Today Friday, August 18th, 2017
A new project, the first and largest of its kind, is working to reduce the spread of HIV and improve health care for key populations most at risk of and already living with HIV in select Caribbean cou…
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Bajan Reporter • December 16th, 2016 • 0 comments 
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“I need to go to a barber shop!” Rihanna said to laughter. “Not for sex!” she added quickly, wagging her finger and laughing. Harry interjected: “Everybody tells their ha…
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AirBourne • December 4th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida has expanded two of its signature cancer care departments, with the additions of psychosomatic psychiatrists Sylvia Fernandez, M.D., Geetha Nampi…
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Bajan Reporter • November 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
This is THE definitive lecture on our health care situation, and will address not just past and present, but the future, including the issue of QEH maintenance versus a new hospital – it is part…
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Bajan Reporter • November 6th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Marcio Fagundes, M.D., and Michael Chuong, M.D., have joined Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida’s unique and integrated Radiation Oncology department, which will offer both s…
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Bajan Reporter • October 24th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, announced today a partnership with celebrity Chef Cindy Hutson. The star chef, restaurateur, author and now Culinary Ambassador for the In…
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Bajan Reporter • October 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Fitness enthusiasts received a refreshing surprise recently when a leading fund manager “popped up” up at popular exercise spots around the island to encourage them to support the upcoming…
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Bajan Reporter • October 19th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
British-born Barbadian journalist and communications expert, Kim Young, has taken up the post of Policy & Practice Advisor with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Europe. Young …
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Bajan Reporter • October 17th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
A corps of Caribbean nurses will soon be even more skilled at providing care for children afflicted with blood disorders and cancers. Drawn from Barbados, The Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vince…
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Bajan Reporter • October 17th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
A well-known member of the Barbadian mercantile community has put their best foot forward to use their corporate responsibility to make the fight against Breast Cancer that much easier to win… P…
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AirBourne • October 10th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The International Women’s Resource Network (IWRN) is again issuing a STRONG APPEAL to victims and families afflicted by DOMESTIC VIOLENCE to reach out for immediate assistance. According to the …
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Bajan Reporter • September 18th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
Transactional sex by mature men with teenage girls is rising at an alarming rate in Barbados. Ms Bynoe-Sutherland was addressing the second Women’s Health Medical Conference at the 3Ws Oval of t…
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AirBourne • September 12th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Soon a fresh generation of Barbadian nurses will be qualified to care for their fellow Bajans at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The Health Minister of Barbados also explained how a further batch of nur…
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AirBourne • July 31st, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Barbadians are asked to note how elevator numbers 7 and 8, which are located at the back stairs leading to the Accident and Emergency Department, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, are scheduled to b…
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AirBourne • July 3rd, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
The public is asked to note that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Pharmacy Department will be having its monthly staff meeting every third Wednesday of every month, beginning Wednesday 15th June.…
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Bajan Reporter • June 12th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
Thanks to a record number of participants, ICBL is in a position to donate more funds to this year’s beneficiaries. Speaking at the prize presentation and close out press conference, Managing Di…
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AirBourne • May 15th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Even though mornings are not as cool like earlier in the year, thousands braved the heat on National Heroes Day for the 2016 edition of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd. (ICBL) Family Walk an…
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Bajan Reporter • May 1st, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Diabetes affects 1 in 5 adults in Barbados and is a costly disease. From kidney disease to eye disease to amputations it affects the productivity of the country as it cuts down many working people. Mu…
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AirBourne • April 24th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
The leading General Insurance provider and fastest growing Life & Health Insurance company, marked the milestone on Friday April 1st, by making a donation to the HIV/AIDS Foodbank, the first in a …
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Bajan Reporter • April 3rd, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
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Bajan Reporter • April 3rd, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Ward C9 of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) had reconstructive surgery to the tune of a $600,000 renovation in the memory of one of Barbados’ leading evangelists. The Ivy-Viola Williams Founda…
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AirBourne • March 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
A Barbadian Urologist says men have to place pride aside and make possibly uncomfortable health decisions if they want to live and love longer. According to the Urologist, he says there is a tendency …
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AirBourne • February 21st, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic and Telecommunication (TEATT), Ms. I. Ingrid Arrindell and the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Mr. Emil Lee, and respectiv…
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Bajan Reporter • February 21st, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
Over the past year I have become more aware of the prevalence of hypertension in Barbados. Late last year I heard a newscast on the radio one night that spoke about the dangers of high blood pressure …
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Bajan Reporter • February 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Galen, a Roman physician, in the first century was the first to speak about the heart and its two chambers but not until Karl von Vierordt in 1854 devised the sphygmograph, taken from the Greek words …
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Bajan Reporter • February 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
