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Details on groundbreaking new research in genetic testing that makes it possible to predict with more accuracy the inherited predisposition to breast cancer will be the subject of a keynote address during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The presentati...
DATE: Oct 14, 2013
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The Island’s mentally challenged have all the space they need under the Government’s adult new day programme, according to the official in charge of the Orange Valley Centre.
Ten years ago, the centre was temporarily placed in its own wing of the Mid...
DATE: Oct 14, 2013
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An outbreak of drug-resistant bacteria that causes painful skin infections has been traced to a single worker at a particular Pembroke spa.
Government last night declined to name the facility, citing privacy reasons, but said the business had been cl...
DATE: Oct 14, 2013
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Drive-through anti-flu jabs will be available from Department of Health centres beginning next week.
The inoculations cost $10 per shot and are free for seniors.
The Flu Express is “a convenient ‘drive through’ way for persons ten years and older to...
DATE: Oct 10, 2013
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The Health Department is tracking an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant skin infections on the Island.
Chief Medical Officer Cheryl Peek-Ball said a single source for the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreak has been determined, ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2013
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Plastic surgeon Christopher Johnson plans to sue Bermuda Hospitals Board for more than a million dollars for allegedly reneging on a legal agreement reached earlier this year.
And he claims BHB misled taxpayers about the terms of the agreement by cl...
DATE: Oct 09, 2013
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Mental Health Awareness Week officially started today, with an opening ceremony at the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin launched the annual event which this year will focus on the mental health of older adults....
DATE: Oct 07, 2013
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Patients suffering from heart disease are having to visit private practices for essential stress tests following an equipment failure at Kind Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The hospital’s only stress test machine has been out of action for two weeks a...
DATE: Oct 05, 2013
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Efforts to curb the prevalence of non-communicable diseases will begin in earnest next month with the commencement of Bermuda’s first standardised national health survey.
Chronic, preventable diseases “contribute the greatest proportion of the total ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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Despite cases of breast cancer falling to “the lowest number recorded in years” in 2012, there is “no cause for celebration,” said Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin yesterday. Proclaiming the month of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, M...
DATE: Oct 02, 2013
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