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September 28, 2023
Vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and children, as well as front-line healthcare workers are being encouraged to get the influenza vaccine. The influenza season normally starts in October. The flu is an acute viral infection that spreads...
September 10, 2023
Lost in much of the crosstalk and social media buzz over the past week has been the important fact that, yesterday, September 9, 2023, all across the Caribbean Community (Caricom) there were celeb...
September 8, 2023
ACTING director, Family Health Unit, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr Julia Rowe Porter is again cautioning that getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, now being administered to pr...
September 7, 2023
THE Ministry of Health and Wellness has announced plans to ramp up its public education campaign around the cancer prevention benefits of the the HPV vaccine for teen girls and boys, in light of t...
September 6, 2023
ANTI-VACCINE sentiment, a prime public health challenge during the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, remains "more than ever a significant threat", according to health officials here. "It's not...
November 9, 2022
JAMAICANS are being urged to make healthier food and lifestyle choices to stave off or control chronic illnesses such as diabetes. This call comes from medical epidemiologist with the Ministry o...
November 9, 2022
J ulia Rowe Porter, epidemiologist with the Ministry of Health, says with the country battling to reduce the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), it is just a matter of time befo...
November 8, 2022
THE Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) will be placing special focus on engaging young people and educating them about diabetes for November, which is being observed as Diabetes Awareness Month. S...
November 8, 2022
One of Jamaica's foremost epidemiologists, Dr Julia Rowe Porter, says with data showing that more than half of Jamaicans are overweight and obese, the island is being "set up for a tsunami of...
November 8, 2022
MEDICAL epidemiologist with the ministry of health and wellness Dr Julia Rowe Porter is urging Jamaicans to seize the opportunity offered to them to stop diabetes in its tracks by screening for th...