DLSHSI Conducts Groundbreaking Research on Tuberculosis in Children

De La Salle Health Sciences Institute’s (DLSHSI) Angelo King Medical Research Center is proud to have been selected to conduct a first of its kind pediatric trial of a novel compound against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). There is an estimated half a million cases of childhood TB all over the world according to the World Health Organization, which results in 64,000 deaths.

The Phase I trial aims to assess the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination (pharmacokinetics) of a new medicine for pediatric MDR-TB developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Otsuka. The company has been conducting global studies on the compound in adult patients with MDR-TB at sites around the world, including the Philippines. 

Additionally, an equally groundbreaking Phase II study at the same institution will also be conducted to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of the new drug in adolescents, children, and infants. 

One of the major challenges with treating MDR-TB in childen is the difficulty in first diagnosing the disease in this age group. Because of a difficulty in obtaining actual microbiological evidence of the disease, doctors must often rely on signs and symptoms, which do not determine if the strain is drug resistant or not. In addition, a lack of clinical trials and child-friendly formulations of anti-TB medicines means that there is very little existing information on how to properly treat and dose children suffering from the disease. 

The research team led by Dr. Melchor Victor G. Frias IV of De La Salle Health Sciences Institute's Angelo King Medical Research Center.

Heading the trial is principal investigator Dr. Melchor Victor G. Frias IV, DLSHSI’s vice chancellor for research as well as a practicing pediatrician and clinical epidemiologist at De La Salle University Medical Center.

“This trial is finally putting greater attention on the need to properly treat MDR-TB in children,” said Dr. Frias. “DLSHSI is proud to have been selected to conduct this work and serve as a leader in peadiatric TB research in the Philippines and globally.” 

This pioneering trial aims to answer some of these questions and establish for the first time, safety and an appropriate dose range of an anti-TB compound for the pediatric population. 

DLSHSI, in partnership with its dedicated team of doctors, nurses, laboratory specialits and all other staff, hopes to contribute valuable information that the TB community may use to finally address this urgent health problem.

One La Salle Relief Drive: Yolanda (Update 5)

Update 1 : 11 November 2013, 04:25 PM - Added details for De La Salle University - Dasmariñas and University of Saint La Salle.

Update 2  :  12 November 2013, 12:20 PM - Added details for De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. 

Update 3  :  14 November 2013, 4:22 PM - Updated bank details of USLS and added De La Salle Health Sciences Institute information.

Update 4  :  19 November 2013, 10:27 PM - Updated details of DLSL relief ops and added  De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale  - ONLUS information.

Update 5  :  2 December 2013, 2:11 PM - Added  La Salle University relief operation details.

The Philippine Lasallian Family is banding together once again for relief operations for our fellow Filipinos who were affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda. Various La Salle Schools have begun taking in donations and volunteers.

Monetary Donations

For cash and check donations, you may deposit to any of the following accounts at any branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) Bank (NOT RCBC Savings):

Account Name: De La Salle Brothers, Inc. - Yolanda

  • Peso Account: 1296-714778
  • US Dollar Account:  8296-001156
     Swift Code: RCBC PHMM

We request you to email the validated deposit slip to bee.cruz@delasalle.ph for proper acknowledgment and issuance of official receipt. You may also opt to fax it to +63 2 721 5049.

For more information, you may contact Keane Palatino (+63 917 500 5323) or Gladstone Cuarteros (+63 917 843 9468). 

Below are specific details of the relief drives of the La Salle Schools:

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

DLSZ is accepting relief donations at Gate 2, 3. & 7. Preferably rice, noodles, canned goods, bottles water & mats. For cash donations for relief & post rehabilitation: Please deposit to the school's account below and send a scanned copy of the deposit slip to lesacasr@dlszobel.edu.ph and jacintojn@dlszobel.edu.ph for proper acknowledgment.

  • Account Name: De La Salle Santiago Zobel School
  • Bank Address: Union Bank of the Philippines, Ayala Alabang Branch
  • Peso Account: 018030006691
  • US Dollar Account: 018101009418

Please call or text Mr. Jayjay Jacinto at +63 917 859 7602 and Ms. Evangeline De Peralta at +63 917 563 8870 for queries. 

