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November 28, 2017
"Never sell yourself short!" These words of advice came today from Bahamian Author and retired Jurist Cheryl Albury to a group of public and private school studends
The Kingdor National Parkinson Foundation held its 7th Annual Speech Competition at the British Colonial Hilton under the theme, "The Gift of Sharing..."
November 17, 2017
Toto Riina, Mafia 'boss of bosses', dies in jail at 87
Notorious Sicilian Mafia "boss of all bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87...
Falls and footwear
May 16, 2017
Falls and footwear
Every year in the United Kingdom, one in three people over 65 will fall. This rises to almost half with people aged 80 and above. Falls are the single, biggest reason for admission to the hospital and presentations to the emergency department in people aged 65 years and over. Falls account for over four million days spent in the hospital a year in England alone.
Ninety-five percent of hip fracture...
April 04, 2017
Pains in the butt ... (hint) -- it's not your boss or coworker
The oldest medical document that has ever been found, the Ebers Papyrus, which dates back to 1,500 B.C., shows that from the period before Christ people were concerned about their bowels, so it's no surprise that today people suffer with constipation and that it's at epidemic proportions in The Bahamas, where many people consume a high fat, low fiber diet, according to Gastroenterologist Dr. E. Ma...
April 03, 2017
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...
Relearning to live
March 07, 2017
Relearning to live
Paquell Butterfield is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor. On December 6, 2010 she was a backseat passenger in a car that was involved in an accident during which her brain was shaken so badly inside her skull that she sustained injuries to every area of it. The 24-year-old was in a coma for five weeks. Upon release from the hospital she began researching brain injury, especially as it was no...
Unmotivated to exercise? Dopamine could be to blame
January 03, 2017
Unmotivated to exercise? Dopamine could be to blame
Perhaps you have told yourself many times that, as of next week, you will start exercising more. Perhaps next month. Maybe even next year. For many of us, however, sticking to a disciplined program of physical exercise is one of the hardest New Year's resolutions. New research offers clues as to why finding the motivation to exercise can be so difficult.
December 14, 2016
Michael Wallace and Keandra Munroe win Kingdor speech competition
Holy Cross Anglican Church Youth Group member Michael Wallace (St. Anne's School) and Temple Christian School's Keandra Munroe outclassed a field of 30 entrants to win their respective senior and junior divisions at Kingdor National Parkinson Foundation's sixth annual speech competition.
Wallace spoke on the topic, "Unite in the fight against Parkinson's disease", while Munroe took on the challeng...
Impossible is an opinion
November 17, 2016
Impossible is an opinion
Sometime back the world lost a really great soul in the person of Muhammad Ali the former Cassius Clay who was, as we all know, the former Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of The World.
Stem cell consultant touts high ethical standards
August 11, 2016
Stem cell consultant touts high ethical standards
As The Bahamas continues to pursue the development of a stem cell industry, just next door the number of U.S. stem cell clinics operating in violation of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines has reached nearly 600. And while some are questioning the ethics of therapy based on admittedly scarce research, Okyanos Cell Therapy Patient Consultant Dr. Moira Dolan told Guardian Business that Th...
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