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Lung Cancer: A Preventable, Treatable and Beatable Disease
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths, which accounted for 1.69 million lives in 2015. Tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity are major cancer risk factors worldwide, the most crucial being tobacco use, which is responsible for about 22 percent...
Publishing Symposium and Expo Opens Global Possibilities for Bahamians
Bahamian writers recently received valuable information and exposure that could place their written work before a global audience, thanks to Scholar Books, the largest traditional book publishing company based in the Bahamas with a world-wide reach...
Dr. Winston Campbell Makes History
Dr. Winston Campbell Makes History
Dr. Winston Campbell, has become the University of the West Indies? (UWI) first board-certified specialist in the field of sleep medicine, not only in The Bahamas, but the entire Caribbean...
Innovative, Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement Surgery with Less Downtime
When dealing with persistent hip pain that interferes with day-to-day functioning like walking, performing daily activities or even sitting comfortably, surgery may become necessary. Now surgery for hip replacement isn?t the major procedure it used to be...
"Mechanical Circulatory Support in Children with Congenital Heart Diseases Expands Life Expectancy"
"Mechanical Circulatory Support in Children with Congenital Heart Diseases Expands Life Expectancy"
The expected outcomes and management of congenital heart disease has changed considerably over the last 20 years wherein conditions such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome were uniformly fatal before the 1980?s but where we now have multiple...
"Mechanical Circulatory Support in Children with Congenital Heart Diseases Expands Life Expectancy"
"Mechanical Circulatory Support in Children with Congenital Heart Diseases Expands Life Expectancy"
?The expected outcomes and management of congenital heart disease has changed considerably over the last 20 years wherein conditions such as hypoplastic...
Opray Winfrey, Rose Bryne, Renee Elise Goldsberry star in HBO films 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Debuting April 22
In 1951, a vibrant African-American woman was dying of cervical cancer at age 31. Under the bright lights of an operating room, surgeons harvested cells from her tumor that would prove to be astonishingly immortal and would change the face of medicine forever...
Cleveland Clinic Opens New Cancer Center
Cleveland Clinic Opens New Cancer Center
The new Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center will begin welcoming patients on Monday, March 6. The 377,000-square-foot facility, estimated at $276 million, will house all outpatient cancer treatment services in one location with the center?s team of medical and radiation...
Eye doctor raises concerns at 'discriminatory' recruitment
ANOTHER senior ophthalmologist has issued a scathing critique of the Public Hospital Authority's recruitment of two Indian eye doctors at the Princess Margaret Hospital, calling the move "unconventional, discriminatory, and unfair".
Expert highlights shortage of eye doctors amid hospital row
WEIGHING IN on the dispute that led to the resignation of the chief of medical staff at Princess Margaret Hospital, ophthalmologist Dr. Jonathan Rodgers yesterday highlighted the critical shortage of eye doctors in the country.