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Ivermectin pills (Photo courtesy of IndiaMart via PNA) FDA Director-General Rolando Enrique Domingo said that it would be best to wait for the result of the different studies being conducted by health experts on Ivermectin before making a conclusion. “We recognized that it is a drug under investigation for treatment of COVID-19 but we still do not have any solid evidence yet. Right now, the scientific evidence is not sufficient for us to be able to say that it really works against COVID-19, s...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 3) — The investigation on the possible lapses during the distribution of antiparasitic drug ivermectin will include all involved personalities and doctors, the Department of Health said on Monday. Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor, who led the event with Rep. Rodante Marcoleta last April 29, has asked the DOH to spare the doctors who prescribed and gave away the drug. He said they as organizers should be the ones held liable. Health Undersecretary M...

Ivermectin pills (Photo courtesy of IndiaMart via PNA) Dr. Mario Panaligan, President of PCP, urged the Department of Health (DOH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to urgently act on the matter of mass distribution of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin recently. This, after Anakalusugan party-list Rep. Mike Defensor and Sagip party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta distributed Ivermectin capsules to residents of Quezon City last week. “Ito’y isang gamot na nagagamit po talaga para sa mga pa...

Lawmakers to push through with ivermectin distribution enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 2) – Two lawmakers are pushing through with their groups distribution of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, despite criticisms and a looming investigation. In an online forum on Sunday, Sagip Party-list Rep. Dante Marcoleta said aside from Barangay Balara in Quezon City, they would also be giving out ivermectin to residents in Barangays Commonwealth and Holy Spirit. "H...

(Manila Bulletin File Photo) DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said a notice has been issued and that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III urged those recipients of Ivermectin capsules to report to the agency should they encounter adverse events. “The Secretary encourages all those who received the Ivermectin capsules, kung maaari, magreport lang po sa DOH para lang po malaman namin kung sakaling meron po silang ibang mararamdaman (if possible, they report to the DOH so that we would...

If anyone should be held accountable for any adverse effects of anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, it is the people who chose to take it, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Saturday, May 1. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III Sotto issued the statement after medical and pharmacists

Philippine Medical Association (Manila Bulletin File Photo) The PMA said the current evidence on the use of Ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19 patients is inconclusive as declared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO). “Ivermectin must be prescribed and used within the same hospital and the prescribing doctor must inform the patient of this compassionate use category with unproven end result,” it said in a stateme...

Mike Defensor asks DOH to spare doctors who issued ivermectin prescriptions By JAMIL SANTOS, GMA News Published May 1, 2021 8:43pm Anakalusugan Party-list Representative Mike Defensor on Saturday asked the Department of Health (DOH) not to run after doctors who allegedly issued invalid prescriptions for the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin at a distribution project he and Rep. Rodante Marcoleta had organized. Last Tuesday, Marcoleta and Defensor, despite not being doctors,  announced tha...

endIndex: Metro Mania (CNN Philippines, April 30) — For staunch ivermectin advocate and Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor, prescriptions that were written on a blank paper during the recent distribution of the antiparasitic drug to residents in Quezon City counts as a "non-issue." "It’s a non-issue," Defensor told CNN Philippines The Source on Friday. "It’s a non-issue because you only have four doctors, you have four tables. Alam mo naman yung signature nila (you could easily...

By HANA BORDEY, GMA News Published April 30, 2021 10:05am The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must investigate reports of “token” prescription during the distribution of ivermectin in Quezon City, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Friday. Duque was reacting to reports that doctors who joined Representatives Rodante Marcoleta and Mike Defensor’s distribution of ivermectin wrote their prescriptions on a piece of paper and not on a prescription pad. “Kung totoo man yon na...