Health

If your parents have a history of high blood pressure, you can significantly reduce your risk of developing the disease with moderate exercise and increased cardiovascular fitness, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal...

As we continue to observe Child's Month, let's talk about juvenile diabetes or Type 1 diabetes.Children who are diabetic have special needs, their blood-glucose level needs to be carefully monitored, their insulin and medications ...

Nutrition is universally recognised as a key component of the child's right to health as defined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

The importance of properly securing our children in vehicles should not be overlooked. No journey is too short to ignore the possibility of an accident. It is, therefore, every parent's responsibility to ensure their child's safety when being driven.

Hanover NGOs provide free dental care - Healing the Children North East, a non-profit organisation based in the United States (US) partnered with The Tryall Fund in Sandy Bay and Kiwanis Club of Hopewell to sponsor a free, week-long dental- health clinic...

The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (CPSM) is a statutory body established under The Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act, 1965 and Regulations of 1974, with adjustments made to reflect changes in 1995 and 2005...

Acupuncture and weight loss - Good day, Dr Brown,I would like to know how acupuncture can assist with weight loss and where would I go for treatment.Good afternoon reader,Thank you for your question...

What's the big deal? So you turned 50 recently or you are well over 50 years! Do you feel that you are over the hill? Are you seeing declining life options or are you re-energised for more of life's journey?

A man in his late 50s wept uncontrollably.He had just disclosed in therapy that as a boy, living in rural Jamaica, he was forced to repeatedly have intercourse and perform other sexual acts with his older female relative...

Many couples look forward to the addition of one or more children to their family.However, in some cases, conception is a difficult process. Infertility is a condition of the reproductive system that prevents the conception of children...

There are no quick fixes when it comes to losing and maintaining healthy weight.Healthy weight is linked to how food is prepared, amount consumed and when consumed.

The effects of regular exercise on our body are similar to medications used to stimulate or sedate us, relieve pain and induce sleep, but minus the toxic side effects...