School entry health screening continues
The Public Health Department is reminding parents that school entry screening continues and all students entering government or private schools for the first time are required to have health screenings. This includes students entering the reception programme. This must be…
Study: skipping breakfast could increase risk of heart attack
By Mary Beth Quirk from Consumerist This is usually where I’d say that my wise, older relative once told me the benefits of doing such and such a thing, but not this time. I always say: I don’t skip the…
New Yorkers may continue drinking enormous sodas for now
By Dan Amira From New York Mag Mayor Bloomberg’s attempt to prohibit certain large sugary drinks from being sold by certain city purveyors was dealt a blow this morning when an appellate court upheld a previous decision — by a…
Flesh-eating maggots found in British woman’s head after holiday
From John Hall The Independent UK 27-year-old Rochelle Harris had just returned from a holiday in Peru ‘A writhing mass of flesh-eating maggots’: Doctors find larvae inside British woman’s ear after she complained of headaches and bizarre scratching sounds inside…
MoH, HSA & CINICO joint statement on air ambulance services
The following is a Joint Statement by the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Health Services Authority (HSA) and the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company (CINICO) in response to the Auditor General’s Public Interest Report on the Provision of Air Ambulance Services:…
Disease and deception in the Caribbean
By Daniel Colon-Ramos From Aljazeera I first heard of Coral Rosa from a fellow prisoner in the US federal detention centre. Coral Rosa, then seven years old, was born and raised in the seemingly pristine island of Vieques, in Puerto…
98 million Americans were given polio vaccine contaminated with cancer-causing virus, admits CDC
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer, Natural News (NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has once again been caught removing pertinent but indicting information about vaccines from its website. This time it involves the infamous polio…
CICS and HAS new chemotherapy unit signing announced
On Tuesday (30) afternoon, a new Chemotherapy Unit project signing between the Cayman Islands Cancer Society (CICS) and the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) will take place. The Cayman Islands Cancer Society will be renovating the Old Lighthouse School,…
NHS pays THIRTY TIMES more for cod-liver oil than high street cost:
From Jill Reilly Daily Mail UK Capsules being bought for up to £89.50 – Identical versions available to consumers on the high street for just £3.50 Doctors prescribing the fish oil, available in shops, on prescription Chemists are ‘selecting’ which…
Make Your Life Beautiful with Dr Bernie Hanna – Obesity Part 2
From Banana islands info As the Obesity problem increases in The Bahamas, we need to get to the root of the problem. What is the cause of our obesity? What are the issues that we need to address? Some key…
