Health

I know many will scrunch up their faces and ask themselves, "They come in black?" Beyond the sprinkling of its paler counterpart on a hamburger bun, black sesame seeds may not even have gotten a cursory glance from many.

Most sodium is consumed in the form of sodium chloride, which is table salt. Other forms of sodium are also found in food, so watch out for salt and sodium

Renal (kidney) disease in children is not confined to chronic kidney failure, though this is the area that receives the most attention. Children may be born with absent or abnormal kidneys, or kidneys obstructed by malformations ...

Kidney disease is often referred to as a 'silent killer', which will greatly affect your quality of life...

There are now at least 40 children, 16 years and younger, living with chronic kidney disease.

Sitting for long periods after 60 can increase disability risk - A recent study by Northwestern Medicine in the United States found that for each additional hour someone 60 years or older sat, they doubled their risk of being disabled...

Weeks after the thanksgiving service and all had settled, one of my patients called to convey appreciation for advising a few weeks back that her mother was dying and that we had reached the limits with medical treatment and so the inevitable was near...

Wisynco supports heart care - Here, an employee of Wisynco Group Limited has his blood pressure checked by Nurse Mara Francis of the Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ)...

"This clearly must be one of the most significant gifts the association has had in its near 50 years of existence," declared Professor Errol Morrison, last Wednesday, in accepting two Fresenius 800HD haemodialysis machines, on behalf of the Diabetic Association of Jamaica (DAJ)....

UWI Research Days impact health policy Research by the Epidemiology Research Unit at the Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) has quantified the current epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases in Jamaica, which showed that the country is...

Urinary incontinence can be an embarrassing problem. This involuntary and unintentional leaking of urine occurs more often in women than in men, and it is a lot more common than expected....