City of Health performs its first valve replacement procedure
Medical specialists from the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute, in the City of Health, performed transcatheter mitral valve replacement procedures for...
HEALTH
Health Ministry on alert after shampoo recall
The Ministry of Health (Minsa), reported that it is on alert after the statement issued by the company Unilever...
Lack of key medication suspends transplant program
The Social Security Fund (CSS), reacted on Saturday, after learning that the director of the Panamanian Transplant Organization, César...
COVID-19: 725 new cases, one death
In the weekly epidemiological report, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported that, from October 9 to 15, 725 new...
Health Ministry readies for possible cholera outbreak
Responding to the cholera outbreak in Haiti the Ministry of Health (Minsa) has convened a situation room to organize...
Prolonged use of codeine and ibrufen can cause death – EMA
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has warned that the prolonged use of drugs that combine ibuprofen and codeine,...
Panama confirms 14th monkeypox case
Case No. 14 of monkey or monkeypox was confirmed Saturday, September 24, by the Department of Epidemiology of the...
Panama VP knocks big pharma at UN Assembly
Vice President José Gabriel Carrizo proposed this Thursday, September 22, to the international community that it consider access to...
Panama registers 13th case of monkeypox
On Monday, September 19 health authorities confirmed the 13th case of monkeypox in Panama. The Department of Epidemiology of the...
HEALTH WATCH: Poulty the most common cause of food poisoning
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM Poultry is the most common cause of serious food-poisoning outbreaks, followed by fish, then beefThe...
