Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
Published: Monday Wednesday | September 9, 2009
Mother has the baby blues
New motherhood is a joyous occasion for many women. However for some mothers, this life-changing experience can be overwhelming, or even stressful. By some estimates, up to 85 per cent of women experience post-partum blues... Read More...
Letters - The salt monster
Dear Ms Brown, You misunderstood several important points about the DASH diet. Most important: DASH is not sodium-reduced. As president of the Salt Institute, representing the salt industry, I have monitored ... Read More...
Make breakfast a priority
We have all heard that breakfast is important and should be consumed at the beginning of the day. Although breakfast is important for all individuals, we will focus on children going back to school. After sleeping for hours, greater than eight hours... Read More...
Running like 'Lightning' Bolt
All of our muscles are not entirely the same. They have a mixture of white and red or fast-twitch and slow-twitch fibres. Muscle cells or fibres that contract or twitch fast are called fast twitch, and those that contract slowly are called slow twitch... Read More...
Men should know their 'sickle status'
One in every 10 Jamaicans carries the gene for sickle-cell disease. For every 150 live births, one baby is born with sickle-cell disease. This means about 260 babies with sickle-cell disease are born in Jamaica each year. Clearly, every man should know about... Read More...
