SPECIAL ARTICLE

In order to balance economic considerations with efforts at preventing local transmission of COVID-19, some countries, including Barbados, have implemented RT-PCR testing to allow a waiver or shortening of the quarantine period. The timing of such a test may be...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BAMP EXECUTIVE

My congratulations to the BAMP Executive. Perhaps this letter will highlight some of the challenges you face from a historical perspective. I would like to make a few comments about BAMP, an organisation to which I have been paying annual subscriptions since 1987 till...

HYPERTENSION: ARE WE STILL UNDER PRESSURE?

In 1995, a study entitled the International Collaborative Study of Hypertension in Blacks (ICSHIB) was undertaken, using blood pressure cut-off measurement of 160/95 mmHg. A prevalence of over 21.5% was established for hypertension in adult Barbadians aged 25 years...

QUARANTINE AFTER TRAVEL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends 14 days of quarantine and symptoms monitoring following travel from another country where COVID-19 transmission is high or increasing ¹. Several other countries, including Canada and...