De La Salle University

We are asking Lasallian for donations. This can be done through any of the following means:

For in-campus donation (cash or in-kind):

Deposit it through the DLSU Cashier. Inform them to credit your donations to the DLSU Relief Fund (Acct # 600-135). Please do not forget to send one copy of the official receipt to Ms. Jan Trampe of COSCA for proper acknowledgement. 

Send all of your in-kind donations to COSCA.

For off-campus donation (peso):

You may go to any UCPB Branch and deposit to:
Account Name: De La Salle University
Account Number: 120-1147119

For off-campus donation (dollars):

  • Account Name: De La Salle University
  • Account Number: 01-120-300035-8
  • Swift Code: UCPBHMM

For web-based donation:

Visit www.globalgiving.org
On the donor search, type in Philippines Disaster Relief (project # 3916)
Make sure you click on the Philippine Disaster Relief Project being implemented by De La Salle University. You may use this facility for your credit and debit cards donations.

For more inquiries, please contact Mr. Joseph Rosal, Coordinator for Community Engagement, COSCA at +63 2 525 4267 or local 147. 

La Salle Green Hills

La Salle Green Hills will be accepting monetary donations starting Monday, 11 November, for the victims of super typhoon "Yolanda". Kindly course your donations to the Lasallian Mission Office or the Accounting Office. For check donations, please make it payable to LA SALLE GREEN HILLS - CALAMITY FUND. For more information, you may contact Mr. Eugene Young of the LSGH Lasallian Mission Office at +63 2 721 2000 local 350.

De La Salle Araneta University

DLSAU is accepting monetary donations for the victims of super typhoon Yolanda. Please see bank details below:

  • Bank of Commerce
  • Account name: De La Salle Araneta University
  • Account number: 001-00-000868-7

Kindly email your deposit slip to Mr. RJ Angeles at raejyn.angeles@dlsau.delasalle.ph or fax it at +63 2 330 9125.

University of St. La Salle

USLS is accepting donations (food, water, clothes, medicine) and cash.

Drop-off Centers:

  • Gate 2 Security Office (Open 24/7)
  • Balayan
  • Center for External Relations
  • Institute for Negros Development
  • Office for Student Affairs
  • Vocations Office
  • IS - Community Services Centers

USLS has set up a special bank account with BPI (La Salle branch) for Yolanda typhoon victims.

  • Account name: University of St La Salle Relief Fund
  • Bank of the Philippine Islands: 3341-001209

For inquiries, please call +63 34 434 6100 local 218, 122, or 133.

De La Salle Lipa

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De La Salle Lipa is accepting donations in cash and in kind, below are the details.

Donation in cash may be done through the following:

For Peso Account

  • Bank: Union Bank
  • Account Name: De La Salle Lipa, Inc.
  • Account Number: 002720003196
  • SWIFT Code: UBPHPHMM

 For Dollar Account

  • Bank: Philippine National Bank
  • Account Name: De La Salle Lipa, Inc.
  • Account Number: 432-704036-2
  • SWIFT Code: PNBMPHMM

Cash donations may be also be made through the following:

  • DLSL’s Cashiers, Student Activity Office, and the Community Involvement Office. An acknowledgement receipt will be issued.
  • Mission and Mass collections at the Capilla De San Juan Bautista De La Salle. 

 The following donation in kind may be dropped off at the College Lobby.

  1. Rice
  2. Ready-to-eat food (no-cook/no-heat, possibly in foil pack)
  3. Canned goods
  4. Biscuits
  5. Toiletries (bath soap, toothbrush, and toothpaste)
  6. Candles

 For inquiries, please call 043 756-5555 local 277 or 317 or call 981-1133 or 981-1177.

De La Salle University-Dasmariñas

The Lasallian Community Development Center (LCDC) is knocking on the hearts of the Lasallian community to extend aid to calamity victims.

The LCDC will be accepting donations from Mondays through Thursdays (8am - 6pm) and Fridays (8am - 5pm). The following donations will be accepted:

  1. Food items  such as canned goods, noodles, coffee, sugar, milk, water and other    instant food and drinks (cup noodles, biscuits/bread, energy drink, chocolate/milk drink, etc)
  2. old clothes, specifically children's clothes
  3. blankets, sleeping mat (banig)
  4. medicine

For cash donations, you may deposit to:

  • Account Name: DLSU-Dasmariñas
  • Bank of the Philippine Islands 
  • Account No: 0961 - 0041 - 44 

 

Please scan the validated deposit slip and send via email to bcnarvaez@dlsud.edu.ph. For your queries, you may contact us at +63 46 481 1939 or +63 46 481 1900 local 3068 or e-mail at lcdc@dlsud.edu.ph

De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde

DLS-CSB is setting up facilities to generate donations for the survivors of the super typhoon. Donation centers are up in the lobby areas of our three campuses.

