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Published:Monday | August 3, 2020 | 12:19 AMKaren Oliver/Gleaner Writer

A coma can leave both patient and despairing family in the dark. For some patients, the experience can be life-changing with transition to a persistent vegetative state. But emerging from unconsciousness and the recovery of most functions don’t...

Published:Wednesday | June 24, 2020 | 12:09 AMKaren Oliver/Gleaner Writer

PAMELA LAWSON, managing director of the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA), has said there has been a 30 to 40 per cent increase in the number of persons taking in sick animals to the veterinary clinic since the COVID-...

Published:Friday | May 29, 2020 | 12:32 AMKaren Oliver/Gleaner Writer

Eleven-year-old Rogeena Fearon of Charles Street, downtown Kingston, proves that she is a friend in good and bad times. When her friend, nine-year-old Preanka McFarlane, a grade-three student at Denham Town Primary School, lost her home in a fire...

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