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Notice Auditor General’s NBP Report Release Postponed The press briefing scheduled for 11:00 am on Monday (10) morning relating to the performance audit report on the Management of the Nation Building Programme will be postponed to a yet to be…
Spitting armadillos blamed for Florida’s emerging leprosy problem
By Jessica Firger From Newseek Health officials in Florida are urging residents to keep away from armadillos, which they suspect are the cause of an increasing number of cases of leprosy in the state. According to local media reports, nine…
Cayman Islands Health Ministry replies to Quality of Care Review on road death victim
The Ministry of Health and Culture is making progress with recommendations in a report concerning the quality of care review of emergency medicine services in May 2013 that responded to a fatal accident on Grand Cayman. The report was done…
Cayman Islands paramedic response deviated from established protocols in fatal accident
The Following is taken from “Quality of Care Review of Emergency Medicine Services Response to Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision Involving Zak Maun Quappe (deceased)” Prepared for Ministry of Home Affairs, Health and Government, Cayman Islands By Dan Cass, BSc, MD,…
Olwomen story of the week
15 relieving home remedies for mosquito bites By Jenny Smith From Olwomen ‘Close the windows else mosquitos will enter the house’, ‘wear long sleeves while going to the park else you can get a mosquito bite’ and ‘moisturize your skin…
Unsanitary growing conditions lead to partial import ban on Mexican Cilantro
By Ashlee Kieler From Consumerist Bad news for cilantro lovers: U.S. officials have implemented a partial ban on imports of the herb after health officials linked hundreds of illnesses to cilantro growing in feces- and toilet paper-covered fields in Mexico….
An iPhone feature most people never find is doing something amazing for the visually impaired
By Steve Kovach, Tech Insider From Business Insider You wouldn’t expect Luis Perez to be an amateur photographer. Perez, a higher education learning consultant in Florida, has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that essentially gives him tunnel vision. He only has…
HSA supports World Breastfeeding Week in Cayman Islands
From Cayman Islands Health Services Authority The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) is pleased to be able to do its part during the 2015 World Breastfeeding Week, which takes place from August 1- 7, and supports this very important…
Smoking cannabis is more dangerous for MEN
By Lizzie Parry for MailOnline Drug is ‘four times more likely to trigger psychosis in males than females’, experts warn Gender difference between cannabis use and psychotic episodes explored Study: Male users are four times more likely to suffer illness…
Vanderbilt researcher publishes study of chikungunya virus
From Brentwood Home Page In the current issue of “Cell Host and Microbe,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s James Crowe, M.D., and his team report the first large panel of antibody treatments against the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus. There have been almost…
