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Published May 6, 2021, 8:22 PM Deputy Speaker and 1Sagip Partylist Rep. Rodante Marcoleta has asked the Department of Health and other health professionals to explain their preference in prescribing Remdesivir notwithstanding the World Health Organization’s advisory against its use for people battling the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Marcoleta said officials of the DOH and the Food and Drug Administration should also make public disclosure of their links with the so-called Big Pharma, stressing that they should be forthright in telling the public which companies financed res...

Dr. Benigno “Iggy” Agbayani, head of Concerned Doctors and Citizens of the Philippines, who was also present during the drug’s free distribution last week, made this claim in a televised interview with CNN Philippines on April 30. “I also forgot to write ‘ivermectin’ and the reason for that sa dami po ng reseta na nabigay ko, akala ko nalagay ko na yung ivermectin,” Agbayani said. Called “Ivermectin pan-three,” Deputy Speaker  Rodante Marcoleta (Sagip party-list) and Rep.  Michael Defensor (Anakalusugan party-list) distributed unregistered doses to residents of a barang...

Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) PCP Vice President Dr. Maricar Limpin warned that taking the drug despite the lack of evidence to support claims that it is supposedly effective against COVID-19 will only give people false security. “Ang aming posisyon diyan (Our position in that) is we still have to wait for the results of the clinical trials because that will be our evidence on whether we can give it for COVID-19 or not,” Limpin said in a TeleRadyo interview Friday, April 30. President Duterte has ordered the conduct of clinical trials in the country on the use of the drug as a po...

BusinessWorld April 30, 2021 | 7:58 pm Anti-parasitic not a substitute for vaccines says ivermectin advocate Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Jose Ma. “Joey” Concepcion III said that the private sector would prioritize donating 500,000 AstraZeneca doses to the government if deliveries from the COVAX global facility to the Philippine government are delayed. The Philippines has already received more than 500,000 AstraZeneca doses from the facility, which were used to inoculate medical frontliners. The second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine should be given four...

Published April 28, 2021, 3:38 PM A lawyer on Wednesday, April 28, challenged Health Secretary Francisco Duque to recommend the imposition of price caps on Remdesivir if he is convinced that the World Health Organization was wrong in declaring the reported anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) drug as “ineffective” against the deadly ailment. Lawyer Larry Gadon aired the challenge even as he prepared for the filing of criminal complaints against pharmaceutical firms, distributors and retailers of Remdesivir that have taken advantage of the current pandemic to overprice the drug. Gadon, toge...