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September 12, 2022
Brain Aneurysm Symptoms Are Similar to Stroke: True or False?

An aneurysm — a ballooning or bulging out of an artery where the wall is weak — can wreak havoc if it bursts. When aneurysms rupture in the brain, the resulting hemorrhage can cause stroke, coma, death, brain damage and other problems.

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December 13, 2011
Preparing For Foot Surgery

You have had enough! That bunion or hammer toe has been killing you for some time now and you want to have it fixed surgically. You have seen the Podiatrist and are about to have foot surgery.? It can be overwhelming to know that you must have surgery on your foot.

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August 19, 2022
Strangers Turned Sisters After Women Share Same Liver from One Donor in Surgery Performed at Cleveland Clinic

When you ask Maria Contreras about the day she met her “sister,” she lights up like a firecracker. “Oh, my God, my heart started going ‘boom, boom, boom,’” exudes Maria, 54, a native of Puerto Rico who now lives in Cleveland, Ohio. “I was waiting so long for this moment to meet her that I hugged her, I kissed her and I jumped!”

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August 16, 2022
Cleveland Clinic Performs First-In-World Full Multi-Organ Transplant to Treat Rare Appendix Cancer

Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed a first-in-the-world full multi-organ transplant to treat a patient with a rare form of appendix cancer called pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP). Upon completion of the lifesaving transplant surgery, the patient received five digestive organs: liver, stomach, pancreas, duodenum, and small intestine.

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July 15, 2022
New robotic technology promises better outcomes in total knee replacement surgery

Do you know anyone that has undergone a total knee replacement and is disappointed with the results? Are you, on the other hand, someone who suffers from daily knee pain from severe osteoarthritis and is concerned about major surgery?

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March 03, 2010
Tribune top stories - Wed Mar 3

Christie: PLP would welcome Branville

Disbelief over student's apparent suicide

More skeletal remains found in Grand Bahama

Two Catholic schools forced to close this year

The Bahamas Heart Foundation concerned over Dr Duane Sands' political career

Man dies at the wheel after stabbing

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June 07, 2021
Cleveland Clinic’s Weston Hospital Performs First Living Donor Liver Transplant

Cleveland Clinic’s Weston Hospital has performed its first living donor liver transplant, in which a daughter donated a portion of her liver to her mother who had been battling complicated liver disease for several years.

The donor and recipient surgeries were performed in Weston by a team of surgeons from Cleveland Clinic Weston and Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which has one of the nation’s ...

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May 29, 2022
Bariatric Surgery for Obesity at Age 65 and Beyond: A Cardiovascular Win

A recent report from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey states that people over 60 years of age are more likely to be obese than younger adults. “In the USA, 29% of elderly adults are obese, while similar rates are seen in The Bahamas as well,” says Muthukumaran Rangarajan, MD, a Consultant Bariatric and Robotic Surgeon at Doctors Hospital, Bahamas. “An interesting point to...

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May 23, 2022
The other health crisis

With Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) operating at maximum capacity, Consultant Surgeon Dr. Locksley Munroe said yesterday the healthcare system is challenged by patients who were unable to have elective procedures done as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. "People who ought to have had things done in 2020, they are now in a much worse ...
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March 15, 2022
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month - HOW TO PREVENT COLORECTAL CANCER

Colorectal cancer, often referred to as colon cancer, affects both men and women and is the third most common cancer in The Bahamas. It is also the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the Bahamas. More than 49 people were diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2020 — and that’s just in The Bahamas. That’s a lot of people for such a small population. Though, what may surprise you mor...

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