Health

THE NETHERLANDS - ProRail wants to ban smoking at all train stations in the Netherlands. If the rail manager has its way, all smoking zones will disappear at the some...

HOLLAND - More people have reported health issues after using laughing gas, according to new figures from information centre NVIC, where doctors report instances of poisoning. In 2015 just 13...

HOLLAND - The Netherlands is facing increasing problems with opioid addictions. The number of people who booked into rehab clinics for painkiller addictions tripled between 2012 and 2018. "Thousands" of...

(CMC) – At least two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have responded to a warning by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) that regional countries should seek to enhance disease...

NEW YORK, United States, Wednesday July 24, 2019 (IPS) – The global fight against AIDS is floundering amid cash shortfalls and spikes in new HIV infections among marginalised groups in...

WILLEMSTAD - The Ministry of Public Health announced that they have identified a case of measles in Curaçao last Friday. The ministry immediately emphasizes that the person - a tourist...

THE NETHERLANDS - Dozens of people sustained eye injuries caused by miniscule hairs released by oak processionary caterpillars over the past weeks. At least 92 patients went to ophthalmologists in...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - Social & Health Insurances SZV hasemployers fully engaged in their compliance campaign over the past months. So far, employers have had the opportunity to attend various...

GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – Sint Maarten’s very own Nazette Smith opened her expanded obstetric and prenatal care practice in The Hague, Netherlands on Sunday July 14. Smith started...

HOLLAND - Haga hospital in The Hague has been fined €460,000 for poor patient file security, after it emerged a tv reality soap star’s medical records had been accessed by...