Skin bleaching a growing problem in Jamaica

Date:4/11/2011  By:Jamaica Observer

Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she's not worried about skin cancer.

Beauty experts say doctors, lawyers among persons lightening skin

Date:3/29/2011  By:Jamaica Observer

JAMAICA’S leading beauty experts say affluent professional women are among Jamaicans who bleach their skin, putting to rest the assumption that it was only people from the country’s inner-cities who are engaged in the controversial practice.

Nurses challenged to speak up

Date:3/2/2011  By:Nation News

The challenges of a weakened health desk at CARICOM is a source of concern for Minister of Health Donville Inniss.

GROUND BREAKING MEDICAL OPERATION AT GENERAL HOSPITAL

Date:2/16/2011  By:Spice Islander

Medical history was made in Grenada on Thursday, February 10. The country became the first of the Windward Islands to ever undertake a total Knee Replacement Surgery on its soil.

Caribbean Swine Flu Rate Pushes Past 2200 Mark

Date:11/13/2009  By:Caribbean World News

The number of H1N1 or swine flu victims in the Caribbean continues to rise quietly even as the Center for Disease Control says the death toll in the U.S. is close to the 4,000 mark.

Delegate pushes for increases in USVI Medicaid under Health Reform

Date:8/5/2009  By:Washington USA

As the Congress and the nation grapple with the fine points of health reform, US Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen and her territorial colleagues are pushing initiatives that will significantly increase the amount of federal funding the USVI will receive for Medicaid.

Cardiology could drive Barbados medical tourism

Date:7/31/2009  By:Joy-Ann Gill

Barbados will seek to capitalise on the billion dollar industry of medical tourism. This assurance was given on Wednesday evening by Minister of Tourism, Richard Sealy, as he addressed the 24th Annual Caribbean Cardiology Conference in Barbados.

Jamaica confirms two cases of Swine Flu

Date:5/31/2009  By:CMC

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Health officials in Jamaica have confirmed that the island has recorded two cases of the deadly Influenza A (H1N1) virus, commonly called Swine Flu.

Swine flu reaches Caribbean

Date:5/14/2009  By: 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the number of laboratory-confirmed swine flu cases has reached 5,251 in 30 countries around the world, with 61 people having died from the disease.

Penises breaking during 'rough sex'

Date:4/21/2009  By:Jamaica Star

Representatives of some hospitals revealed that more men have been fracturing their penises in recent months than any other time in Jamaica. "It's possibly daggerin' people tend to have a predisposition to rough sex," the surgeon said.