Fatness is driving an epidemic
The global financial crisis might cause many people to scale back on servings of ham, pudding and sorrel this Christmas but we should also watch our diets for our health's sake. You see, the burden of the lifestyle diseases (the chronic non-communicable disease or CNCDs)...

Study finds coffee consumption is mostly benign
Female coffee drinkers will be happy to know the results of this study: caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with an overall increase in breast cancer, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives...

A woman's quest to improve local health care
Billie Rees West is the kind of woman who doesn't give up until she gets what she wants. Billie Rees West is the kind of woman who doesn't give up until she gets what she wants. For the last 20 years, she wanted to help to improve Jamaica's health services...

A thought for you this
This Christmas will be very challenging for many of us. Many friends have shared with me the impact that the global financial crisis is having on them, some of them have lost money in alternative financial schemes and still others are disturbed ...

Plum pudding vs Christmas cake
Many Jamaicans are familiar with the Christmas cake, others with the plum pudding. What is the history of these two items and are they different? My research led me to information that show some slight differences based on their origins...

All I want for Christmas is my flu vaccine
It's that time of year again, when we can reasonably anticipate that, within the next few weeks and months, we will get a bout of the common cold. Worse yet, we might get 'the big flu'.