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COVID vaccines and our children
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.
Monitoring vaccine adverse reaction reports
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."
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.
Bahamian influence meets Eastern practice as ESPA
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.
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.
'We have had a lot of deaths'
'We have had a lot of deaths'
Just several weeks in, the country's third wave is making a deadly mark.
Vaccine supplies facing problem
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.
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.
Statement from the Prime Minister
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...
Classes and Student Services for Fall 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...