The Health and Wellness Ministry will be implementing a National Salt Reduction Programme as part of ongoing measures to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs). On this week’s Healthline we explore the link between NCDs and salt.
On this week’s Healthline, we’re discussing how the inclusion of Lupus on the National Health Fund (NHF) card is providing some relief for persons with the condition.
To wrap up our series on Children’s Health, we’re discussing the differences between Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) today.
This year’s Child Month theme: Enable, encourage, include me, has the spotlight on Children with mental and physical challenges. As we continue our series, this week on Healthline we’re discussing mental disorders in children.
We’re focusing on children with physical and mental disabilities this Child Month. The theme for this year’s observance is “encourage, enable, include me” and on today’s edition of Healthline, we continue our discussion on down syndrome.
The Ministry of Health says it is monitoring the island for imported cases of measles in light of the recent increase in cases in the United States and across the region. On this week’s Healthline, we take a closer look at the disease known as measles.
China’s Bright Journey Medical Mission team is on their second visit to Jamaica. As part of the initiative, some 500 Jamaicans are to receive free cataract surgeries at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH).
March is being observed as International Nutrition Month, under the theme ‘Taking Responsibility for Assessing Our Nation’s Nutritional Needs. So in this week’s Healthline, we’re doing a mash-up with two of those. Today we discuss Kidney nutrition.
Chronic Kidney Disease is a progressive loss of Kidney function over time. It means the Kidneys are damaged, affecting their ability to filter waste and excess fluids from the blood. Chronic kidney disease can progress to end-stage kidney failure, which is fatal without artificial filtering, otherwise known as dialysis, or a kidney transplant.
It’s Kidney disease prevention month; how much do you really know about your kidneys? We’re discussing this vital organ on this week’s edition of Healthline.