laboratories, Inc. has unceasingly soared...

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    UMED Partners with PMWA in a Bioethics Conference

    "Healthcare professionals have the knowledge and skill to make technical decisions, but every health care decision involves human...

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    UMED SOA Conferences in Cardiology
    The successful two-day State-of-the Art Conferences (SOAs) on February 2nd and 8th, 2004, conducted at EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, Mandaluyong City drew not only a big turnout of active participants (259 doctors from all over the country), but likewise a fruitful outcome of their evaluations.
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    Quality CME Conducted at UMED Mindanao Outreach (1st Chronic Cough Module)

    It all started on July 14 in Davao City, the first touch point in a three-day UMED outreach on chronic cough in Central Mindanao....

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    UMED Activities in Tuberculosis Recognized

    As the world commemorates the TB Day with a theme " Every Breath Counts, Stop TB Now!", UMED takes pride to receive a Plaque...

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    The UMED TB RoadShow
    The UMED TB TEAM, with its partner-collaborator, Medichem Division, began the "Basic TB Directly Observed Treatment Short Course Therapy (DOTS) Course for Referring Physicians" roadshow
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    Davao Bombed, UMED Unfazed
    UMED is not just about providing CME opportunities for the Filipino physicians. UMED is also about a strong and focused commitment to UNILAB’s partnership with the medical profession in availing patients of better health care that they deserve.
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    The Filipino Physician in these Troubled Times
    People in all walks of life consider these times as perilous in all aspects of life. In the eyes of a Filipino physician we are surely in the troubled times.
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