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...
HEALTH
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...
“Mafia” medicine prices endangering lives
With a policy of free supply and demand, the manufacturers, local and international distributors, as well as drug retailers,...
HEALTH: bipolar 1 and 2 differences
By Dr. Marin Veldic,( Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic) Bipolar disorder causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows. The...
HEALTH: Eating right tops multivitamins
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries...
Hooch kills two in Veraguas
Two men Velermino Virola González, 42, and Antonio González Santander, 41, residents of the community of El Paredón in the...
