Health

Hate exercise?

A new year typically brings new resolutions. While making resolutions is easy, sticking with them is not. Read More

Life and debt
THE bank is calling. You are hiding. Your pressure is up. The calls won't stop. The utility bills are due.Frankly, you know not what to do.... Read More

Delayed Zika effects in babies who appeared healthy at birth
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — Infants in Colombia who were exposed to the Zika virus in the womb showed motor and cognitive development delays in their first 18 months of life, despite having a normal head circumference at birth, scientists reported last...... Read More

Control your diet, weight, fitness & health
ANOTHER new, inspiring year, but the same old, uninspired body — that is the reality for many of us in the beginning of 2020.Fortunately, as always, there are two possible paths ahead:... Read More

'Mummy tummy': More than meets the eye

Kimberly Hoffman | Sunday, January, 5 2020

AFTER nine months of housing their babies, mothers, oftentimes, are left with a not-so-small reminder of their tiny occupants: A protruding tummy. Read More

Mouth healthy resolutions

by Dr Sharon Robinson | Sunday, January, 5 2020

YOUR dental health is an important part of your overall wellness, and the new year is a great time to create resolutions for improving your health. Read More

Be cyber well

BY WARRICK LATTIBEAUDIERE | Sunday, January, 5 2020

IT is almost natural for civilised nations to acknowledge the importance technology has played in advancing the social health and welfare of man. Read More

The ‘supercells' ’that cured an infant’s genetic illness

Sunday, January, 5 2020

MCLEAN, United States (AFP) — When a person's immune system is impaired by a genetic disease a bone marrow transplant can be a powerful therapeutic tool, but with a major downside — during the first few months the recipient's defences against viruses are severely weakened. Read More

Set goals instead...

Sunday, December, 29 2019

ANOTHER year is ending and one more is about to begin. It happens every year no matter what we do, but we can certainly control the changes in our own lives. Read More

Diet soda may be hurting your diet

BY EUNICE ZHANG University of California, Los Angeles | Sunday, December, 29 2019

ARTIFICIAL sweeteners are everywhere, but the jury is still out on whether these chemicals are harmless. Read More

20/20 vision

BY WARRICK LATTIBEAUDIERE | Sunday, December, 29 2019

HAVING two eyes provides humans stereoscopic vision, the loss of which tremendously handicaps humans since sight, over and above all else, is probably the most important channel of communication to the mind. Read More

Happiness in giving

BY WARRICK LATTIBEAUDIERE | Sunday, December, 22 2019

“There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving” (Acts 20:35). Read More

Sorrel time again

BY WENDY-GAYE THOMAS, MD | Sunday, December, 22 2019

FOR Jamaicans, the word sorrel conjures up the flavours, aromas and jollification of Christmas. But for people in other countries, sorrel is simply a great year-round addition to salads. Read More

'Vast majority' of vaping illnesses blamed on vitamin E

BY CARLA K JOHNSON AP Medical Writer | Sunday, December, 22 2019

HEALTH officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the “vast majority” of cases in the US outbreak of vaping illnesses and they say doctors should monitor patients more closely after they go home from the hospital. Read More