Frontline covid-19 nurses lack protective equiment
Constant protests by frontline nurses and regular appeals for protective equipment (PPE) to face the COVID-19 pandemic,go largely unheeded and...
HEALTH
Sex-ed on backburner as child pregnancies near 61,000
While religious groups continue to battle sex education in schools At least 30% of all pregnancies in Panama are adolescents.,...
If it’s Counterfeit, II’s Not Medicine
A campaign to get the population to avoid the use of counterfeit drugs whose ingredients are incorrect or insufficient constitutes...
OPINION: Corruption rewarded, the user pays
The conflict between the Social Security Fund (CSS) and the FCC company - responsible for the construction of the City...
Unscientific treatment for covid-19 based on hunches
There is a proliferation of recommendations that are not supported by the best scientific evidence for issues related to the...
Future of rule violating counselor rests with president
The future of Health Minister-Counselor Eyra Ruiz who attended a funeral with scores of people when the limit of mourners...
Pandemic leads to Santo Tomas Hospital enlarged morgue
The morgue at The Santo Tomás Hospital filled to capacity by the COVID- 19 Pandemic and a new refrigerated warehouse...
Covid-19 kills 2,000 Americas healthcare workers
The American continent has the highest number of health workers infected with COVID-19 in the world, " reported the Pan...
“Do as I say not as I Do” — Health Ministry Leader
Minister of Health Counselor Eyra Ruiz, who has been declaiming that “no one is above the law” is the latest...
Panama pandemic deaths pass 2000 mark
Panama exceeded 2000 deaths from COVID-19, on Monday, August 31 with the accumulated total of 2002 deaths so far in...
HEALTHWATCH: Avoiding post meal inflamation
By Michael Greger, MD. FACLM Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling...
Panama’s Role in Silent Polio Victory
By Dr R. Richel This week, the world reached a milestone that it has been fighting for for decades. In...
