Although the H1N1 influenza (flu) virus is often referred to as the swine flu, that is no longer the case. The association was made because when it was first detected in 2009, the virus was similar to those found in pigs, and persons who caught it...
Jamaica is now the second country in the English-speaking Caribbean to have an internationally accredited laboratory with the full capabilities to test for any type of disease that may pose a threat to public health.On Monday, the newly upgraded...
NEWCOMER ALANDO Terrelonge snatched victory for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from incumbent Arnaldo Brown of the People’s National Party (PNP), winning the East Central St Catherine constituency with 6,214 votes to Brown’s 5,735 votes...
Christopher Tufton can finally exhale.After being out in the wilderness for four years, the one-time member of parliament (MP) for St Elizabeth South Western has finally found his way back to the House of Representatives, this time as MP for St...
Not taking any chances, the Government has launched a multi-ministerial, multimillion-dollar approach to tackling the possible outbreak of the Zika virus (ZIKV) and controlling the vector responsible for its transmission.With a proposed budget of...
John* had given up all hope of ever being able to perform sexually again. At 53 years old, with chronic diabetes, for over five years, he had tried everything to help with his erectile dysfunction (ED), and within the last year and a half, nothing...
Suffering from erectile dysfunction for more than five years because of chronic diabetes, a 53-year-old man is now springing with joy, thanks to what is deemed a ‘miracle cure for ED’. Some six months after undergoing Jamaica’s...
Describing as smart and reasonable the move by the Ministry of Health to advise women to delay getting pregnant because of the potential impact of the Zika virus on newborns, Dr Myrton Smith, president of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), is...
Hundreds of youth flocked to the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston yesterday eager to play their part in preventing the zika virus (ZIKV) from crippling Jamaica the way chikungunya (chik-V) did over a year ago.In fact, the Ministry of...
The Ministry of Health is employing 1,000 youth workers as part of its preparedness and response to the Zika virus (ZIKV), which is now spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean region.The workers are being recruited through the parish...
Nonsense, completely unfair and offensive.Those are the strong words of condemnation from the Islamic Council of Jamaica (ICOJ) on United States (US) presidential hopeful Donald Trump's call to ban all Muslims from entering the country."It is...
The zika virus is not to be taken lightly because if contracted, it can create serious complications, including death, especially for pregnant women and infants, warns the Ministry of Health.Although to date there are no confirmed cases of the zika...
The Zika virus (ZIKV) continues to spread across the Caribbean region. As of December 1 nine countries have reported cases of the mosquito borne disease. Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname, and Venezuela...
Blaming politics for the reason Jamaica's health sector is in its diseased state, Dr Alfred Dawes, immediate past president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), has sounded a defiant call to action for Jamaicans to unite to rescue the...
Describing Jamaica as a "failed nation, not a failed state", Dr Alfred Dawes, immediate past president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), said the time was long overdue for Jamaica to break the back of tribal politics, which has...
The private sector is applauding the "swift" action taken by newly appointed Health Minister Horace Dalley in holding hospital managers accountable for the tragic circumstances that led to the deaths of 19 premature babies.One week on the job and...
The boards of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) have resigned at the request of the newly appointed Health Minister Horace Dalley. Dalley told The Gleaner Monday evening that the...
Unacceptable and unsatisfactory.That's the response of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's actions in addressing the tragic deaths of 19 premature babies at two of the island's major hospitals."We...
HAVING RESISTED several calls for him to resign as Jamaica’s health minister, the embattled Dr Fenton Ferguson was yesterday shuffled out of the ministry by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, and replaced with Horace Dalley. Ferguson, a...
NO SURPRISES. That is what one doctor told The Gleaner yesterday, following the eventual releaseof the much-anticipated audit report of the four regional health authorities (RHAs)."I got a chance to look through them briefly when they were posted on...
Describing as a tragedy the deaths of 19 premature babies who were infected with klebsiella and serratia bacteria during four outbreaks at two of the island's major public hospitals, Ambassador Paola Amadei, head of delegation for the European Union...
Two of the country's leading private-sector organisations are demand-ing greater accountability for the tragic deaths of 19 premature babies, after they were infected during a bacterial outbreak at two of Jamaica's major public hospitals.Both the...
ALTHOUGH FAR from getting the salary increase they wanted, the nurses have been appeased by the allowances and non-monetary grants they will receive underthe wage agreement they signedyesterday, finally ending the standoff between themselves and the...
The Office of the Public Defender has issued subpoenas for three of the University Hospital of the West Indies' (UHWI) top heads to answer to the circumstances under which 12 premature babies died from bacterial infections there over a five-month...
Two of the country's attorneys-at-law believe the parents of the babies who died or were infected with the klebsiella and serratia bacteria at two major public hospitals since June could take legal action against the relevant authorities. And one...
