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Common Spices May Help Diabetes

By DWNews Editor ⋅ October 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(WebMD Health News)
The spice cabinet may prove to be a source of help for diabetes patients. Study Shows Herbs and Spices May Help Block Inflammation.
Some of the most commonly used dried herbs and spices may help block the inflammation believed to drive diabetes and other chronic diseases, laboratory studies conducted by researchers from the University […]

Possible AIDS Vaccine in Five Years

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Jamaica Gleaner 27.JUL.08 - Written by:Keisha Shakespeare-Blackmore
DR Paul Sudhir, professor of pathology at The University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and his colleagues, think they might have found a potential preventative human immunovirus (HIV) vaccine, they disclose to The Sunday Gleaner in an exclusive interview.
Sudhir says this team is making headway in its research […]

Lad Make Local History

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

June.30.2008 — Lad Make Local History - A 12-year-old visually impaired boy defied his disability and created local history when he wrote the 2008 Grade 6 National Assessment Examination in Braille.
Loik Charles was the First student to have written an exam in Braille in Dominica. Not only did Loik write the examination but he passed […]

Dominican Nurses ask for hospital charges to be waived

By DWNews Editor ⋅ April 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Dominicanewsonline 11.APR.08
Nurses in Dominica have asked government to waive their hospital charges fees in an effort to motivate them, but they say so far no good.
“One of the areas that we have asked for an incentive over and over again is for nurses to be exempt from hospital fees,” said president of the Dominica Nurses […]

24-Week-Old Baby Was Delivered at Princess Margaret Hospital

By DWNews Editor ⋅ April 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Dominicanewsonline.com 10.APR.08
The efforts of medical officials are being praised after a 24-week-old baby was delivered at Dominica’s main health facility this week. Hospital Medical Director at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Dr. Kervin Ferreria said the work of staff must be commended for their efforts.
The premature baby was born Monday and was immediately flown to the […]

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