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Mental Health Awareness Week was launched yesterday with the theme of dignity.
Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the acting health minister, addressed an audience at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute and highlighted the need to “consider the humanity in peo...
DATE: Oct 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
More than two dozen walkers and their dogs participated as “Team Bermuda Gold” for an international walking event to raise awareness and funds for research for TTP.
TTP is the acronym for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura, a rare autoimmune blood ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A free yoga therapy programme designed to benefit Bermuda’s seniors is being launched.
The four-month, one-on-one programme aims to demonstrate how yoga and yoga therapy counselling can help with some common health issues that affect our ageing popu...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages.
The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...
DATE: Aug 05, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Health Minister Jeanne Atherden believes nurses could be more involved when it comes to health policy and creating legislation.
Ms Atherden was responding to comments by Maxine Herbert-Watson, of the Bermuda Nurses Association, during the proclamatio...
DATE: May 20, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Representatives from the Caribbean Public Health Agency have been in Bermuda to help conduct data analysis from a survey with the purpose of tackling chronic diseases in Bermuda.
The Ministry for Health, Seniors and the Environment initiated the STE...
DATE: Mar 30, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Early childhood tooth decay is being tackled as part of Oral Health Month.
The Department of Health’s Oral Health section launched school-entry screening last year which focuses on the “decay experience” of children aged five or turning five.
This ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan