Medical updates.

(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Rafael R. Castillo, MD

I USUALLY get my medical and scientific updates by attending conventions, reading journals and discussing with my fellow doctors. I also get practical nuggets of information from medical writers in lay publications such as my colleagues in this section and our writers in the Health & Lifestyle magazine.

Sherma Benosa is one of our researchers and writers whose passion for reading medical journals and health publications keeps her medically updated. All I need is to ask her is, "What's new, Sherma?" and she speedily e-mails me 30,000 bytes of her recent readings. Here's a capsulized sampling of them.

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