Sean "Contractor" Edwards, principal of Contractor Music Marketing, is encouraging entertainers and other industry stakeholders to extend benevolence.
This comes after he aided the Issa Trust.
Dear Claudienne, I was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, where I was registered and my mother given a pink slip. She later applied for my birth certificate but when she went to .
I recall wanting to become a medical doctor since I was a child. My father (of blessed memory) used to remind me that, when I was six years old, I did not want any toys, but chose the Visible Man science project kit instead. It was a model of the.
MINUTES AFTER the 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Jamaica on Monday, people beset by panic and asthmatic attacks fled to Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) located in downtown Kingston. According to media reports, the situation was overwhelming for.
Objective To document the prevalence, clinical features, haematology and outcome of acute splenic sequestration (ASS) in homozygous sickle cell disease (HbSS).
Study design A cohort study from birth.
Setting The Medical Research Council Laboratories at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Patients 311 cases of HbSS detected during the screening of 100 000 deliveries at the main government maternity hospital between 1973 and 1981.
Interventions Long-term follow-up and free patient care focusing on ASS.
Main outcome measure Acute splenic sequestration.
Results There were 183 episodes of ASS in 105 patients representing 35% of the cohort. The median age for first event was 1.07 years. During ASS, median values for haemoglobin fell by 32 g/dL, reticulocytes increased by 8% and total nucleated cells increased by 10.5%. ASS recurred in 47 (45%) patients. Conservative therapy in 133 episodes of 85 patients was associated with five deaths and splenectomy in 20 patients