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By Vivian Giang and Aimee Groth From Business Insider
The ingredients you eat enter your blood stream and flow to the brain, so inevitably, the way you think, focus and work is literally the food you eat.
But you can increase this brain power by 20%, according to the World Health Organization.
“Food is like a pharmaceutical compound [...]
PAHO/WHO urges countries of the Americas to work toward 100% voluntary altruistic blood donation
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, D.C., 13 June 2013 (PAHO/WHO) – In Latin America and the Caribbean, only 41% of blood supplies are obtained through voluntary altruistic blood donation, the safest way to collect blood, according to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization [...]
UPDATE – From RCIPSÂ Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:55 AM
Water related death – Public Beach
An elderly man died yesterday morning after getting into difficulty whilst swimming off Public Beach.
About 10.55am on Thursday, police received a report that 81-year-old Louis Janvier DeBiase had lost consciousness whilst swimming near to Calico Jacks, Public Beach.
Mr.  DeBiase – a cruise ship visitor [...]
 UPDATED: Minister’s message on World Blood Donor Day:
By Hon. Osbourne Bodden, Minister of Health
Today is the 10th anniversary of World Blood Donor Day, a very important date in the healthcare calendar because the act of giving blood literally means giving the gift of life.
In fact, just a single unit of blood can save up to [...]
From Genetics Home Reference
Sickle cell disease is a group of disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. People with this disorder have atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent, shape.
Signs and symptoms of sickle [...]
Daily Mail UK, By Mark Nicol
A record number of wounded war veterans have been denied disability benefits in the past year after undergoing tests carried out by the Government’s controversial assessment company.
Hundreds of injured ex-soldiers are being declared fit for work by Atos Healthcare in spite of physical and mental injuries they suffered in the [...]
By Roni Caryn Rabin From New York Times
There is no question most skin cancers are related to sun exposure, yet even with sunscreen sales approaching $1 billion a year, skin cancer rates continue to climb. Melanoma diagnoses have risen nearly 2 percent a year since 2000 and are increasing even more among young white women.
Some [...]
The Public Health Department wishes to advise everyone that the Sickle Cell Support Group meeting will be held on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the HSA Public Health Waiting Room. Dr. Anna Matthews will lead the discussion. All are invited.
For further information, please contact Genetics Coordinator Joy Merren at phone 244-2630.
See also [...]
Thomas Wagner, Ph.D.
By Bill Poovey GSA Business
A Greenville biomedical researcher who has worked for years developing a radiation- and chemotherapy-free cancer treatment has opened a clinic in the Cayman Islands.
Thomas Wagner, Ph.D., said the offshore location is the best available option while the Food and Drug Administration decides if his treatment regimen will be approved [...]
Care2 Healthy Living Guest Blogger
A depression diagnosis does not have to be a life sentence. Often, it is a sign that our lives are out of balance and that we’re stuck. It is a wake-up call and, potentially, the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, a journey that can [...]
