7 Tips For A Healthier Heart
It’s Tip Thursday! In Jamaica, heart disease is the number one cause of death. Preventative measures are key so on this first Thursday of February, which has been designated as Heart Month, here are...
View Article5 Facts: Mary Seacole, Jamaican Healer and War Heroine
It’s Five Facts Friday. Today we’ll share 5 facts about Mary Seacole. Mary Jane Grant, born in Kingston in 1805 to a Scottish army officer and a free black Jamaican woman, became known as Mary Seacole...
View Article5 Facts: Malaria
It’s Five Facts Friday! In this Gleaner video from two days ago, the Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has sought to calm fears following confirmation that three cases of the mosquito-transmitted...
View Article7 Tips to Reduce Stress
April has been observed as Stress Awareness Month since 1992. During the month, health care professionals increase their efforts to keep the public informed about the dangerous mental and physical...
View Article5 Facts: Autism
It’s Five Facts Friday! April is celebrated as World Autism Awareness Month and the second day of the month is observed as World Autism Awareness Day. There is no easy way to define autism as it is,...
View Article13 Basic First Aid Tips
We live in an uncertain world where emergency situations can pop up at any time. If you were to be caught in such a situation, would you be able to offer assistance to someone in need? This Tip...
View ArticleThe Need to Live: Give Blood
‘Every Blood Donation is a Gift of Life’ was the theme of June 14, 2013- World Blood Donor Day. What does that really mean? Blood; the source of life is needed by everyone. Patients who are scheduled...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Jamaica’s Major Cause of Death “Neoplasms”
The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a treaty adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly on 21 May 2003. It is an agreement that seeks “to protect present...
View Article5 Facts – Breast Cancer
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and today, October 4, is being observed a Pink Day by the Jamaica Cancer Society. This deadly disease is one of the main causes of death among women worldwide....
View Article7 Tips to Help Prevent Heart Failure
Heart disease is still the number one killer in Jamaica and the world. One of the most common and troublesome forms of heart disease is heart failure, also called congestive cardiac failure (CCF). This...
View ArticleImage Of The Week – Educating Seniors About HIV/AIDS
This week’s image comes from the Monday Gleaner story entitled Know The Facts: Retirees Learn About HIV/AIDS. In the photo, author and long-standing advocate for behaviourial change towards persons...
View Article120 Memorable Moments In Jamaica In 2013
What a year 2013 has been! There have been many memorable moments, including a fractious political leadership challenge, a new IMF deal, shocking positive drug tests for some of our elite athletes,...
View ArticleDare To Care – Continue The Support For The Bustamante Children’s Hospital
Thousands of Jamaicans flocked to the King’s House lawns on Saturday, January 4, for the fourth staging of the Shaggy & Friends benefit concert, in aid of the Bustamante Hospital for Children...
View ArticleMeet Endometriosis Warrior Shauna Fuller Clarke
March is being celebrated as Women’s History Month in several countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Jamaica, to correspond with International...
View ArticleA Quick Chikungunya Fact Sheet
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease that was first described during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952. The name ‘chikungunya’ derives...
View ArticleA Prostate Cancer Fact Sheet
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, with September 6 being marked as Prostate Awareness Day. What is prostate cancer? Prostate cancer is typically a very slow growing tumor in the prostate...
View ArticleMy Chikungunya Chronicles
I am the third person in my household to ‘catch’ the dreaded chikungunya virus. My mother and brother had it simultaneously about a month ago, and since a good amount of time had passed, and we had...
View ArticleA Quick Ebola Fact Sheet
Jamaicans are on high alert following the news that the dreaded Ebola virus has reached our great neighbour to the north, the United States. Yesterday, the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC)...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Dengue In Jamaica
The current chikungunya crisis has many Jamaicans voicing concerns about how it is transmitted, the need for the cleanup of potential mosquito breeding sites in some communities and a disjointed...
View Article5 Facts About Schizophrenia – World Mental Health Day 2014
Today is being observed as World Mental Health Day (WMHD). The theme for this year is ‘Living with schizophrenia.’ According to the World Health Organization (WHO), World Mental Health Day is observed...
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