22 results returned for search: "" category "Health" author Tim Smith
Shadow Health Minister Michael Dunkley is calling for Government to reveal what stem cell regulations are in store as plans seemingly continue to treat desperately sick patients at the Brown-Darrell Clinic.
Three years have now passed since late Heal...
DATE: Feb 14, 2012
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography.
It comes after the American College of Radiology carried out a review on the facility’s ability to aid the early detection and diagnosis of breast di...
DATE: Nov 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Wealthy people should expect to do the humane thing and pay more for their healthcare, according to Health Minister Zane DeSilva.
The Minister suggested richer people will face higher premiums as Government searches for a way to ensure those on the p...
DATE: Nov 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The goal of healthy people in healthy communities is now hammered home in a mission statement for Bermuda’s National Health Plan.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva yesterday said the mission statement, added to the plan following a period of public consul...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A rise in mumps cases has prompted concern from Chief Medical Officer John Cann.
Several cases have been reported so far this year, compared to an average of less than one per year for the previous decade, according to a press release from the Depart...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Former Senate President Alf Oughton will receive this year’s Salute to Service Award from Bermuda Health Foundation.
Mr Oughton is being honoured for his community work, in particular for producing the Health Care Review Report in 1996 which made rec...
DATE: May 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda’s air ambulance has asked Bermuda Hospitals Board to put right comments it says imply it’s unsafe or incompetent.
Bermuda Air Medivac has called in Phoenix Law Chambers in response to BHB’s assertion it needs international certification to be...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda Hospitals Board yesterday called for the Island’s air ambulance to gain international certification so it can become the carrier of choice for all patients needing overseas treatment.
However, Bermuda Air Medivac (BAM) argued it could only ge...
DATE: Apr 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Some cardiac patients have to wait several hours for America-based air ambulances to fly them overseas for crucial treatment while Bermuda's vehicle sits idle in the St David's hangar.
Bermuda Air Medivac (BAM) vice president Eloise Bell says she's b...
DATE: Apr 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Doctors are hopeful the Ministry of Health's new guidelines on stem cells will bring the row over former Premier Ewart Brown's Winterhaven project to an end.
But as Government maintains its silence on the issue, Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
