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The Bahamas Health & Healing Medical Center

Montrose Avenue & Arundel Street
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Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas


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October 05, 2022
October Is Healthy Lung Month

October is a month set aside for lung awareness. It’s National Healthy Lung Month, and Lung Health Day is October 28. National Respiratory Care Week is October 25-30.

It may seem arbitrary to set aside a particular month for health awareness, but it’s useful to remind ourselves of the things in our environment that can harm us and to act with compassion toward those who have already been ha...

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November 05, 2019
November Is Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Lung cancer is cancer that starts in the lungs. The most common type is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). NSCLC makes up about 80 to 85 percent of all cases. Thirty percent of these cases start in the cells that form the lining of the body’s cavities and surfaces.

This type usually forms in the outer part of the lungs (adenocarcinomas). Another 30 percent of cases begin in cells that line t...

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June 27, 2017
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...

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August 28, 2013
detainee was left with broken ribs and collapsed lung

THE investigation into allegations of an assault on Cuban detainees by Defence Force marines officially began on July 30, more than six weeks after the incident occurred, with an ?Investigators? summary for prosecution? report being submitted to Defence Force Command on August 14, The Tribune has learned...

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January 11, 2011
Take Care of Your Lungs

Which is the more unfriendly place for your lungs - the smoking section inside a restaurant or the one outside on the patio? The answer may surprise you. Tests recently revealed that the air quality is often equally poor in both locations. So steer clear of that smoking section whenever you can.

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November 04, 2021
Paradise Island Lighthouse & Beach Club Co. Ltd publicly thanks Prime Minister “Brave” Davis

Paradise Island Lighthouse & Beach Club Co. Ltd publicly thanks Prime Minister “Brave” Davis for representing the Bahamas at COP26. We sincerely hope the actions are exemplified and a herculean effort measures up to the commitments expressed.

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May 05, 2016
Pit bulls savage female owner and man on Paradise Island

A WOMAN is in critical condition in hospital after she was mauled by two pit bulls she owned last Saturday on Paradise Island.

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Wild, wild Wyclef Jean
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March 24, 2023
Wild, wild Wyclef Jean

The music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced - both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees - has been a consistently powerful, pop cultural force for over two decades.

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