FOCUS ON HEALTH Sit less and move more Even with regular physical activity, older women (ages 50-79) who spend more waking hours in sedentary behaviors, such as sitting or lying down, have an increased risk of heart failure serious enough to require hospitalization, according to new research published last week in Circulation: Heart Failure. “For […]
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago — The Trinidad and Tobago government announced on Saturday a total ban on Christmas parties within the public sector, while also urging the private sector to do the same. The Government also announced a (TT)$30 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) initiative aimed at assisting persons who have lost their jobs, or have fallen […]
By David Jessop In the last few days, Pfizer BioNTech a German-US company, and the US company Moderna have separately announced that the COVID-19 vaccines they have been developing have proved 95 per cent effective. Both subsequently said that they will now apply to regulators to manufacture and roll out the vaccines. The two were […]
More than a dozen “unhoused” residents of Toronto received insulated foam structures on Sunday to help them get through the winter. The structures were built by a group of volunteers and “concerned residents” organized by ALAB Resource Clinic of Toronto. M.J. Cully, executive director of the clinic, told The Caribbean Camera that the group got […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH Cannabis strength soars, increasing risk of harm New research shows that over the past 50 years street cannabis across the world has become substantially stronger carrying an increased risk of harm. The team behind the study from the Addiction and Mental Health Group at the University of Bath, synthesized data from over […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH Study finds patients prefer doctors who share their same race/ethnicity Patients who shared the same racial or ethnic background as their physician were more likely to give the maximum patient rating score, according to a new analysis of 117,589 patient surveys from 2014 to 2017. The findings, from a team of Penn […]
A new University of Saskatchewan (USask) study has found that exercise performance and blood and muscle oxygen levels are not affected for healthy individuals wearing a face mask during strenuous workouts. Questions have been raised as to whether mask wearing during vigorous exercise might compromise oxygen uptake or increase the rebreathing of carbon dioxide, leading […]
TRAVEL New travel protocols for Trinidad and Tobago PORT OF SPAIN – The Trinidad and Tobago government announced on Saturday new protocols for entry into the country as it eased slightly some of the existing measures in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, speaking at a news […]
Toronto’s Youth Cabinet, the city’s official youth advisory body, with the support of more than a dozen education unions and advocacy groups, is calling for a ” total revision” of the province’s school curriculum. In a recent letter to Ontario’s Education Minster Stephen Leece, the youth cabinet noted that Black and Indigenous students ” continue […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH Smokers are more likely to die prematurely Current smokers faced nearly three times the risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease compared with people who never smoked, with the risk being higher among those who began smoking during childhood, according to new research published last week in the Journal of the American […]
