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From a young age Nurse Practitioner Myrian Balitian-Dill may have been destined to go into medicine.
She always enjoyed helping people and got satisfaction in seeing them get back to good health. It didn’t hurt that she was also born into a large fa...
DATE: Feb 13, 2014
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Health
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Government has kept quiet on plans to curtail high-cost diagnostic imaging — but the hospital has defended itself against claims by local physicians that it has been the main culprit for spiralling healthcare costs.
Pre-certification, which requires ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Naimah Frith may not be the only sufferer of Marfan syndrome in Bermuda — but she believes she is one of just a handful.
The 17-year-old was diagnosed with the life-threatening and rare disorder aged just two and has since had to grapple with a serie...
DATE: Feb 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
During childbirth, the birthing partner can be just as panicked as the woman giving birth.
“At my first birth my husband kept saying, ‘what do I do, what do I do’?” said mother-of-three Sophia Cannonier, a birth advocate and doula.
Luckily, a doula ...
DATE: Feb 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Healthy teeth will help to ensure “healthy smiles for a healthy future”.
That’s the message being relayed to students during February — Oral Health Month — which will see free screenings for schoolchildren.
The Oral Health Section of the Department o...
DATE: Feb 03, 2014
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Health
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The first in a series of four lectures designed to promote healthy hearts will be held tonight as a month of activities gets underway in recognition of Heart Month.
Sponsored by the Bermuda Heart Foundation, the Cardiac Resource Group will host four ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2014
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Health
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A mother-of-three in desperate need of an operation to help her eat again says she can’t afford the surgery.
Wanda Pedro claims she is fighting for her life after being diagnosed with a broken bone in her skull, caused by a car accident five years a...
DATE: Jan 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Local physicians are “overwhelmingly” opposed to a health plan imposed by Government to rein in unnecessary and expensive diagnostic testing.
The initiative, known as pre-certification, will force doctors to consult with insurance companies or other ...
DATE: Jan 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cannabis campaigner Alan Gordon has called on faster action to allow medical marijuana in Bermuda.
And as of yesterday afternoon, more than 370 people had signed an online petition to allow seriously ill Bermudians access to medical marijuana.
Mr Gor...
DATE: Jan 16, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Nearly 8,000 vaccinations to fight influenza have been administered in Bermuda by the Department of Health and private practitioners.
A spokeswoman for The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) said: “Approximately 29 percent (over 2,300 doses) we...
DATE: Jan 16, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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