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January 31, 2023
Girl Undergoes Rare Facial Reanimation Surgery, Restores Ability to Smile…at Cleveland Clinic

Nicole was born with unilateral congenital facial paralysis. The condition didn't allow her to move the right side of her face. (Courtesy: Carolina Gonzalez)

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January 31, 2023
Tailor's bunion bunionette

Tailor's bunion, also called a bunionette, is a prominence or boney enlargement of the fifth metatarsal bone at the base of the little toe. The metatarsals are the five long bones in each foot behind the toes.

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January 30, 2023
Bahamian systems out of order

We are on the home stretch to the 50th anniversary of independence, yet so much about our current state of affairs point to "systems out of order".

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Kobe's drive
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January 16, 2023
Kobe's drive

Witnessing the state some people live in drove Kobe Forbes to want to make a change to help. He knew that the only way to do it was to become successful. That "fueled" his drive to stay committed to his academic studies.

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December 19, 2022
VASP and VA activities' responsibility

According to the International Association of Compliance (ICA), “the global virtual assets regulatory landscape is a patchwork of differing approaches, reflecting, in turn, the cultural, political and social differences of many different jurisdictions”.

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August 16, 2022
Cleveland Clinic Performs First-In-World Full Multi-Organ Transplant to Treat Rare Appendix Cancer

Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed a first-in-the-world full multi-organ transplant to treat a patient with a rare form of appendix cancer called pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP). Upon completion of the lifesaving transplant surgery, the patient received five digestive organs: liver, stomach, pancreas, duodenum, and small intestine.

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Over-salted children
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June 08, 2015
Over-salted children

According to the popular nursery rhyme, "little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice", but according to the Caribbean Association of Nutritionists and Dietitians (CANDi), many children may also be over-salted.

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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 06, 2021
PAHO: Stick to measures and flatten the curve

THE Pan American Health Organization has again stressed that public health measures, including lockdowns, are the main tools for flattening the curve when there is a rise in COVID-19 cases.

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May 05, 2021
Doctors chief: We can't sit and do nothing

WITH COVID-19 cases and deaths growing, the president of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association says modified restrictive measures may work, but "sitting around doing nothing is irresponsible".

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