Joanne Paul

I try at least to do a mixture of both medical and non-medical topics. I would hate to be pigeonholed into one field or one area on which to write.

There are pockets in life—ages, if you will—at which we are more prone to having mental health issues, triggered especially by multiple stressor factors, all at the same time. It

Greyscale is a range of colourless shades ranging from pure white to pure black. What is significant about it is the absence of colour. Unfortunately, it can be the term

Up to now I do not know where “Asus quesus” comes from. After checking on Google, the closest connection is a term from the Portuguese phrase “esos quesos” which means

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong”—a quote from American journalist HL Mencken. These days in Trinidad there are a few significant things

There is the common saying and meme, Trinidad is not a real place. Maybe the common saying should also be Trinbago is such a small place. We think we are

So, I hate going back to the Covid pandemic and looking at correlations. But in being a lecturer with The University of the West Indies, I am exposed to undergraduate

So, I hate to go back to the pandemic and its effects even three to five years down the line but the effects for some things are like ripples, initially

It is important to look at things directly, and holistically. But sometimes it is more impactful to look at the trends. The increasing trend over the past few years is

So, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, smoking and alcohol intoxication causing pathologies like strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure are huge issues in Trinbago and the rest of the Caribbean. They seemed