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“Just remember, cancer has an uncanny way of knowing when you give in.”
This is what Robert Emmett was told when he arrived in London to start treatment of his stage-four bladder cancer.
The former Robin Hood Premier League player took the words of e...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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No medical services will be available for sick infants or children in the Department of Health’s Hamilton, Somerset and St George’s clinics this afternoon or tomorrow.
Routine preventive health and immunisation services will be available, according t...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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Doctors have branded a raft of reworked legislative proposals aimed at regulating healthcare providers as “heavy handed” and say that the reform measures unfairly target their profession.
The Bermuda Health Council recently published the proposed ch...
DATE: Nov 12, 2016
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With the advent of flu season, vaccines will be available starting today at the island’s health centres, as well as the offices of most physicians.
For those who wish to get their shots quickly, the Flu Express drive-through service is running at War...
DATE: Oct 31, 2016
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The healthy collaboration between the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute and WindReach has been documented for an international forum by Morrisa Rogers, an occupational therapist at MWI.
Her work has been published this month in the World Federation of ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2016
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Dementia is becoming a heavy burden on Bermuda’s growing elderly population, and does not spare veterans and their families who face limited options for care.
A case in point is veteran Herbert Tatem, 94, whose wife, Dorothy, finds herself too old to...
DATE: Oct 29, 2016
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Robin Hood Football Club is teaming up with Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre to help raise awareness of men’s health.
One of the main goals of the partnership is to reach a new audience that may not normally come into contact with the centre.
“Footba...
DATE: Oct 27, 2016
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Breast cancer survivor Pamela Dunkley urged participants in Thursday’s 20th anniversary BF&M Breast Cancer Awareness Walk to make mammograms a routine part of their life.
Mrs Dunkley, the patron of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, also encouraged the h...
DATE: Oct 22, 2016
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Gang members, sexual abuse victims and recovering addicts are among those who have been successfully treated through an equine therapy model that is making its way to Bermuda.
Two health professionals trained in the Eagala method visited the island ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2016
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
St George’s South MP Suzann Roberts-Holshouser is encouraging medical professionals to take advantage of “a golden opportunity” in the East End.
It comes after the Bermuda Hospitals Board announced that it was seeking ideas about how to optimise the...
DATE: Oct 18, 2016
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