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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | June 22, 2005

ADDICTED to shopping
ANN MARIE, like many persons, has a shopping addiction, which is also referred to as compulsive shopping or compulsive spending. The scientific term is oniomania. Individuals may become addicted to buying anything - clothes, antique furniture, art...

Eat well to prevent impotence
BOTH MEN and women are at risk regarding the major lifestyle diseases. These diseases can rob them of their quality of life and ultimately shorten their lives. The most damaging aspects of these diseases are usually the associated complications.


The fight still wages on against chickenpox
SPRING HAS sprung, and with it, mini-outbreaks of chickenpox. Caused by varicella zoster, a virus of the herpes family, chickenpox's most obvious symptom is a blisterlike rash that causes severe itching.


Help me lose 10 lb
Dear Mr. Gardner, I LOOK forward to reading your column each week. I am lacto-vegetarian, exercise intermittently and am very health conscious. I am 5'11" and 180 lb. Can you help me design an exercise routine to sculpt my abdominals ...


Subverting the 'boy code'
SOCIAL SCIENTISTS have discovered that male infants are actually more emotionally expressive than female babies at birth, and for several months afterwards.








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