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Young women should get mammograms and test early for breast cancer, even those under the age of 45, since such incidences are on the rise in Barbados. “Nothing to be alarmed about, as this corre…
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AirBourne • September 3rd, 2015 • 0 comments 
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The Barbados Cancer Society and Sagicor Presents Globeathon Barbados 2015 – Walk & 5k Run TO END Women’s Cancer. Register at www.globeathonbarbados.com
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Bajan Reporter • September 1st, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation unit is a programme designed for those persons who have had heart surgery, a heart attack, heart failure, a stroke or are at risk of these even…
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DevilsAdvocate • August 30th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
DIGICEL (Barbados) Ltd. is assisting the Hope Foundation with its awareness campaign by supporting that organisation’s Walk for Lupus for the ninth year. The annual walk comes off this Sunday, Augus…
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Bajan Reporter • August 26th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) relayed good wishes to former US President Jimmy Carter who announced he’s been diagnosed with cancer. The Council was urged t…
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Bajan Reporter • August 20th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Regional bank CIBC FirstCaribbean is set to launch its annual fight against cancer with a major fundraising drive which has so far raised US$110, 000 regionally, a full two months ahead of the officia…
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Bajan Reporter • August 18th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The public is advised that the previously unidentified victim from a serious accident which occurred on the ABC Highway on Monday 10th August 2015 has been verified. He is Haldean Burnett, 59 years …
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DevilsAdvocate • August 14th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The United States Navy’s Hospital ship, the USNS Comfort just ended a two-week humanitarian mission to Dominica. Thousands of Dominicans benefitted from medical, dental, and veterinary care. Cre…
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Bajan Reporter • August 8th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Royal Barbados Police Force is requesting the assistance of the public to identify a man said to be in his early 30’s and is currently in a serious condition at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.…
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DevilsAdvocate • August 2nd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
“None sing hymns to breath… But, oh, to be without it!” Yama from Roger Zelazny‘s Lord Of Light Have you ever been on a Nebuliser? It helps you breathe, but it makes you feel l…
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AirBourne • July 31st, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) denounces and deplores the recent threat made on the life of officials of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), by an un…
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Bajan Reporter • July 25th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: https://goo.gl/5eStr4
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Bajan Reporter • July 23rd, 2015 • 1 comment ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Kid #3: My Mommy says smoking kills. Nick Naylor: Oh, is your Mommy a doctor? Kid #3: No. Nick Naylor: A scientific researcher of some kind? Kid #3: No. Nick Naylor: Well, then she’s hardly a cr…
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AirBourne • July 23rd, 2015 • 1 comment ( Editorial, Health )
Child care professionals working across a wide spectrum, from infant to school-age, took advantage of two days of learning at reachwithin’s second annual ?conference Caribbean Children and Careg…
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Bajan Reporter • July 21st, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
A local physician believes that many Barbadians living with diabetes are not sufficiently aware of how to manage their condition from a nutritional point of view. Dr. Diane Brathwaite, Clinical Coordi…
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Bajan Reporter • July 13th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
In 2014 the Future Centre Trust learned Cahill Energy of Guernsey signed an agreement with the Government of Barbados (GoB) which in effect will create a Waste to Energy plant in Barbados. We are told…
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AirBourne • July 12th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Barbados will be joining with 120 nations in an international Walk for Peace on Saturday, July 25th, 2015. This Peace Walk, also known as the “Peace Road”, will take place in Bridgetown, b…
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Bajan Reporter • July 7th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The 3rd Annual Best of ASCO Event will be held at the Ritz Carlton San Juan, Puerto Rico October 16-18, 2015. CancerCaribbean the organizers of this event has again obtained the exclusive contract to …
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Bajan Reporter • June 29th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
One of the organisers of the Touch of Class Women’s Road Tennis Tournament is encouraging women to see exercise as a “way of life“. Juliet Worrell, Public Relations Officer of the Ba…
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Bajan Reporter • June 23rd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Shirts and numbers are available for collection at BARBADIANA DISCOVERED TREASURES any day in the week and on Saturdays. The Cystic Fibrosis team is also available at Sky Mall to get your registered f…
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Bajan Reporter • June 21st, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
A diabetic expert sees the growing cases of this Chronic Non Communicable Disease (NCDs) as the same urgency as if Chikungunya virus had again invaded this country. Her alarm is more on realising how …
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AirBourne • June 17th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
A leading medical specialist has warned too many Barbadians are avoiding their correct treatments for handling diabetes simply for hatred or fear of trivial events… He cited how Metformin costs …
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AirBourne • June 14th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
It can be scary if overseas and you get ill, or even if in Barbados and you need a specialist not here to wonder if your coverage allows for it? The Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited has remov…
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AirBourne • June 12th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Barbadians are invited to join the Barbados Diabetes Foundation for an interactive lecture on Sunday 14th June, 5:30 pm at Hilton Barbados, Needham’s Point. Effective diabetes care is essential …
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Bajan Reporter • June 11th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
There is nothing sweet about diabetes, although it involves the body’s ability to process sugars, and a leading non-governmental organisation is debuting an annual conference to tackle the vario…
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Bajan Reporter • June 7th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
