Category: Health

Pride & Ego interfere with Bajan Men’s Healthy prostates

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 …

by AirBourne • February 21st, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )

Sint Maarten Declares War Against Mosquitoes

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…

by Bajan Reporter • February 21st, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )

CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank helps the Heart & Stoke Foundation of Barbados (HSFB) for their home blood pressure drive

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 …

by Bajan Reporter • February 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )

Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados (HSFB) gain support from FirstCaribbean for the home blood pressure drive

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 …

by Bajan Reporter • February 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )

Truths and Myths of Prostate Cancer – Grand Salle, 18th February 2016

Men’s Forum “Truths and Myths of Prostate Cancer” at 6:00pm at the Grande Salle, the forum is open to males and females. This forum has been granted 2 credits from the Barbados Medic…

by Bajan Reporter • February 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )

URGENT CALL FOR BLOOD – “O” or “B” NEGATIVE, LADYMEADE GARDENS

Thirty-three year-old Tania Goring, who has been hospitalised in the Medical Intensive Care Unit for the past 43 days, is urgently in need of O Negative or B negative blood. Persons, between the age o…

by Bajan Reporter • February 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )

Cancer Support Services has huge success for Prostate Blood Test, but still welcome Corporate Responsibility

Belmont Road recently looked like when cinemas used to have the latest kung fu movie, with a string of men waiting out on the street – but what they’re looking to beat was not Silver Fox, but to w…

by AirBourne • February 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )

Barbadian NGO urging men to get tested for prostate cancer

There is a call for men to do their part to live longer and help their families, and part of it is making a simple yet once costly exam easier on the Barbadian pocket. She said how exams are all happe…

by AirBourne • February 4th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )

BARBADOS JOINS U.N. AGENCY AGAINST NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

As Barbados’ methodologies to treat illness become more sophisticated, the result means taking on more responsibility globally. Health Minister John Boyce, after a significant delay, finally add…

by AirBourne • January 24th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )

Cherry offers trucks to help in garbage clean up

The government of Barbados now has an option and an alternative to the shortage of trucks as it relates to garbage collection. Businessman Anderson Cherry has written to the Government, The Minister o…

by Bajan Reporter • January 18th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )

MINISTER: DROUGHT AND DECAYING WATER MAINS CAUSING WATER PROBLEMS

Twenty fifteen was the driest year on record since the documentation of rainfall began in Barbados in 1942. This declaration made by Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Manage…

by Bajan Reporter • January 17th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )

THREE CASES OF ZIKA VIRUS CONFIRMED IN BARBADOS

Barbados has recorded its first three cases of the Zika virus. The Zika infection is a mild, febrile viral illness transmitted by the bite of a Zika virus-carrying Aedes aegyti mosquito, which is the …

by Bajan Reporter • January 17th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )

Young women on Nevis urged to take advantage of Pap Smear Drive

The Ministry of Health on Nevis is urging women who are or have been sexually active to take advantage of its Pap Smear Drive for the occasion of Cervical Cancer Month observed in January. According t…

by Bajan Reporter • January 15th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )

Zika virus confirmed in Martinique

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is getting closer to Barbados with nearby French island, Martinique, becoming the latest Caribbean country to report confirmed cases. That island is the 11th country in t…

by Bajan Reporter • December 28th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )

Flow offers support to BCS and HIV/AIDS Commission

For the second successive year, the Barbados Cancer Society and the National HIV/AIDS Commission have benefitted from more than $10,000 in support from telecoms provider, Flow. As part of the company&…

by Bajan Reporter • December 26th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB) DONATES FUNDS TO THE Q.E.H

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB) continues to exercise good corporate citizenry with the presentation of a cheque for $25 000 to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital recently. The fun…

by Bajan Reporter • December 26th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )

Less recovery means more money for both patients and doctors, QEH says new procedure reduces expenses by almost $6 million

Many Barbadian females who experience surgery may have spent weeks or months recuperating, this is now a thing of the past… Dexter James, CEO of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was addressing colle…