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Everyone needs to stop ignoring the real toxins that are linked to autism
By Alycia Halladay, STAT From Business Insider Andrew Wakefield’s notorious and now discredited research on autism and vaccines in 1998 triggered a surge of worry about vaccine safety. Since then, questions about a purported connection between autism and vaccines have…
Poor, minority neighborhoods have more tobacco-selling shops per capita
By Carolyn Crist From Reuters (Reuters Health) – Neighborhoods with a high proportion of black residents or high poverty tend to have the greatest density of stores selling cigarettes and tobacco products, U.S. researchers say. Poverty explained some of the…
The Editor Speaks: A common cold knocked me out AGAIN!
I have been battling with a common cold – sneezing and coughing – since last Friday (10) and finally yesterday (Wed 15) I succumbed. It knocked me out – unconscious. For hours! You will have noticed there was no Editorial….
Formation of Caribbean Public Health Agency
From St George’s University In response to concerns from Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member governments regarding the efficiency of the existing decentralizedblicy, formerly the 61st President of the World Health Assembly and President of the Pan American Health Organization, announced the…
PAHO warns of tobacco epidemic in the Caribbean
From Jamaica Observer WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The director of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, has warned about what she described as the tobacco epidemic in the Americas, including the Caribbean, saying that though the…
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US Mass. health officials continue warnings about Zika
By Gerry Tuoti, GateHouse News Service Going on a tropical getaway this winter? As vacationers prepare to flock to Caribbean beaches to escape the Massachusetts winter, state health officials are reminding them to be vigilant of the Zika virus. “It’s…
Caribbean could be first Region to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV – PANCAP Director
From Kaieteur News The Caribbean is on track to ending mother-to-child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This is according to Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), Mr. Dereck Springer. In fact, Springer is…
Emergency nursing programme launched – first in Caribbean
By Delicia Haynes Guyana GIS, Ministry of Public Health, News GINA, GUYANA, Monday, November 21, 2016 Twenty (20) nurses will be the first to be trained, through the Emergency Nursing Programme that was launched today. They are to receive a…
Cayman Islands Premier’s World Diabetes Day Message 2016
Premier and Minister for Health Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA World Diabetes Day Message 2016 ________________________________________ 14 November 2016 As we mark World Diabetes Day 2016, it is a fitting opportunity to arm ourselves against a disease suffered by…
American Red Cross partners with American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine on academic service learning Initiative
Program Will Mobilize Students to Deliver Health Education to Local Communities CUPECOY, St. Maarten–(BUSINESS WIRE)–American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) and the American Red Cross (Red Cross) have established a partnership to provide opportunities for AUC medical…
