Education, Health & Science

AC Health is expanding its Japanese-inspired pharmacy concept with the opening of a second St. Joseph Drug Powered by SUGI (SJS) store, four months after the format debuted at One Ayala Mall in Makati City.

The British Council is expanding its English assessment network across the Philippines, adding testing locations and new products as demand grows for internationally recognized qualifications used for education, employment and migration.

Water treatment usually sounds reassuringly dull: filters, pipes, perhaps a little chlorine doing its invisible housekeeping. Now, engineers are proposing something rather more dramatic—turning ordinary water into a chemistry lab capable of dismantling antibiotic-resistant bacteria and, crucially, the genetic material they leave behind.

This Teacher’s Month, AIA Philippines, The Medical City, ABS-CBN Foundation, and the DepEd Schools Division of San Jose del Monte launched the Hope Mobi Clinic, offering free breast cancer screening to 100 public school teachers in Bulacan. A formal Memorandum of Understanding signing solidified the partners’ shared goal of bringing breast health care closer to communities.

Calls are growing for the government to adopt different tax rates for cigarettes and smoke-free nicotine products, as industry groups warn that steep taxes on vapes and heated tobacco could drive more consumers toward the illicit market.