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The Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados, invited Marie Beach, Department of Health, Healthy Schools Coordinator to participate in the “Beyond the Call to Action Event: Towards School Policies in support o...

A three-pronged threat from chronic health problems and an ageing population could lead to a leap in the number of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers, a British expert warned yesterday. Tim Forester-Morgan said diabetes, heart disease and an ageing popula...

The Department of Health is to contact local food suppliers after a large-scale outbreak of E. coli in the United States associated with romaine lettuce. Authorities in the US are trying to control a series of outbreaks. A Department of Health spokes...

The Health Visiting Team of the Department of Health invites postpartum mothers and their families to join the Movin’ Mommas walking group who meet every Tuesday morning at the Botanical Gardens Visitors Center at 10 am and lasts for approximately 45...

The views of organisations that commented on proposed reforms to healthcare financing are expected to be made public in the next few weeks. Kim Wilson, the health minister, told MPs a task force set up to review two options first presented six years ...

Hamilton Health Centre will reopen tomorrow after several weeks of building repairs. The clinic on the city’s Victoria Street has run a limited service since October after several floods and plumbing problems meant some services had to be moved else...

The Portuguese-speaking population is being targeted through a new diabetes education programme. The Bermuda Diabetes Association said it is providing the service because language barriers can make it difficult to promote awareness about the disease....

A nursery shut down after a 12-month-old boy suffered a serious head injury has filed an appeal against the Government’s closure order, a lawyer for the daycare centre said yesterday. Heavenly Blessings Nursery and Preschool was told to cease operati...

An overseas doctor is in Bermuda to discuss how healthcare professionals should handle tough topics with their patients. Christy Simpson, head of the bioethics department at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine in Canada, will give a series of...