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Connell: Screenings to tackle cases of high blood pressure

Kendy

May 17, 2022

The Heart and Stroke Foundation, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies (UWI), will be hosting a high blood pressure screening event ...

Health, News

Mottley: Tax intended to save our people

Kendy

April 2, 2022

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has doubled down on her decision to increase taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages by 100 per cent, saying that to do oth...

Health, Regional

PAHO issues guidelines on efficient use of oxygen

Kendy

March 16, 2022

Washington – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has issued guidelines to Caribbean and other countries to improve oxygen use in health care f...

Millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses destroyed in England

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COVID-19 pill 89 per cent effective, says Pfizer

Kendy

November 5, 2021

Washington - An experimental pill to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) developed by the United States company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or de...

Health, Regional

Browne urges Antiguans to get vaccinated

Adriel

September 10, 2021

ST JOHN’S – Prime Minister Gaston Browne stopped just short of announcing that his government would be implementing a mandatory vaccination policy for...

Health, World

Biden mandates widespread COVID-19 shots, tests

Adriel

September 10, 2021

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden took aim on Thursday at vaccine resistance in the United States, announcing policies requiring most federal employees...

Health, World

Trial: Malaria sickness could be cut by 70 per cent

Kendy

August 27, 2021

A new approach to protecting young African children from malaria could reduce deaths and illness from the disease by 70 per cent, a study suggests. Gi...

Health

Rain Tree a giant silent doctor

nationnews

May 30, 2019

ANNette maynard-watson “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and...