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Cleveland Clinic Develops Calculator To Estimate 10-Year Risk of Diabetes Complications
Cleveland Clinic Develops Calculator To Estimate 10-Year Risk of Diabetes Complications
Patients struggling with type 2 diabetes and obesity are faced with the decision of whether to receive usual medical care or undergo weight-loss surgery. Now, a new risk calculator developed by Cleveland Clinic researchers can show these patients their risks of developing major health complications over the next 10 years depending on which course of treatment they choose...
Cleveland Clinic Performs Its First Purely Laparoscopic Living Donor Surgery for Liver Transplant
Cleveland Clinic Performs Its First Purely Laparoscopic Living Donor Surgery for Liver Transplant
Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed the Midwest’s first purely laparoscopic living donor surgery for liver transplantation in an adult recipient. The advanced procedure is available at only a few hospitals worldwide, and Cleveland Clinic is the second U.S. academic medical center to offer this approach for living donor liver transplantation...
Top Achievers in 2020 National Exams Receive Awards
Top Achievers in 2020 National Exams Receive Awards
Top achievers from public and private institutions throughout the country who excelled in the 2020 national Bahamas Junior Certificate (BJC) and Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) examinations were celebrated at the National Awards Presentations hosted by the Examination & Assessment Division of the Ministry of Education (MOE).
The event, scaled-down due to COVID-19 pro...
Grand Bahama Nurse Faces Emotional, Medical Threat, Praises Local Doctor, Cleveland Clinic Florida “They Saved my Life’
There are moments when Daphne Roxbury does not know how she got through it. Two weeks before Hurricane Dorian ravaged Grand Bahama and Abaco, the Registered Nurse who had helped so many others through pain and suffering learned the suspicious area that turned up on an MRI was what she most feared, breast cancer.
She had survived a major surgery for pre-ovarian cancer, diabetes, asthma, a resus...
Cleveland Clinic and Doctors Hospital Health System Establish Strategic Relationship to Expand and Improve Healthcare Services in The Bahamas
Cleveland Clinic and Doctors Hospital Health System have formed a strategic advisory council with the goal of expanding and improving the delivery of healthcare services in the Bahamas...
Local Doctors, Cleveland Clinic Florida Team Up for Free Breast Cancer Webinar Oct 31
Two leading local medical professionals, including one who survived breast cancer to become an international marathon runner and author, will team up this Saturday with the director of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Maroone Cancer Center for a free webinar starting at 11am...
HSBC files show how Swiss bank helped clients dodge taxes and hide millions
HSBC?s Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers dodge taxes and conceal millions of dollars of assets, doling out bundles of untraceable cash and advising clients on how to circumvent domestic tax authorities...
Minnis urges Junkanoo to stay on hold until virus subsides
WHILE paying tribute to a deceased Junkanoo pioneer in Grand Bahama this week, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said he hoped the community would not organise future parades until the COVID-19 threat subsides...
Top Bahamian Physician to Team with Leading Cleveland Clinic Florida Urologist for Free Men’s Health Webinar July 15
Top Bahamian Physician to Team with Leading Cleveland Clinic Florida Urologist for Free Men’s Health Webinar July 15
With one in nine men diagnosed with prostate cancer and an almost 100% cure rate if diagnosed early, there is no excuse for men to avoid a doctor’s visit, say experts...
CGI Donates $15,000 to PHA
CGI Donates $15,000 to PHA
The Colonial Group International (CGI) family of companies has donated fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) to help in the fight against Coronavirus...