Health

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging countries to tackle the main driver of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas, including the Caribbean. On World Obesity Day on Saturday, PAHO said front-of-package warning labels, […]

Grenada’s Prime Minister and Parliamentary  Representative for the Constituency of St. David, the Hon. Dickon Mitchell, donated ten (10)  new wheelchairs to the St. David’s Health District on Wednesday. The much-needed durable medical equipment was […]

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – The Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) is warning that dementia in the Caribbean is set to rise by 155 per cent to nearly 750,000 cases by 2050. In a statement, the New […]

ST. GEORGE: The Epidemiology Department of the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Religious Affairs is closely monitoring an active outbreak of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) in the country. Based on its most recent laboratory testing […]

Petite Martinique- The Petite Martinique Health Centre, which services the island’s 600 residents, now has a new examination chair. It was delivered less than one month after a visit to the Centre by teams led […]

Hillsborough, Carriacou- Improved healthcare services are a top transformational agenda for the new NDC administration, and Carriacou and Petite Martinique are not being left out of the development process. The sister isles, which were recently […]

The National Disease Surveillance Unit in the Ministry of  Health, Wellness, and Religious Affairs is aware of, and is closely monitoring reports of the first confirmed case of the monkey pox virus in Jamaica. The […]

Healthcare services in Grenada are being revolutionised with  the addition of a 128-slice CT scanner, which is capable of delivering rapid, accurate,  precise and confident diagnoses, including determining the stages of cancer and complex  cardiac […]