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Industrial Hemp, medical marijuana to be explored at major Caribbean conference
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life The Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) says that industrial hemp and medical marijuana will be explored this week at a major Caribbean conference in Washington, D.C. The Washington D.C-based institute is urging the…
Physicists just discovered a second state of liquid water
By Bec Crew, ScienceAlert From Business Insider It’s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly 60 percent of the human body, and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have…
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Corals survived Caribbean climate change
SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes. Which ones survived? Scientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) think…
Humans are still evolving in some surprising ways
By Darren Curnoe, The Conversation From Business Insider It’s often said that through our innovations in science, agriculture and medicine humans have become masters of our biological destiny. That we’ve seized control of our evolution, eliminating most of the causes…
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Marijuana use has been linked with a dangerous heart condition
By Laura Beil, Science News From Business Insider NEW ORLEANS — Marijuana use is associated with an almost doubled risk of developing stress cardiomyopathy, a sudden life-threatening weakening of the heart muscle, according to a new study. Cannabis fans may…
Some people with Alzheimer’s seem to resist memory loss
By Sharon Begley, STAT From Business Insider The defective proteins that are widely thought to kill brain neurons and cause, or at least indicate,Alzheimer’s disease do not always have that calamitous result, scientists reported on Monday, raising more doubts about…
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Baptist Health International- Men’s Cancer Awareness Event on Grand Cayman
Men’s Cancer Awareness Evening & Lecture this Friday, November 18, 2016. This event will be hosted by Cayman Islands Cancer Society, Lions Club of Cayman Islands and Baptist Health International. Baptist Health South Florida is the largest healthcare organization in…
Hope for heart surgery patient at Cayman Islands Health City Hospital
From 7News Belize Almost three weeks ago, Tyron Coleman was flown to the Cayman Islands to undergo a cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. Coleman was diagnosed with coronary artery disease, which restricts blood flow to the heart. This left Coleman in urgent…
Guyanese in St Maarten receives life-saving pacemaker at Cayman Islands hospital
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Nov 13 2016 – Egland Arthur, a construction supervisor in St. Maarten, started experiencing shortness of breath while visiting Guyana earlier this year. When it was discovered he had very poor heart function, Arthur’s cardiologist recommended…
The truth about NCDs in the Caribbean: tackling the crisis
By Joan Tull From Healthy Caribbean November 14 was World Diabetes Day. The disease is having a devastating impact on the Caribbean, which has double global rates. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease cause the majority of premature deaths from non-communicable diseases…
