Remembering the victims of that tragic limousine accident
By Lourdes Santos TancincoFilipino nurses are in the spotlight once again following the tragic death of five Filipino immigrant nurses in California’s San Mateo Bridge two weeks ago.
Filipino nurses are in the spotlight once again following the tragic death of five Filipino immigrant nurses in California’s San Mateo Bridge two weeks ago.

The importance of mothers in the world became clear to me one afternoon a few years ago when my son made a choice during a brief visit to the hospital. I expected he would pick me. Instead, he picked his mother. He just had a minor procedure and the doctor said the surgery [...]
Menchu Sanchez, a Filipino nurse from Secaucus, New Jersey, was recognized by United States President Barack Obama as a hero for rescuing 20 premature babies during Superstorm “Sandy” in 2012.

Hearts swelling with pride, Filipino-American health care professionals hailed Menchu de Luna Sanchez who engineered the transfer of 20 at-risk infants to other intensive care units when the power went out during Superstorm “Sandy.”

A man dials 999. Hazel Margarita Parado takes the call. Geoffrey Panganiban, part of a three-man ambulance team, prepares for dispatch. It is an emergency hotline in Dubai.

Nurse Analiza Benjamin is currently serving in Afghanistan as a health care mentor, a job description that brings her in “direct contact” with the Afghan National Army.

Times Square was a sea of white last month as about 6,000 sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen flocked town for the annual Fleet Week tradition.
Some 100 Filipino nurses, technicians, and other hospital staff were among the 800 workers out of a job now in New York when the hospital they were working for officially shut its doors.

Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday denounced Washington, DC council member Marion Barry for allegedly racist remarks against Filipino nurses working in US hospitals.

Police said Thursday they were investigating the possibility that a gunman who killed a Filipina and six other people at a tiny private Christian college had multiple targets that he intended to kill in his rampage.

Filipino nurse Aizel Mendoza remembers the very first words spoken by her young Arab ward at the Autism Academy of Jordan.

A Filipino from this Oriental Mindoro city was named Nurse of the Year during the 2011 Star Awards of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH).