Health ministry launches $50m research fund
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has officially launched the Research for Wellness Fund, making $50 million available to Jamaican researchers to execute public health research. According to...
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Centre to advance plant-based medicine research to be established
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Audley Shaw, says there are plans to establish a centre in Jamaica to further advance plant-based medicine research. Shaw said that a “progra...
Finance minister challenges UWI to make research protifable
Minister of Finance Nigel Clarke has challenged the University of the West Indies (UWI) to turn research into a profitable venture and help grow Jamaica’s economy. Speaking at the Mona School...
Jamaica representing the Caribbean in global fraud food fight
Jamaica is the only Caribbean country to be included in an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) five-year research project that is geared at assisting countries in combatting fraud in high-value ...
Dr Lowe’s medical ganja research centre gets US$5m from Canadian firm
Canada-based Atlas Biotechnologies (Atlas) has closed a 20 per cent strategic investment in US-based Flavocure Biotech (Flavocure) founded by Jamaican Dr Henry Lowe, in exchange for $7.5 million CAD (...
Ibuprofen ‘could hit male fertility’
Taking high doses of ibuprofen over a long period could impact on male fertility, a report says. The findings by French and Danish researchers followed a six-week clinical study involving 31 men be...
Parents favour eldest child according to research
Most children like to believe they are their parents' favourite but if you are the eldest child you might actually be right. New research shows that parents tend to favour their first born ov...
Science backs up these pregnancy superstitions
Most of the folk wisdom that well-meaning older relatives offer up to expectant mothers can be easily ignored: Carrying the baby lower in the abdomen isn't a sign that it's a boy, or a girl, or anythi...