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Venezuela military to distribute medicine to hospitals
From Caribbean News Service CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov 03 2016 – The Venezuelan Armed Forces are taking control of the distribution of medicine and medical equipment to public hospitals, Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino announced on Wednesday. Gen Padrino said the measure…
Migrant crisis: ‘Hundreds dead’ in shipwrecks off Libya
From BBC More than 200 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa, spokeswoman Carlotta…
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Weeks after hurricane, Haitians struggle for clean water
By David McFadden From Caribbean Life News COTEAUX, Haiti (AP) _ It’s been nearly a month since Hurricane Matthew tore through southern Haiti and people like Kettley Rosier and many of her neighbors still have to spend their meager savings…
CTMH announces visiting specialist Dr. Joel N. Slutsky, MD FACS has relocated to the Cayman Islands
Dr. Joel N. Slutsky, MD FACS, a long time visiting specialist at Chrissie Tomlinson Memorial Hospital (CTMH) has relocated permanently to the Cayman Islands. He has recently become a full-time member of the CTMH team. Dr. Patrick Auman, Administrator for…
Olwomen story of the week
You’re Doing It Wrong! Here’s The Right Way To Wash Your Face By Amy Reid From Olwomen Calling out to all the gorgeous ladies who are reading this, were you ever familiar with the fact that you could be washing…
New evidence suggests a quarter of the world’s population has latent tuberculosis
By Peter Dodd and Rein Houben, The Conversation From Business Insider In rich countries, tuberculosis is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, the disease that claimed Keats, Poe, Chopin. But globally, TB is today the number one…
Taxed Off: Tax-exempt hospitals still go offshore
By David Robinson , From Press Connects Health care reporter David Robinson discusses the growing land value of New York state hospitals and how some are investing in “murky” offshore investments. Part of Taxed Off, a USA Today Network investigation….
Back to Nature Foods recall in Cayman Islands
From Foster’s Food Fair November 1st, 2016 Foster’s Food Fair – IGA would like to announce that Back to Nature Foods, LLC is voluntarily recalling four (4) products because those products contain chocolate purchased from a third party supplier which…
Cayman Islands Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Dress for a Cause Day
Government workers, members of the public and the Acting Deputy Governor, Stran Bodden, dressed for a cause on Friday (28 October 2016). Civil service staffers wore pink to mark the ongoing Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign by the Lions Club…
Florida Hospital first to implant new FDA-approved Sutureless Aortic Valve
Miami, Fla. (October 31, 2016) – Palmetto General Hospital is the first hospital in Florida and third in the United States to commercially implant a sutureless aortic valve in a patient with heart valve disease through a newly FDA-approved, minimally…
