News – HSF – Barbados

Strokes occur either when a blood vessel becomes clogged thus hampering blood flow to the brain (ischemic stroke) or when a blood vessel ruptures causing [...]

Campaign Launch

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Champions for the Cause

Approximately 30 champions have been selected including Lead Champion, Professor Anne St. John and Youth Champions, Mr. Daniel Alleyne and Miss Ashley Lashley.

Childhood Obesity Prevention Conference: Collaborative Opportunities and Countermeasures

PAHO proclaims childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st Century.

Ischemic Heart Disease

Other risk factors are modifiable, being directly or indirectly under the control of the individual.

Angina Pectoris

The most common cause of the coronary artery narrowing which gives rise to angina is atherosclerosis. This is due to a gradual accumulation of fatty or [...]

Pulmonary Heart Disease

This is heart disease secondary to disorder of respiration. The chronic Hypoxia (low oxygen tension) of these disorders includes a reactive narrowing of the pulmonary [...]