On 3 November 2021, the Technical Advisory Group for Emergency Use Listing listed the Bharat Biotech BBV152 COVAXIN vaccine against COVID-19 for emergency use. The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) has issued interim policy recommendations for the use of the Bharat Biotech BBV152 COVAXIN vaccine. This article provides a summary of those interim … [Read more...]
Omicron Variant Spikes In Bermuda
Bermuda in the Caribbean is seeing a spike in the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19, new data confirms. At least 16 of Bermuda’s 35 active coronavirus cases are of the Omicron variant, up from just two last week, health officials there have confirmed. The news came as 20 people tested positive among the latest batch of 6,762 test results announced on Monday night. The active cases are all … [Read more...]
US: Cancer mortality fell 27% over the last five decades
Mortality rates among all cancers combined have dropped by 27% since 1971 and by 32% since 1991, when mortality was at its highest. That’s what the American Cancer Society found in its new analysis that compared rates from both years to those of 2019. Mortality in 12 of 15 types individually went down. Cervical and stomach cancer, for instance, saw as much as a 70% decrease. The decline has … [Read more...]
Cayman Islands medical travel progress
The Cayman Islands Department of Planning has given approval to Health City Cayman Islands for the planned US$100 million medical campus and hospital expansion at Camana Bay. The aim is to reduce the number of local citizens traveling off island to receive care. The state-of-the-art Camana Bay medical campus will become the first hospital in the region to offer bone marrow transplantation … [Read more...]
Jamaica: COVID-19 worsens nursing brain drain
A local medical school official has charged that 85 per cent of Jamaica's trained nurses migrate after completing their training and the situation has been made worse by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Executive dean at Caribbean School of Medical Science, Jamaica (CSMSJ) Dr Neville Graham made the claim at the institution's first graduation ceremony recently, as he charged that the world is in … [Read more...]
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