BELIZE CITY--Last Friday, Belize health professionals discussed the prevalence of obesity, linked to non-communicable diseases such as cancer and heart disease, among Belizeans and...
BELIZE CITY--Whereas violent homicides tend to grab the national news headlines, there are some insidious villains slipping under the radar, as even more Belizean...
BELIZE CITY—Leptospirosis, a potentially deadly disease contracted when food or water is contaminated by rat urine or feces, left the family of Nigel Augustine,...
BELIZE CITY—The stomach flu has become fairly common—so much so, that the overall economic impact has become astronomical, at an estimated BZ$18.6 million annually,...
BELIZE CITY—Ministry of Health officials confirmed to Amandala today that the incidences of dengue hemorrhagic fever - a severe and potentially deadly form of...
BELIZE CITY—Belize remains in the unenviable position of having the highest HIV prevalence rate in Central America. Although UNAIDS quotes Belize’s figure at 1.5%...
BELIZE CITY—A study released by the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, and publicized on Monday, August 4, 2014, highlights that nutrients in baked...
The physical changes that women experience as a result of cancer-fighting procedures can be very difficult to cope with, but the Belize Cancer Society...
The Ministry of Health announced today that it has begun nationwide surveillance to control the population of two species of mosquitoes - Aedes aegypti...
Lifestyle diseases and homicides are top killers in Belize over a 5-year period
Official data supplied to Amandala by the Ministry of Health indicate a...
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH), Belize’s premier public medical facility, is once again walking on hot coals following the confirmed discovery of an...
