Health

The end of the COVID-19 pandemic "is in sight," said World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. According to the Director General at his weekly press conference,…

The health authority indicated that the stigmas surrounding the disease keep the vulnerable population away from the necessary information, tests and medical attention. The Pan American Health…

Washington D.C., 7 September 2022 (PAHO) – With the Americas now accounting for the highest numbers of monkeypox cases in the world, and COVID-19 remaining a “significant threat” to the region,…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, September 6, 2022 (SKNIS) – Prime Minister and Minister of Health, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew sat down with the management team within the Ministry of Health earlier today…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 1, 2022 (SKNIS): Prime Minister Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew, while in Bridgetown, Barbados, for the AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022, which is taking…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (August 24, 2022) - -VIVOTEK, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of ICT products, has gifted 17 facial recognition temperature scanners to the Ministry of Health and Gender Affairs in…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 15, 2022 (SKNIS): The addition of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at the Joseph Nathaniel France (JNF) General Hospital will significantly add to the provision…

Source: Jamaica Gleaner Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the United States and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it…

NEW YORK (AP): The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with…

Following the passage of the amended Medical Practitioners Bill The way is now cleared for non-nationals to practice medicine in Guyana with the passage of the Medical Practitioners Amendment Bill…

KINGSTON (CMC): A new report on the global HIV response released on Wednesday shows that during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises, progress against the HIV pandemic…

Article by Emmanuel Joseph Source ; Barbados Today The region’s main public health agency has put residents of Barbados and other Caribbean states on alert for two new highly-contagious COVID-19…

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday advised men at risk of catching monkeypox to consider reducing their sexual partners “for the moment” following the United Nations…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 25, 2022 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis’ Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hazel Laws, said that there are no reported cases of monkeypox in the twin-island Federation as of Monday,…

Source: Barbados Today As Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states seek to fight against COVID-19 disinformation, the Barbadian head of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) said she has been…