What you should know about Flu

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Flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and sometimes the lungs. It can cause mild to severe...

Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. During this month people wear the colour pink to raise awareness about the disease. There are many activitie...

The Zantac recall

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Weeks after the popular heartburn drug ranitidine, known by the brand name Zantac, was found to contain a cancer-causing chemical, multiple drugstores...

Violence and Crime – A Public Health problem. We must respond

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We tend to view violence and crime as merely social or legal problems. However, these are very important public health problems. Violence has probably...

Dengue

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Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and, to a lesser extent, A...

The Chest Pain – Angina Pectoris

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Chest Pain is common. Many times, chest pain can be confused for many different medical conditions. Often it is brushed aside as just “gas”. Howev...

The Ethics of Organ Donation

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Medical ethics is grounded on four principles. These principles are autonomy, beneficence, justice and nonmaleficence. Autonomy addresses the ability ...

Hydration: why is it important?

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The average adult human body is 50-65 per cent water and every cell, tissue and organ in your body require water in order to function at its best. Wat...

How is stress affecting your health?

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We have all felt what it is to be stressed. For some people every day can be stressful. For others, stress occurs when there is a significant event th...