Mavis Darling Presents a Copy of Her Book to the Governor General

Mrs Mavis Darling, chairman of the Kingdor National Parkinson Foundation, presented His Excellency the Most Hon. Cornelius A. Smith, Governor General...

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Tony Mendez, the real CIA spy behind Argo, dies aged 78

Ex-CIA agent Tony Mendez, who inspired the Oscar-winning film Argo, has died at the age of 78...

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"Never sell yourself short!" These words of advice came today from Bahamian Author and retired Jurist Cheryl Albury to a group of public and private school studends

The Kingdor National Parkinson Foundation held its 7th Annual Speech Competition at the British Colonial Hilton under the theme, "The Gift of Sharing..."

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Toto Riina, Mafia 'boss of bosses', dies in jail at 87

Notorious Sicilian Mafia "boss of all bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87...

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3rd Annual Speech Contest

Sunday 27th October 2013  3:00 PM

The Kingdor National Parkinson Foundation in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Science & Technololgy Presents: 3rd Annual Speech Contest

Under the theme: "THIS ONE'S FOR YOU...THE HOPE FOR PARKINSONS DISEASE."

Venue: The National Centre For The Performing Arts (Shirley Street) on Sunday, October 27, 2013 @ 3:00 pm

Falls and footwear

Every year in the United Kingdom, one in three people over 65 will fall. This rises to almost half with people aged 80 and above. Falls are the single, biggest reason for admission to the hospital and presentations to the emergency department in people aged 65 years and over. Falls account for over four million days spent in the hospital a year in England alone.
Ninety-five percent of hip fracture...

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Pains in the butt ... (hint) -- it's not your boss or coworker

The oldest medical document that has ever been found, the Ebers Papyrus, which dates back to 1,500 B.C., shows that from the period before Christ people were concerned about their bowels, so it's no surprise that today people suffer with constipation and that it's at epidemic proportions in The Bahamas, where many people consume a high fat, low fiber diet, according to Gastroenterologist Dr. E. Ma...

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Opray Winfrey, Rose Bryne, Renee Elise Goldsberry star in HBO films 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Debuting April 22

In 1951, a vibrant African-American woman was dying of cervical cancer at age 31. Under the bright lights of an operating room, surgeons harvested cells from her tumor that would prove to be astonishingly immortal and would change the face of medicine forever...

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Relearning to live

Paquell Butterfield is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor. On December 6, 2010 she was a backseat passenger in a car that was involved in an accident during which her brain was shaken so badly inside her skull that she sustained injuries to every area of it. The 24-year-old was in a coma for five weeks. Upon release from the hospital she began researching brain injury, especially as it was no...

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Unmotivated to exercise? Dopamine could be to blame

Perhaps you have told yourself many times that, as of next week, you will start exercising more. Perhaps next month. Maybe even next year. For many of us, however, sticking to a disciplined program of physical exercise is one of the hardest New Year's resolutions. New research offers clues as to why finding the motivation to exercise can be so difficult.

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