Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine published: Wednesday | March 3, 2004
Immunisation level falls below target
A vaccine is still one of the safest and most cost-effective ways to prevent disease but many Jamaican children are slipping through the cracks.
THE PREVALENCE of diabetes was 17.5 per cent in 1993 for the Jamaican population older than 15 years (Jamaica Diabetes Survey) and in the Spanish Town Study among adults 25-74 years...
THE ABILITY to go through the day's routine without experiencing undue aches and pains is heavily dependent on the range of movement that you maintain in your joints, this ties in with the functioning of your muscles and bones.
WITH THE start of the religious season of Lent, many Christians have begun the annual ritual of fasting. Other religions also recognise fasting as an important practice such as Muslims during Ramadan, and Hindus for prayer meetings and Divali.
HE TOLD the pharmacist that he chose to pay school fees and feed his children instead of buying the new group of Antiretrovirals (ARVs) prescribed to manage his full blown AIDS.
