Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has appealed to Jamaican women to get tested for HIV, and to take more responsibility for their sexual behaviour by using a condom during...

For a person who has been smoking for many years, sticking to a decision to quit is one of the most difficult undertakings he or she must endure. But, for...

Minister of Health, the Hon Rudyard Spencer, has congratulated the Registrar General's Department (RGD) on the commissioning of a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) telephony system, which makes available 110...

The Southern Regional Health Foundation has established its St. Elizabeth Chapter, aimed at supporting and promoting development of public health services in the parish. At the launch held at the...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, says the time has come for clinicians and academics across Jamaica and the Caribbean to partner with Governments to provide health care that reach...

Although it is still early days, many persons are already bemoaning what they see as the insufficient strides made towards achieving the resolutions they set at the start of the...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding (centre), engages Cuba's Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Yuri Gala López (left), and Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer (right), during the ceremony to...

President of the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology, Professor Edward Barton, has said that the 2nd Annual Conference on Nephrology and Hypertension, at the Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Health for Jamaica, Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester, has said that with chronic non-communicable diseases being major contributors to morbidity and mortality in Jamaica, the incidence of...

Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, has said that the lifestyle disease, hypertension, is one of the major chronic disorders affecting persons in the country, which eventually leads...

Minister of Health Hon. Rudyard Spencer, says a number of measures will be taken to strengthen the capacity of the National Blood Transfusion Service. Speaking at his monthly press briefing...