Medical team brings much-needed help
FOR ALMOST two years, Elaine Garwood visited public hospitals trying to get a date to have a hernia removed. Her appointments were often postponed because of gun shot wounds and other trauma cases facing hospitals.

PJ's Westmoreland successor dies
WESTERN BUREAU: DR. NORMAN Buchanan, who was chosen to represent the Eastern Westmoreland constituency after Prime Minister P.J Patterson steps down from representational politics, died yesterday in the Cornwall Regional Hospital...

Preparations well ahead of schedule
PLANS FOR the ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 are well advanced compared to the 2003 staging of the event in South Africa. Venue development director and chief operating officer Donald Lockerbie...

Bail extended for rape accused
DR. MATT Myrie, the 31-year-old gynaecologist, who is charged with raping a patient at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in February this year, appeared in the Home Circuit Court on Friday.

UWI bids to become heritage site by 2010
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) is positioning the campus to become a national heritage site by the year 2010.

Fake cop charged
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: THE MAN who was detained by the police last month for impersonating some senior female members of the force was charged Friday.He has been identified as Snively Price, 19, a labourer of Hamilton Mountain in St. Mary.

Boost up on supplements
UP TO the end of the last century, mainstream medicine was openly hostile to the idea of healthy people taking vitamin supplements. Only recently has this antivitamin position begun to change as irrefutable evidence...

More attention needed for the elderly
MEDICAL OFFICIALS believe that there is a genuine risk that the health of several senior citizens is being compromised because of inadequate attention being paid to issues affecting them.