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Fundraising to cover the $40 million payout for the Island’s new hospital wing remains several million short of its goal, even though the facility’s completion is just days away.
However, the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has already covered the full...
DATE: Sep 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Residents are being urged to sign an online petition calling for better access to cervical cancer screening across the Caribbean region.
Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre is one of more than 40 non-government organisations from across the region supp...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A patient who suffered an agonising wait for surgery at the Island’s only hospital is being taken to the Privy Council by those he successfully sued for damages.
Bermuda Hospitals Board has opted to go to the Island’s highest court of appeal, in Lond...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Addicts are being urged to get treatment for substance abuse this month, which is National Recovery Month.
And Premier Michael Dunkley has pointed out that the wider community can play a vital role in supporting addicts on their road to recovery.
Gov...
DATE: Sep 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A surgical first for Bermuda could help a hospital patient paralysed from the neck down breathe on his own.
And that means the young man — who has been in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for several years after an accident and can only breathe ...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Department of Health has moved to allay fears that its free fluoride supplement programme for children could be axed.
Two sources, neither of whom would be named, told The Royal Gazette that the cost of the scheme came up at a recent meeting of h...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
When most high school seniors visit prospective colleges they might look at the campus, or the dorms or the library, Jade Belboda only has eyes for the science lab.
Miss Belboda, 17, a senior at Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, is this year’s ...
DATE: Aug 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Final preparations are under way at the hospital’s new acute care wing ahead of next month’s opening.
Staff training tours are being conducted and cleaning work is progressing ahead of a final clinical scrub-down in the coming weeks.
Bermuda Hospit...
DATE: Aug 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A patients’ group says the tragic case of young mother Latifa Maybury, who died from cancer after the disease went undetected throughout her pregnancy, gives “cause for serious concern” about some of the processes used by King Edward VII Memorial Hos...
DATE: Aug 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Health officials have confirmed that there have been no reported cases of the deadly Ebola virus on the Island, despite fears that the latest outbreak of the killer could spread globally.
The World Health Organisation has now declared the current epi...
DATE: Aug 09, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
