HEALTH: Flu Vaccines Available April 23
Vaccines against influenza will be available from April 23, and Minister of Health Miguel Mayo has urged the population to...
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HEALTH: Vaccines arrive ahead of flu season
THE RAINY season is also the flu season in Panama, and on Monday, April 15, the first consignment of influenza...
Pet allergy doesn’t mean no furry friends
By Dr. Anupama Ravi, Mayo Clinic, Rochester There are a number of steps you can take to ease the...
Thousands die as anti-vaccine movements spread
In March of this year, the authorities of Rockland, USA declared a state of emergency after more than 100 people...
Retrograde tobacco bill to get Varela veto
After outcries from The Ministry of Health (Minsa), cancer centers and NGO’s President Juan Carlos Varela has promised to veto...
Sick kids hospital staff have had enough
Doctors, nurses, technical and administrative staff of Panama’s children’s hospital Hospital del Nino took to the street near the aging...
Election campaigners visit “pediatric time bomb”
Ten days after hearing of yet another postponement of the reception of proposals for the construction of the new Hospital...
HEALTH WATCH: Male culture vs survival
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM A cancer diagnosis is seen as a teachable moment in medicine where we can try...
Burger King and Nestle opt for veggie burgers
By Dra Lourdes Quijada Hot on the heels of Burger King announcing that it would be introducing a Veggie Burger,...
Health workers call for tobacco bill veto
Officials from the Ministry of Health (MINSA) protested on Monday, April 1 against the watering down of a recently approved...
Water crisis creates health concerns
Over 80 cases of gastroenteritis in the city of David, Chiriqui, due to the drinking water crisis were confirmed by...
Tobacco bill gathered dust as health costs and deaths soared
After four years of gathering dust in committee draft law 136, which establishes provisions related to the content and dissemination...
