The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) wishes to inform the public that two of the elevators at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, have been taken out of service...

Seventeen dialysis machines will be officially commissioned into service at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) by Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer on Wednesday (June 10). The machines were provided...

Efforts to secure sustained interventions in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Latin American and the Caribbean have been bolstered with Governments agreeing to intensify, widen co-operation and develop greater capacity...

Two additional imported cases of Influenza A (H1N1) have been detected in Jamaica by the Ministry of Health's surveillance system, and confirmatory testing done at the University of the West...

President of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), Dr Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe, has called on Jamaicans to play their part in reducing the number of trauma cases in the country. "We...

The 18th Meeting of CARICOM's Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), which ended yesterday (June 4) in Montego Bay, St. James is being deemed a success by Minister of...

The Ministry of Health is reminding persons who have traveled to or have come in contact with persons who have travelled to countries with confirmed cases of the Influenza A...

Senior Research Fellow/Health Economist at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus, Roger McLean, has said that health and education are key sectors in responding to the...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has called on Governments in the region to invest more in health and education, to give the countries a sustainable, strategic advantage in an...

The country's stockpile of antiviral for the treatment of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus has been bolstered with the donation of more than $1 million worth of drugs by the...

Jamaica is the 53rd country to report the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, following the two confirmations on May 29. Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, told journalists at a media...