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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | May 3, 2006

ACCEPT IT, ACCEPT IT NOT - Sex, prostitution, HIV /AIDS
THE PROBLEMS I have with these on-again off-again public discussions on 'accepting' or legalising prostitution to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica are: 1)It's always men who are making the suggestion and are so gung-ho about it.

The high cost of drugs
CONCERNS ABOUT the hefty cost of drugs continue. Many patients resort to partial or sequential purchasing, depending on the situation. As inventory costs skyrocket, pharmacists order many of the expensive drugs when a prescription is presented.


Falling fences and filth - Things will not change unless we change
LAST WEEKEND I had a visitor whom I was taking around the city. I was shocked and appalled at the level of deterioration in our city. Jamaica is certainly a beautiful country, but if we do not intervene now, it will become a country of filth...


Where's our male identity?
WHEN WAS the last time that you saw an attractive woman who on second glance turned out to be a man in braids, lip gloss, knob earrings, shaved eyebrows, tight-fitting pants and sandals revealing pedicured nails? Just a while ago?


Don't stretch too much!
STRETCHING IS a very important part of your exercise programme but overstretching could result in a strain. A strain is a stretch injury that can result in tearing of a muscle or the supporting tissue such as the muscle tendon.




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