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Academician Carmencita D. Padilla said there should be an item for a genetics counsellor in the plantilla of secondary and tertiary hospitals in the country to help address the gaps in the treatment and services for rare disease patients in the Philippines.

The UP Manila College of Medicine professor made this statement during a Roundtable Discussion on Rare Diseases organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s National Academy of Science and Technology (DOST-NAST) held at Traders Hotel recently. Padilla is a DOST-NAST Academician.

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You may have seen storm chasers only in the movies, but now it is for real. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Chief himself revealed his plans to form a “storm chaser” team to complement DOST’s existing weather monitoring systems.

DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo disclosed this during the Mindanao Cluster Science and Technology Fair at the SMX Convention Center in Lanang, Davao City.

“Last year, we started the storm chaser technologies or the mobile radar to be deployed near the areas where the typhoon will hit… for additional weather monitoring for incoming weather disturbances,” explained Sec. Montejo.

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The Next Wave Cities, a program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Office, is one way to help solve Metro Manila’s worsening traffic situation.

This is according to Monchito Ibrahim, deputy executive director of DOST’s ICT Office, who attributed the daily traffic in Metro Manila to the many companies that still choose to operate in Eastwood, Makati, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, and other major commercial destinations in the metro.

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The Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) flagship program for disaster risk reduction and mitigation called Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards or Project NOAH once again showed its multi-faceted benefits when its mobile app ARKO recently grabbed an award conferred only to a select few by the World Summit Awards Mobile Content 2014 (WSA Mobile).

The ARKO mobile app was chosen as one of five winners under the e-Inclusion and Empowerment category, besting hundreds of participants from all over the world. This prestigious international award recognizes the best mobile content solutions in the world where it shows innovativeness, creativity and impact.