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ST JOHN’S – Prime Minister Gaston Browne stopped just short of announcing that his government would be implementing a mandatory vaccination policy for Antigua...

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden took aim on Thursday at vaccine resistance in the United States, announcing policies requiring most federal employees to get...

A new approach to protecting young African children from malaria could reduce deaths and illness from the disease by 70 per cent, a study...

Health care Worker Spotlight by Katrina Welch Alove for food and a passion for health led Victoria Cox to a career in the field of dietetics. As we continue our Health and Care Worker Spotlight, we will take a look at this 28-year-old who has dedicated her life to helping others improve their lives through better nutritional choices. Victoria has been a private practice dietitian

NICOLE CARTER - inherown Words by Essiba Small of the Trinidad Express Nicole Carter looked at her body in the mirror one day, didn’t like what she saw and actually did something about it. “As a young lady in my teens, I was overweight and very addicted to sugar,” she said. “Being young, overweight and in school wasn’t much fun. The stretch marks started to set in, then the

MORE ABOUT THE DELTA STRAIN The delta variant of covid-19 will definitely accelerate the pandemic. This is the view of Yale Medicine epidemiologist Dr F. Perry Wilson, who said the uniqueness of this strain of the virus is how quickly it is spreading. The first Delta case was discovered in India in December 2020, and quickly became the dominant strain there and in Great Britain. The