The Caribbean Voice backs call for integrated health care to tackle mental health
From Guyana Times The Draft Mental Health Strategy of Guyana 2015-2020 has confirmed that there are minimal numbers of general health human resources with the necessary mental health competencies to provide mental health services at any level of general healthcare…
Veteran loses custody of children for using medical marijuana
By Cody Fenwick From Care 2 Petitions Tens of thousands of Care2 petitioners have signed a petition asking Kansas officials to return a veteran’s children who were taken away by Child Protective Service. This case is particularly heartbreaking, and reveals…
Air Operations Unit assists with medical evacuation from Little Cayman
CORRECTION to below From RCIPS: The medevac was from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman, but requested through Faith Hospital on Cayman Brac From RCIPS Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:28 PM Just before noon on Saturday, 20 February, Faith Hospital on…
SLC 2015: Media and industry can deliver workplace safety
By Ginger Christ From EHS Today Industry and media need to work together to save lives. Often, industry and the media are at odds. It’s a tenuous relationship, that which exists between watchdog reporters and company and government executives. Companies typically…
Olwomen story of the week
10 ways you’re harming your immune system By Jenny Smith Our body has a natural defense mechanism which is used to protect the body from the external pathogens that try to harm the body. It consists of different fighter cells…
The truth about sex after 50/Why making love may help to fight dementia
The truth about sex after 50 From Reader’s Digest Judging from the images the popular media puts forth, you’d think sex was only for twenty somethings. Nothing is further from the truth. Sex at midlife and beyond is a subject…
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Dominica rejects use of genetically modified mosquitoes
From Caribbean360 ROSEAU, Dominica, Wednesday February 17, 2016 – Dominica wants no part of the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the vector that carries the Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya viruses. Minister of Health Dr….
Tears of joy [for Health City Cayman]
BY ANIKA RICHARDS From Jamaica Observer Dad thanks Observer, Health City Cayman for saving his precious 6-year-old daughter EVEROL Drummond had high praises for the Jamaica Observer and Health City Cayman Islands yesterday, as he recounted how a burden was…
Despite threats, thousands join drive to end polio in Pakistan, a last bastion of the disease
Reuters From Thomson Reuters Foundation KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 (Reuters) – More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite continuing…
Environment in focus as Zika spreads across the Caribbean
From telesur The mosquito-borne virus has been confirmed in 22 territories in the region. Countries across the Caribbean have launched massive national clean up campaigns. Caribbean countries with no confirmed cases of the Zika virus are promoting community control to…
