Dietary Treatment for Crohn’s Disease
By Dr. Michael Greger Inflammation has recently emerged as an important player in the development of age-related disability and many of our major chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. Now that laboratory tests such as C-reactive…
Worried It’s Alzheimer’s? 8 Symptoms to Watch For
Applying the word “Alzheimer’s” to your parent can be uncomfortable, even if the signs, or symptoms, have been adding up for some time. It’s much easier to gloss over strange behavior: “Oh, Mom’s just getting older.”Or to rationalize: “Well, we…
Brown babies need sunscreen. In the Cayman Islands, too! by Heather Hopson
Because of my daughter’s small size, my sister nicknamed her Bean. When she pulls the laundry—that took an hour to fold—out of the basket, I call her a Bad Bean. When she hits her cousins in the face, I tell…
Eliminating Dengue
From Eliminatedengue.com In August last year, leading scientific journal Nature published two papers by Eliminate Dengue Program members that described the results from our work in the lab and thefirst open field trials of the Wolbachia method conducted in far…
Aloe Vera the gem of the folk medicines
The Aloe vera plant is an African succulent that is popular in folk remedies. Today, you can find Aloe vera outside Africa since it is a popular garden plant, especially in dry areas where gardens must be created with the…
Cayman Islands hospital upgrades MRI service
As a result of a public private partnership, the George Town’s hospital’s MRI services have been temporarily upgraded with the installation of a 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This is only the first step however, of a two-step process…
Mystery illness in Cambodia solved, doctors say
The cause of a mysterious illness that has claimed the lives of more than 60 Cambodian children has been determined, medical doctors familiar with the investigation told CNN on Wednesday. A combination of pathogens, disease-causing micro-organisms, is to blame for…
Anxiety and violence
Coping with anxiety is something that most people have probably dealt with at some point in their lives. Being nervous and twitchy about something is a natural reaction, particularly in a world of lawsuits, divorce papers, terrorist threats, and Orwellian…
Cayman Islanders and Russians go to Ft. Lauderdale for their cosmetic dentistry
Miami cosmetic dentist Dr. Charles Nottingham and his staff at Smile South Florida have recently seen a surge in the number of patients from abroad. “The countries we see the most patients from are the Bahamas, Bermuda, Curacao, Grand Cayman,…
Insight: Dengue vaccine in sight, after 70 years
One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue, the intensely painful “breakbone fever” which that conflict helped spread around the world, may be in sight….
