Copa America Centenario to host Official Press Conference Friday June 24 in New York City ahead of historic final
CONMEBOL President Alejandro Dominguez, CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani and LOC Chairman Sunil Gulati to Speak ahead of Historic Final between Argentina and Chile at MetLife Stadium NEW YORK (June 23, 2016) – Ahead of the 2016 Copa America Centenario Final…
WHO rejects call for Olympics to be moved due to Zika
From Newsmax The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday rejected a call for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved or postponed due to the threat posed by a large outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil. Responding to a call…
Cayman Islands Premier’s World Health Day Message
World Health Day Message Minister of Home Affairs, Health and Culture, Hon. Alden McLaughlin, JP Thursday, 7th April, 2016 Today the Cayman Islands joins the global community as we observe World Health Day. It is a global health awareness day…
First-ever Universal Health Coverage Day urges “Health for all – everywhere”
By: PAHO/WHO, In Latin America and the Caribbean, 30% of the population lacks access to health care for financial reasons—a situation PAHO member countries have pledged to change. Washington, D.C., 12 December 2014 (PAHO/WHO) — The Pan American Health Organization/World…
World Health Organization mistakenly forwards email to BuzzFeed saying ‘BuzzFeed is banned’
By Brian Ries From Mashable BuzzFeed, it seems, is on the World Health Organization’s blacklist. The New York news organization found out the hard way on Wednesday when a WHO staffer mistakenly included a BuzzFeed reporter on an internal email….
More than 7 suicides per hour in the Americas/Caribbean says new PAHO report
From Pan American Health Organization Mexico City, 22 October 2014 (PAHO/WHO) — Some 65,000 people take their own lives in the Americas each year—more than 7 per hour—according to a report released today by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),…
Will the Ebola virus go airborne?
By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American From Nature.com Experts say the possibility remains remote. Could Ebola go airborne? That’s the fear set off last week by a New York Times op-ed entitled “What We’re Afraid to Say about Ebola” from…
The Ebola virus has spread to Senegal as the deadliest outbreak in history gets worse
By Abby Ohlheiser and Abby Phillip From The Washington Post As the Ebola outbreak worsens — with the death toll spiraling and the World Health Organization warning that 20,000 people could eventually be infected — another West African country has…
In the Cayman Islands expect to live until 82
Actually, the Cayman Islands Economics and Statistics Office and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development have just released statistics revealing that, based on 2013 figures, the Cayman Islands life expectancy at birth is 82.3 years! Bad news for males…
Resist urge to control e-cigarettes’, WHO told
By Jane Dreaper Health correspondent, BBC News Some doctors argue it is too early to know whether benefits outweigh potential risks, as Jane Dreaper reports A letter signed by more than 50 researchers and public health specialists is urging the…