For those donating in kind, used clothes and noodles are not priority items for now.

Below is a list of preferred relief goods:

  • Ready-to eat food (items that do not need heating or cooking to be consumed)
  • Bottled water
  • Canned goods
  • Biscuits
  • Rice
  • Toiletries (bath soap, toothbrush, toothpaste)
  • Sanitary napkins
  • Detergent soaps
  • Mats
  • Blankets

Cash donations may now be made through bank transfer. To donate, please use the following account information.

For peso remittances:

  • Account Name: Lasallian Educational Innovators Foundation (De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde), Inc.
  • Banco de Oro (BDO) Savings Account No: 4580243334

For dollar remittances:

  • Account Name: Lasallian Educational Innovators Foundation (De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde), Inc.
  • United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) FCD No: 011203000139

The College is also accepting cash donations from 9am to 4pm at the following offices:

  • Taft Campus – CLM Office
  • AKIC Campus – CLM Office
  • SDA Campus – LMSL Office

DLS-CSB personnel may also donate through iPLEDGE which allows monetary donations through salary deduction.

Counseling services are available to Lasallians who are affected by the typhoon. You may go to the Center for Counseling Services from 9am to 5pm.

Students and personnel who wish to volunteer may sign up at the Center for Social Action.

For inquiries, please call the Center for Social Action Volunteers at +63 2 526-7441 local 258 or 266.

De La Salle Health Sciences Institute

DLSHSI Social Action Office is accepting cash donations through the following offices:

  • Lasallian Formation & Social Action Office (4th Floor, Old CM Bldg.)
  • Lasallian Mission & Linkages (Rm. 8109, Ground Floor, Wang Bldg.)
  • Hospital Information Office (Lobby, Bldg. 30

You may also deposit directly to the bank account below:

  • Banco de Oro (BDO) Aguinaldo Highway Branch
  • Account Name: De La Salle Health Sciences Institute
  • Savings Account No: 4300244165

For check donations, please make the check/s payable to Hermano (San) Miguel Febres Cordero Medical Education Foundation, Inc.

Kindly fax the deposit slip and reply form to +63 2 988 3100 local 8029. You may also call DLSHSI for pick up of cash donations within Metro Manila or Cavite.

 De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale - ONLUS

With the devastation of super typhoon Haiyan, the Lasallian community is coming together to offer assistance to our fellow Brothers, associates, friends and families. The Brothers report considerable need for both immediate support, in the form of food and water supplies, as well as long-term support for reconstruction in damaged classrooms.

Individuals and groups who wish to financially assist in helping our schools and communities restore operations can make a donation to De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale - ONLUS:

  • Banca Popolare di Sondrio
  • IBAN for €: T52 R056 9603 2070 00007241X70
  • IBAN for $: IT10 M056 9603 207V ARUS 0007241
  • SWIFT: POSOIT22
  • Reason: EMERGENCY PHILIPPINES – HAIYAN


or through PayPal via our USA affiliate La Salle International Foundation (http://www.lasalleinternational.org). All funds collected will go towards educational, health and humanitarian relief for the Philippines. (http://www.lasalle.org/en/2013/11/lasallians-respond-to-typhoon-haiyan/)

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LSU Institutional Concerns Office is accepting cash donations through the following offices:

  • Research, Extension , Alumni & Linkages Office (Ground Floor, La Salle Building)
  • Institutional Social Concerns Office (AC 21, 2nd  Floor, Arts Centet Bldg.)
  • Information Office (LSU Entrance Lobby)

You may also deposit directly to the bank account below:

  • Account Name: La Salle University Ozamiz, Inc. – Yolanda
  • Account Number: 003190006053

Kindly send electronic copy of your deposit slip  to isco137@gmail.com for proper acknowledgment and issuance of official receipt. You may also opt to fax it to +63 521 1010.

For more information, you may contact  Dr. Rezyl R. Mallorca (+63 926 339 1818) or Anilou Dilao (+63 927 715 7062 or +63 920 746 6686). 

