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The province’s murder rate is 49percent, followed by motor accidents at 26percent, undetermined at 10percent, suicide at eight percent and unintentional deaths at seven percent. High-risk age groups are those aged between 20 to 34.

Monday, December 7th 2009 Prime Minister Patrick Manning left for Havana, Cuba yesterday to conduct a routine medical examination. Last December Manning had a cancerous kidney removed after a malignant tumour was found. The surgery was done in Cuba and...

RD$300 million will be spent over the next four months on face-lifting and re-equipping San Cristobal's Juan Pablo Pina Hospital Bani's Nuestra Senora de Regla Hospital, the two largest public hospitals in the southwestern region. According to Minister Bautista Rojas...

Schools such as Vauxhall High, Charlie Smith High, Greenwich All-Age and St Andrew Technical have implemented methods to counter the shortage. Yesterday, the cook employed at Greenwich All-Age had to report for work earlier than normal to counter a possible...

The ministry indicated in a press release that even if symptoms were mild, persons were being strongly cautioned against going into crowded areas. "As we enter into the regular flu season we will be seeing increased cases of seasonal influenza...

HIV/Aids testing during the first-ever National HIV Testing Day, in commemoration of World Aids Day 2009. The event, which was scheduled by the Ministry of Health, also allowed people to get on-site pre-testing and post-testing counselling services. November, but today...

Most communities have individuals or groups whose exceptional approaches to problems help them find better solutions than their peers, say behavior change experts, who call such individuals ‘positive deviants’. Two years ago NGO Catholic Relief Services (CRS) set out to...

Ramnath, who suffers from diabetes, sustained an injury to his foot three months ago and was receiving treatment, which included minor surgery and antibiotics, to aid in the recovery. However, he said although the treatment seemed to be working, doctors...

Scientists have across evidence in the form of a stress hormone in the hair of Peruvian individuals who lived between 550 A.D. and 1532 that suggests that people in the past were very stressed out. According to a report in...