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An island-wide campaign has been launched to help people with asthma take control of the condition. Blue “quick reliever” asthma inhalers are being featured on 23 public buses and in newspaper advertisements to raise awareness. BHB asthma nurse edu...

An official guardian for vulnerable elderly people is high on the agenda, new Minister for Health Kim Wilson promised yesterday. Ms Wilson said an Office of the Public Guardian was on the cards and told a meeting “watch this space”. She added: “There...

Research has shown that a tax on sugary non-nutritious foods cuts consumption, according to Bermuda’s chief medical officer. Cheryl Peek-Ball told Hamilton Rotarians that a subsidy for locally grown fresh produce had also led to healthier diets in ma...

Two clinical nurse educators have become certified dementia independent trainers at the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Tamra Broadley and Marina Cann attended a two-day course in Duluth, Georgia, meaning the BHB can add the “Positive Approach to Care” meth...

The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will be closed this weekend due to a staffing shortage. The fast-track service at the Emergency Department at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will be extended to midnight to accommodate patients who would norma...

A proposed sugar tax should not concentrate on sodas, the head of an island soft drinks distributor said yesterday. Bruce Barritt, general manager of John Barritt & Son warned that a fresh tax on soft drinks could impact business and jobs. He said: ...

A tax on sugar introduced in Mexico in 2013 cut sales of sodas by 12 per cent — now the Bermuda Diabetes Association hopes a similar policy could do the same for Bermuda. It comes after the Throne Speech revealed that the Government would begin a con...

Bermuda Healthcare Services and Brown-Darrell Clinic will be hosting its quarterly “Docs for Dinner” event at Café Lido tomorrow. The guest speaker is Jay Alexander Graham, an abdominal transplant surgeon in the Bronx at Montefiore Medical Centre, wh...

Waleed Lightbourne always wanted to be a nurse. His mother worked as a nurses’ aide for more than four decades and the love and care she showed her patients inspired him. As the first male graduate of the Bermuda College’s Associate Degree in Nursi...

Services will be interrupted at Hamilton Health Centre on Victoria Street on Thursday afternoon. The Department of Health team will be off site between noon and 4.30pm, receiving training to combat the rise in obesity and diabetes. Offices will remai...