We also accept the following relief goods:

  1. Canned goods
  2. Rice
  3. Bottled water
  4. Toiletries
  5. Biscuits
  6. Mats
  7. Blankets 

One La Salle Relief Drive (Maring) Updates

De La Salle Health Sciences Institute

The relief efforts of the school and its partners were able to reach the following barangays: Brgy Zone 1 Dasmariñas City; Barangays 2 & 4 Ligtong, Rosario; Sasahan, Naic; Tabon, Kawit; Sunny Brooke, General Trias; San Lorenzo Ruiz Pulo, Cavite City; nine different barangays of Binakayan; San Antonio, Noveleta; Guyam Munti, Indang; Kiko Rosa Creekside, General Trias; Pabahay Creekside; and Bacao 1 & 2. A total of 1,605 families received relief packs. Php 17,692.90, 28 Boxes of Water, 3 Boxes of Groceries, and 20 Boxes of clothes were also endorsed to St. Peter’s Parish for ditrubution around Cavite City. 

The Medical Mission was able serve 306 households, consisting of 654 patients. Ten medical doctors, three interns, ten nurses, four PGNT’s, eight housekeepers,

four pharmacists, and other hospital employees, teachers, students from Colleges of Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery, Rehabilitation Sciences and Medical Radiation Technology volunteered for this effort. Another 50 volunteers from Our Lady of Fatima Parish also pitched in.

Our sincerest thanks to all our donors, medical team, SPC Sisters, DLSHSI and PPVR volunteers! Special thanks to our silent and dedicated supporters, without whom our relief operation would not have materialized:

  • personnel from Admitting, Information and Cashier’s Sections who accepted and recorded donations;
  • our Security Guards who helped receive and protect the goods;
  • our house keepers who helped in the loading and unloading of goods and our drivers who made transportation of people and goods possible.

De La Salle Lipa

De La Salle Lipa Community Involvement Office, in partnership with the Student Coordinating Board and Student Government, spearheaded the relief operations for the victims of Typhoon Maring and Habagat. Served areas are as follows:

  • Evacuation Center, Brgy. 10 Lipa City
  • Brgy. Halang, Lipa City
  • Brgy. San Roque, San Pedro Laguna
  • Brgy. Cuyab, San Pedro Laguna
  • Brgy. Landayan, San Pedro Laguna
  • Evacuation Center (old municipal hall) San Pedro, Laguna
  • Cavite
  • Brgy. Pansol, Calamba Laguna
  • Brgy. Palanas, Lemery Batangas

Goods donated: 1,199 bags; 88 mats; 100 blankets; 500 pcs bottled water. Served families: 1,299.

 

One La Salle Relief Drive (Maring) Updates

DLSZ

By 23 August, De La Salle Santiago Zobel School (DLSZ) has distributed relief packs around Muntinlupa, Las Piñas, and Parañaque and helped over 3,000 families. 150 students, 70 faculty and staff, and 17 parents, friends and alumni volunteered in the relief efforts.

DLSU-D

The LCDC of De La Salle University-Dasmariñas reported that, as of 27 August, they were able to help 1,291 families in eight areas (Dasmariñas, Rosario, Naic, Noveleta, Kawit, Gen Trias, Cavite City, Indang). DLSU-D wishes to acknowledge DLSZ for their support.

DLS-CSB

As of 23 August, there were a total of 167 volunteers from the school. DLS-CSB also reached out to five of its neighboring barangays (Brgys. 43, 728, 730, 746 and 760) and delivered a total of 595 relief packs.

DLSHSI

On 21 August: Php 5000 worth of relief goods were given to the families of Barangay Zone 1, Dasmarinas City, courtesy of Dr. Charles Yu.

On 22 August, we went to Ligtong, Rosario and delivered around 500 packs of relief goods ( 2 kilos of rice, bottled water, various groceries and clothes/blankets) to 261 families in Barangays 2 & 4. Said areas were referred to by the Social Action Office of the Diocese, in coordination with the Barangay Officials who guided us along coastal lines of said barangays. Student volunteers from the four Colleges, academic staff, hospital employees, faculty members and PPRV volunteers helped prepare and distribute the goods.

As of 23 August, DLSZ has turned relief goods, approximately for more than 500 households, to be donated to calamity victims in Naic, Cavite.

On 26 August, a medical mission and relief operation was held in Binakayan, Kawit, Cavite in coordination with Our Lady of Fatima Parish. A joint program of the Medical Center and Social Action Office.