Second LCIS Thomson Trust Scholar Announced

Confident and well-spoken, Lyford Cay International School (LCIS) Grade 7 student Melania Nixon stands out when she enters a room. Though she may not be as tall as some of her classmates, her personality and enthusiasm more than make up for it...

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More than 200,000 have received NHI Smart Cards/ 'NHI-Ready' Campaign Launched to Get Remaining 100,00 Registered

More than two hundred thousand (240,000 to be exact) of the legal residents within the Commonwealth of The Bahamas have registered for, and received their National Health Insurance Smart Cards...

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A Simple Formula to Produce Bahamian Scientist

CV Bethel?s annual 12th grade Science Competition is helping Bahamian students prepare for a related career through a competitive battle with 200 of their peers striving to get the highest grades in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology...

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National Health Insurance Enrolment begins April 24

Beginning April 24, 2017, the National Health Insurance (NHI) Secretariat will launch phase two of NHI Bahamas, which is enrolment...

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Enrolment for NHI to begin on April 24

ENROLMENT for National Health Insurance will begin on April 24, the NHI Secretariat announced yesterday, at which time Bahamians will be able to choose their primary care physician...

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Medical Association of The Bahamas 41st Annual Scientific Conference

Thursday 7th March 2013  2:00 PM

Medical Association of The Bahamas
41st Annual Scientific Conference
March 6 ? 8, 2013
British Colonial Hilton Hotel

Thursday March 7, 2013

2:00pm ? 2:30pm The C.R. Walker Memorial Lecture
?A JOURNEY THROUGH CHILDHOOD? Dr. Percival McNeil Paediatrician Nassau, Bahamas

Session IV 2:30pm - 5:20pm

TOPIC: THE COST OF MEDICAL CARE IN THE BAHAMAS IS TOO HIGH
AND PHYSICIANS ARE THE CAU...

A rare chance to see Mercury pass across the face of the Sun

LOCAL astronomy enthusiast Dr David Sands yesterday introduced dozens of Bahamians to one of the rarest astronomical occurrences - a Mercury transit across the face of the sun.

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Annual Medical Conference Next Week!

Dr. L. D. Britt
MD,MPH, FACS, FCCM, FRCSEng (Hon), FRCSEd (Hon), FWACS (Hon), FRCSI (Hon), FCS(SA)(Hon)

Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Surgery Eastern Virginia Medical School; Professor School of Health Professions; Distinguished Professor of Surgery Uniformed Services University of the health Sciences; Professor in the Division of the History of Medicine; Chairman, Council of Clinical Chair...

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Hospital Asked For Answers

Forty-Four-year-old Natalie Shepard said her worst nightmare became reality when the baby girl she and her husband had tried for years to conceive, died in the Princess Margaret Hospital weeks after her birth.

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Child injured in Sandilands Village fire dies in hospital

THE Sandilands Village fire claimed the life of another victim yesterday. One of the surviving children who was fighting for life at Princess Margaret Hospital died yesterday.

Funeral services were held last week for three other children killed in the tragic blaze.

Three more siblings remain ventilated and managed by a team of specialists in the Intensive Care Unit, including paediatricians,...

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