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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | July 9, 2008

OUR CHILDREN ARE smoking GANJA
This matter of ganja use among young people is still very contentious and sometimes painful. Almost every day, I receive calls from frantic parents whose children are using ganja and who are seeking solutions...

Restore your teeth with DENTAL FILLINGS

A dental filling or restoration is a restorative material used to restore the function, integrity and morphology of missing tooth structure. The structured loss typically results from caries or external trauma. Loss can also occur intentionally during tooth preparation...

Children's dining habits and their health

Many of us are old enough to remember when meals were always eaten at the dining table. Those without a dining table would still congregate at mealtime to eat and talk. Most rural schools did not have dining rooms, but lunch was eaten in classrooms at the desks.

Managing urinary incontinence

Urinary incontinence (UI) is simply the loss of bladder control. The person with UI is unable to control the release of urine from the bladder. It affects all age groups, peaking during menopause in women, and with increasing age in men. There are four main types...

Too much exercise could make you sore!

Our muscles respond very poorly to excessive exercise. This is so especially when the activities require running and jumping and if the exercise is too strenuous. Acute soreness can happen during and immediately after exercising. The muscle tension developed...

Malnutrition milking moms

Lactating mothers are usually bombarded by messages about the health and emotional importance of breastfeeding newborns. But equal attention should be placed on the nutrition of the new moms themselves, says paediatrician, Eve Palomino-Lue...

Health trends

Post-heart-attack diet - After a heart attack, adopting either a low-fat or Mediterranean-style diet significantly benefits overall and cardiovascular health, research suggests.The diets provide similar amounts of protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol...





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