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May 31, 2021
COVID vaccines and our children

Vaccination is a medical decision, and the practice of medicine involves evaluating risk versus benefit, with the overarching ethos that physicians must first do no harm.

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May 31, 2021
Monitoring vaccine adverse reaction reports

Continuing in our discussion on COVID vaccination and our children, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines an adverse drug reaction as "any response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological function."

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May 26, 2021
UB graduates express excitement and concern about their future

UB 2021 graduates share mixed emotions about graduating in the misdt of a pandemic as their virtual commencement ceremony approaches.

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May 21, 2021
Bahamian influence meets Eastern practice as ESPA

Potent Bahamian bush has come together with the Eastern practice of the Thai poultice massage for an amazing Bahamian Influence body treatment at ESPA spa at Baha Mar.

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May 18, 2021
What you don't know about asthma could kill your children

Asthma is perhaps one of the most common illnesses in children. It is one of the most common reasons for accessing care at pediatric emergency rooms, urgent care facilities, and pediatric offices.

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May 03, 2021
'We have had a lot of deaths'

Just several weeks in, the country's third wave is making a deadly mark.

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April 15, 2021
Vaccine supplies facing problem

A PAN American Health Organisation official has said there will be a short period of "limited access" to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to shipment and manufacturing issues.

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March 21, 2016
Processed meat may be killing more Bahamians than crime

For hundreds of years Bahamians were fishers and farmers. Their faces shone with the kind of radiance that only comes from lungs filled with fresh air and hands and feet that touch the earth on a daily basis.

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August 18, 2020
Statement from the Prime Minister

A statement from Prime Minister the Most Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis on adjustments to the New Providence lockdown...“In the past few weeks there has been a disturbing rise in COVID-19 cases in New Providence...

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July 13, 2020
Classes and Student Services for Fall 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked radical global and national changes. The University is prepared to meet these changes with the highest level of vigilance to ensure that faculty, staff, students and the public are kept safe and protected...

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